Husk Restaurant located in Charleston, SC is quite a fabulous place to visit. The atmosphere is beautiful and elegant, the food is local and fresh. This is one of Sean Brock’s restaurants (an amazing chef)! Husk has opened a location in Nashville, TN and coming soon to Savannah, GA and Greenville, SC.
The menu changes daily, take a peek!
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Lyn Boyer. Dramatic paintings. They catch your eye – Stunning! How wonderful is the shadow AND the light on this building? Great mountains in the background and shadows in the foreground… this is just beautiful! It is also… Sold.
Another wonderful painting. This longhorn looks deep in thought, with the wonderful clouds swirling behind… I love the color in the sky on the bottom right hand side above the horizon. Wow!
Read a bit about Lyn, from her website:
After returning from studying art in Melbourne, Australia, Lyn began a 25 year career as an American illustrator garnering awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Art Director’s Club, the Illustrators Workshops, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Dennos Museum, among others. Her clients have included – The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, Discover Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Book of the Month Club, Julliard, AT&T, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, World Book, World Vision, MCI, Kellog, Herman Miller, Proctor & Gamble, Zondervan, Baker Bookhouse… Lyn brings to her work the heart of a painter and the developed eye of an illustrator. She lives in Durango, Colorado devoting her time to capturing the nuances of the West – capturing a sense of place. Lyn accepts a limited number of students for individual or small group instruction and also continues her career as an illustrator.
All images via LynBoyer.WordPress.com, used with permission…
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A photo of Monhegan, Maine from the archives today. Freedom of flight. A magical place indeed!
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The canal was calm, nothing stirring. No breeze or current. The reflections were like looking into a mirror. Calm, serene, beautiful.
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Enough said!
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Fresh, ripe, wonderful tomatoes really should not be classified as a “little thing”. The fresh taste is big, Big, BIG! It makes every recipe you make even more wonderful than it normally is.
Always be on the lookout for the little things in life – they create an abundance of happiness!
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Really, is there anything better than floating in a pool, looking up at the sky? I think not. If by chance you have a worry, I think this will help to relax and give you a new perspective. Try it!
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When life gets busy, confusing, happy, sad, or if ever you feel overwhelmed. Just remember this quote.
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Happy 4th of July, otherwise known as Independence Day!
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We’ve got quite a few hydrangeas and I swear they glow in certain light. It’s amazing. I love how this (very old) daylily popped up next to the hydrangea. The color combination (hard to tell here) was stunning!
Do you have hydrangeas? What color do you prefer? Do you add anything to your soil to try to get the color to change? Ours are this purply blue color and I love them!
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It’s so easy to eat fresh ingredients in the spring and summer. I love that! This was a quick dinner of grilled chicken cutlets, butter beans from Boone Hall Farms, radicchio salad (a favorite) and cucumbers in Greek yogurt with dill and cider vinegar. On the side is a beautiful (and tasty) bowl of sliced tomatoes.
Can it get any better?
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Colin Page. His paintings are recognizable from a distance. He really doesn’t even need a signature, you can look at it and say WOW! COLIN! There are so many fabulous paintings to chose from it boggles the mind. The Apple Tree is so wonderful, I love how the children are playing, the dramatic tree, fabulous sky, tree shadows, and the girl reaching for the cat. Stunning work. As always!
I love Colin’s tablescapes. I love every one of them. This one is so unexpected. I’ve seen other skull paintings of his and they were remarkable as well, but this skull on top of the table with flowers is stunning.
If you are in the Rockland, Maine area, do not miss his show at Dowling Walsh Gallery!
Opening Reception, First Friday, July 1, 2016 from 5-8pm (TONIGHT!)
Read more about Colin, and see more work from this show HERE.
Colin has a fabulous website as well, be sure to check it out – don’t miss his journal, it’s full of great information!
Are you an experienced artist looking to take a workshop? I see that Colin has a workshop coming up in September – it looks AMAZING! Check out the details HERE!
All images via DowlingWalsh.com, used with permission…
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Today’s featured artist is Kevin Beers. Many know Kevin as an artist that primarily paints Monhegan Island, Maine. Gorgeous paintings. Many of them are very large plein air (painted outdoors). Kevin and his wife Amy has recently moved to Maine, and Kevin has painted some wonderful spots around where he lives, so be sure to check out those paintings!
Dory in the Shadows has such an elegance to it, doesn’t it? The simple curves of the dory – the light on the grass – the light on the dormers – beautiful!
If you’re in the Boothbay Harbor area, be sure to check out Kevin’s show!
Here is the show information from Gleason Fine Art:
KEVIN BEERS: The View from Here
Paintings of Monhegan and the mainland by the popular landscape artist who made the move to become a full-time Mainer last year.
Reception: First Friday, July 1, 5 to 7 pm
For Kevin Beers’s 2016 summer show, his 15th solo show with the gallery, Kevin has not only given the gallery more than a dozen of the elegiac Monhegan Island landscapes and panoramas for which he is famous, but also a half-dozen dazzling paintings of Pemaquid in both full sunlight and at sunset, paintings of Thomaston’s “painted ladies” (fancy Victorian mansions), paintings of Hendricks Head and Kitten Island on Southport, and a pair of his majestic truck portraits.
Read a bit about Kevin, from Gleason Fine Art’s website – what a great bio!:
In the Fall of 2014, Kevin Beers did something he had long dreamed of doing—he packed up his Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment and moved to Maine to become a full-time resident. Beers and his wife Amy rented the Rockland home of a Monhegan friend and spent the winter of 2014-2015 hunting for their dream house. They found it on a Thomaston side street—an antique white farmhouse with a barn big enough for two studios.
For his 2015 summer show, Beers has given the gallery not only his typical Monhegan Island panoramas and landscapes but also a half dozen sparkling winter paintings done on site in Rockland as well as several dazzling sunset views of Pemaquid. For Beers’ many fans of his truck and car paintings, this year’s show contains a special treat—“Stars and Stripes,” a majestic rendition of a familiar Rte. 90 sight, an old truck painted with red, white, and blue stars and stripes.
In mid-July, Beers heads out to his beloved Monhegan Island once again, but come fall, instead of facing the 7-hour drive back to Brooklyn, he will step off the ferry, drive less than half an hour, and be home—Maine at last!
All images via GleasonFineArt.com , used with permission…
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Jean-Pierre Jacquet. I know I’ve mentioned before… that I love darkness in paintings, especially near an area with light. It makes the painting more dramatic. I love these trees (and their shadows), they have such life, and you only see a small portion of them!
Interior paintings are so fabulous, yet you don’t see many of them. Is there anything better than a painting within a painting (or in this case, several paintings)!? Jean-Pierre is an interesting guy (from what I’ve read), with great paintings, be sure to check out his work!
Read a bit about Jean-Pierre, from his website:
I am a French-American painter. And an occasional film animator (some of my film animation work is viewable at http://www.jeanpierrejacquet.com). For many years, it was the other way around. I devote most of my painting activities to “plein air” painting, or, as the French say, “peinture sur le motif”, i.e on the spot painting.
I like to paint what I see, rather than what I know, and try to uncover the hidden designs in my subject matters, be it straight nature scenes or urban landscapes. I am partial to free and bold brushstrokes which help me keep a certain sketchiness to my paintings.
My influences are eclectic so I will spare you a useless enumeration.
Under the Awards & Distinctions portion of Jean-Pierre’s About the Artist page is this, a sense of humor, I love it!:
I am not dead yet but 2 of my films are part of 2 museums: Flagrant Délit is part of the MoMA in NYC, and Contrapunto is part of the Tanz Museum in Düsseldorf in Germany.
Continue reading HERE…
All images via JPJacquet.com, used with permission…
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Do you ever get in a rut? Eating the same lunches… do you need something different? I have an idea!
Tomatoes are so good right now, and my basil is thriving, so I thought, hmmmm, what to make for a quick lunch! I picked up some Ciabatta rolls at Trader Joe’s – popped them in the oven until they got nice and warm. Then I added sliced tomato (oh! ah!), sliced fresh mozzarella, leaves of basil, then I drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette, slapped on the top half of the roll and tada! Lunch is served!
What do you make when you get in a rut? Something different! Let me know!
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