Computers and I have not gotten on well today. I just lost the image for this post and will have to up load it form home later. The Blogger editor is/was acting up and deleted it when I tried to move it. The various computers I used today at home earlier and at work have dropped the Internet connection and needed rebooting. It is a tech world conspiracy to make me even less efficient than my usual self.
I have a  new painting to show in the every growing bar code series..
















Willamette Valley Clouds, Sunset  18x18 Mixed Media

I will be getting organized and packed for the the first out door show of the year, The Saratoga Rotary Art Fair in California. It is in it's 50 something year on May 2 south and east of San Francisco. The rest of my summer is up in the air as I am wait listed for several of the larger shows here in the west including Salem and  Art in the Pearl.
Wish me luck and let me know what you think of the painting  or any other topic.

April 16th was the opening night reception for new work accepted by the gallery.
It is always a festive event with artists, volunteers, and art patrons scoping everything out.
Here I am under one of my paintings Autumn Reflections at the top:









Bruce Ulrich with painting Autumn Reflections
Acrylic on Canvas 4'x4'.



Here is fellow artist and friend Linda Rothschild-Ollis with her painting in the same color key.














Linda Rothschild-Ollis with her painting of Fruits and Glass




Thanks Linda for taking the photo of me and  a special than you to Jennifer and her staff of wonderful volunteers who make the Rental Sales Gallery such a success for all the artists and the Portland Art Museum.
Thank you for looking and feel free to share this with your friends.

Sunrise Willamette Valley by Bruce Ulrich 2010


                                                        
This painting will be in the Watercolor Society of Oregon spring show opening in Gold Beach this Saturday, April 10.  I have a 25% chance of receiving an award since  20 of the 80 selected paintings are so honored. If i remember rightlly there were over 350 paintings submitted to the juror. Here is how I framed the painting as a vertical 24x20.










Matted  24x20  of Sunrise Willamette Valley
the painting is 10x10


I liked the black background since the mat had to be white or off white for this show..
This is the way I present most of the painting I have done on paper that are square. It is easier for people to find standard size rectangular frames for the matted work I offer at art shows.

I started this post in the middle of last  week and my HP laptop developed the blue screen of death; trying, not yet successfully, to solve this issue has taken up much of my computing time.
I was able to remove my documents and I am waiting on restore disks for  the company.

The Watercolor Society of Oregon Spring show opened on Saturday in Gold Beach Oregon and alas I heard from a friend that this painting was not among the 20 awarded works.
It is still good to be chosen for the show by the juror Stephen Quiller.
Let me know what you think about the matting choice or anything else and thank you for looking.

Once again I let life get in the way of posting updates and information here. I did spring cleaning and reorganization of the studio for a wine tasting a friend ran. It is good have a clean space to start messing up. This month has also been busy working out of the studio in my other field, so starts are plentiful but paintings to show are few.

You would be wise not to finish a painting. Wayne Thiebaud

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. Willem

de Kooning

DEGAS SAID OF WHISTLER ' HE DRAWS BY DISTANCES AND NOT BY THICKNESSES

 

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

"Beauty alone makes all the world happy, and every being forgets its limitations as long as it experiences her enchantment."

Friedrich von Schiller

"Repartee is what you wish you'd said."

Heywood Broun

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

Ray Bradbury

 

 

"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon."

Peter Lynch

 

I hope you enjoyed these quotes and feel free to share them with your friends'

Thanks for looking.