tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37171816506443509172024-02-07T19:47:28.540-08:00Catherine Mackey Art NewsA San Francisco Based Painter Specializing in the Urban EnvironmentCatherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-44999888031141225872017-03-30T19:40:00.000-07:002017-03-30T19:43:14.635-07:00My studio is tidy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><a href="http://missionartists.org/openstudios" target="_blank">More information on artists showing at 1890 and in the neighborhood. </a></u></span></div>
Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-20025993527271227292017-02-09T22:27:00.000-08:002017-02-09T22:30:49.635-08:00The difficulties of escaping a creative pigeonhole while still keeping the lights on.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">As you all probably
know – I paint architecture and the urban environment. I started to paint twenty
years ago and, as I developed my skills and gained a following, I was painting
demolition sites, buildings, walls, doorways, graffiti and signage. I was
earning money, but not enough to support myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Previously a couple of
paintings of San Francisco piers had sold quickly so I did some
more. They sold. I did some more. They sold too. Piers became the predominant
subject matter of my total creative output, my vendors “encouraging” me to do
more because they sold easily. At some point that encouragement turned into a resistance
to other types of work, mostly delivered with discreet hints but sometimes with
clear requests. I found that by creating a demand for pier paintings I had reduced
my vendor’s willingness to show other work. They too have bills to pay and the
desire for the easy sell is understandable. I love painting piers but I started
to feel constrained by their popularity. The creative urge to explore new
things is hard to ignore and I believe that a pigeonhole, or formula, sounds the
death knell for an artist’s development. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The idea</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> that I divide my time between piers and other work sounds sensible, but my creative process is labor-intensive and
slow, whatever the subject matter, and a large painting can take up to a month
to complete. Those lights cost money! When I did the math I thought that the only way I could afford to
do both would be if I decided to forego sleep and any kind of personal life! That
is…until I could find buyers for my “other” work.</span></div>
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started to improve: In the past couple of years I risked spending some time
away from money-earning piers to work on a series of architectural interiors. I
also completed a collection of paintings depicting old sinks at Alcatraz. And
there were sales! Not through the galleries or dealers who represent me but to
the San Francisco art-loving public who came to my work space during two Open Studio
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Heartened by
this I allowed myself total “studio playtime” during December and January to
explore the interaction between paint and collage. While many of my friends
were spending the holidays overseas I was in my studio cutting up old street
posters – and having a ball! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now the
really good news: I submitted this new work to </span><a href="https://www.artspan.org/home" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Artspan</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> for their annual
Selections </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Gala and exhibition. I was one of the ten artists selected and two
of the three pieces accepted were the result of my holiday playtime. This has
given my creative morale an enormous boost! I now have the confidence that,
financially, I can afford to spend more of my time exploring.</span></div>
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presented at Fort Winfield Scott in the Presidio of San
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curated by Cheryl Haines of
FOR-SITE Foundation, the show brings together 18 contemporary artists from all
over the world whose work explores the themes of identity, fear, exclusion,
surveillance, and displacement in our unstable world. The military setting
overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge adds to the impact of
the art, its messages and questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every single piece of art I saw was visually and conceptually arresting. One frightened me, and another reduced me to tears. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But because I love drawing my blog pick for today is: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Concourse by </i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tirtzah Bassel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon entering the formal gardens I was faced with a collection of strange bronze animal-head sculptures around a traditional ornamental pond in which floated an enormous lily-pad made of life jackets. Something was up! The frisson between the refined architectural backdrop and the brutality of the life-jackets was exciting. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ai Weiwei was in town and h</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">is installation, <a href="http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/ai-weiwei-transforms-vienna/" target="_blank">"Translocation - Transformation"</a> was occupying several spaces in and around the main buildings.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> My expectations of a calm morning were quickly adjusted.</span></div>
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trails between Squaw Valley and Auburn CA. I was surrounded by horses and I had
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Y</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">et…. when in Morocco two years ago I came face to face
with camels – literally – and really enjoyed sketching them. And, if I may say
so, I don’t think the results are too bad.</span><br />
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more difficult for me to draw than the camel, a strange-looking creature not
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ranch and rode Arabians daily and she confirmed that she too finds horses
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of figure drawing and I admit to struggling with beautiful models.) Do we pay
more attention to seeing those things with which we are not familiar? Does the
beauty of a horse lie in subtle proportions much harder to capture than the
camel’s bumpy pre-historic weirdness? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve been to local galleries, art fairs and art museums recently and have seen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> successful artists who work quickly and sell healthily. I scold myself for only producing 15-20 paintings a year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like what I do, but it takes a long time.</span></div>
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to my panel (see photo) when it hits me: I’m
spending a lot of time on the layers which eventually get obscured. Making a living is hard. If I cut my process
time I would produce more. Couldn’t I just gesso the panel and get straight to
the final image? Or perhaps get an assistant to do the under-layers while I
paint the final layer? I have been having this argument with myself for a while. </span></div>
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layer.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Each layer feels like a piece of art in its own
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> I have a lot of fun building the layers. I feel
like I am “growing” the painting. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> The viewer gets little hints, but only I know
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the crown of San Francisco’s artist community. Over the last eight years, as my
work has developed, the neighborhood and the building have changed too. This corner of the Mission district now accommodates Heath
Ceramics, fashion designers, small businesses, and a host of new restaurants
and bars; while the building, though still scruffy on the outside, now boasts elevators
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building’s painfully slow metamorphosis its tenants had to put up with working
in what was essentially a building site. Dust, noise, piles of building
materials, asphalt-stained water pouring through ceilings, no elevators - all part of our daily life. It was hard and
many of us grumbled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walls and I get excited about spaces in a state of change - scars left behind
hinting at things ripped out. I started to go into the building on Sundays and sketch
quiet corners which seemed to be taking a breath between the noise and chaos of
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Theater, now the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, in San Francisco. Built in 1916 and
remodeled in the Art Deco style in the 1930’s, it closed down in the 80’s and
has been dark ever since. Here’s me in the fabulous lobby on the very fabulous
carpet, smiling because I was remembering the last time I was in there – in the
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explored the neighborhoods and was drawn to abandoned buildings with architectural
merit and a story to tell. I discovered the New Mission Theater on Mission
Street, the entrance shuttered and the 70 ft tall marquee shedding its paint and
neon. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I painted the marquis. Each letter had its own canvas and there were eight panels in all. It wasn’t until I placed them together that
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show the painting which was so tall it reached through the lighting grid! It sold
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Mission (still have it) and a contact who was friendly with the owner of the
building. I had heard rumors that it was going to be knocked down for redevelopment
and I was desperate to see what remained of the interior. After several
attempts I persuaded the owner to give me access. I didn’t realize that he
would let me in, pull down the shutter, and tell me to call him when I wanted
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and the sound would bounce down the lobby, around the auditorium and end up as
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Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-49781726158021947122015-11-03T21:58:00.000-08:002015-11-03T21:58:29.284-08:00Small Rooftop Paintings<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because I always paint from my own experience (with the help of sketches and photos) each space has a personal story for me and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd like to share a few of those stories here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Several years ago, while visiting artists' studios in the American Industrial Building in San Francisco, I got lost while looking for the exit and stumbled upon this loading dock. The light coming through the upper window created a cathedral-like atmosphere and the Orange traffic cone was a jewel sparkling amidst planes of concrete.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I have walked the length of the Embarcadero in San Francisco many times but only noticed this scene when I was looking for the entrance to the <a href="http://pier24.org/about/" target="_blank">Pilara photography collection</a> in Pier 24.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The building in which I have my art studio has been under construction for many years, and the works continue. On weekdays there are workers everywhere and it can get pretty noisy. But at weekends everything is still. Late last year I started to go to the building on Sundays and I would walk around looking at the half-finished projects. I've always loved the colors of old plywood and the Green backing on sheetrock so I was in heaven when I discovered an old sofa and a coffee table positioned in a place where I could sketch in undisturbed comfort. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Exploring the old Jewish quarter a friend and I found an enormous old produce market which was empty except for a few vegetable stalls. The space was stunning. Sunlight poured through circular lights in domes supported by high arches. It felt almost religious. I wouldn't have been surprised to find banks of votive candles but all I got was a motorbike and some carrots.</i></span><br />
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presented at her solo show “Patterns in the City” in New York in 2013 (Stricoff
Fine Art). Only this time, instead of using her work to remind the viewer of
the beauty of things seen every day, she is showing us what remains mostly
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image is allowed to emerge. In this new body of work every painting contains
fragments of posters appropriated from the streets of Manhattan within the last
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stricoff.com/" target="_blank">gallery in </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stricoff.com/" target="_blank">Chelsea</a>. It just so happens that this coming weekend my studio </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So... if you can't get to New York in May come to my studio in San Francisco </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a glass of wine and a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preview of the new pieces.</span></div>
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requested that I do a large pier painting for their inventory. I spent three
weeks working on the piece and was pleased with the result. So when the gallery
told me they couldn't accept it because it was too Yellow I was surprised and
disappointed. To be precise, I was told that they found it difficult to sell
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what is it about Yellow? Many years ago a gallery owner in New York
told me “Don’t paint Yellow – it doesn't sell”. Soon afterwards I painted a Yellow
piece and it sold – very quickly - so I dismissed the rule. But here it is
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem isn't that the painting has been shown and remains
unsold. It’s that the gallery owner, who sells many of my pieces very quickly,
is nervous about the color because she assumes that her clients won’t like it.
So now her clients won’t get the chance to see it and, consequently, won’t
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told this story to an artist friend who
immediately asked me if I could put a white “wash” over it. That surprised and
saddened me. Should I paint what I know will sell easily? Or should I expect my
representatives to take a leap of faith and try something slightly different
every now and again? It’s that never-ending quandary: Do we allow financial
imperative to influence our work? The short term gain (paying the rent!) is
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Laguna Beach loves the piece and wants to include it in their summer show. So perhaps
Yellow is just a little too brash for the subdued palettes of San Francisco and
New York but perfectly fine for sunnier Southern California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As many of you will be aware, I have my art studio at 1890 Bryant Street in San Francisco - the old Best Foods mayonnaise factory. The building has been a work in progress since I moved in in 2007 with a new floor of studios being built on the roof. The downside of all this has been noise and other inconveniences. The upside, as far as I am concerned, is that I get to wander around the working areas, looking at piles of building materials, holes in walls, and new elevator shafts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this year I started to work on some paintings of my favorite spaces in the building. I have just finished a diptych of the loading bays beneath my studio. Below are the stages the piece went through:</span><br />
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Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-81630620311630489342014-10-27T22:33:00.000-07:002014-10-27T22:35:00.612-07:00Fall Open Studios<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's that time again. The leaves are turning, the clocks are about to go back, and there are people on the streets in funny costumes - it's time for my Open Studio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come and enjoy the delights on offer by the artists of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://1890bryant.com/artists" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">1890 Bryant Street</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. And don't forget to visit me in studio # 204. This year I have many small affordable pieces and will even be selling sketches straight out of my Morocco Travels 2014 sketchbook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for that extra creative experience put </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on your Halloween costume and join me for some pumpkin carving at the Friday night preview.</span>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-54452344828622689702014-10-08T13:05:00.003-07:002014-10-08T13:05:41.474-07:00Pier 26 (South side)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Pier 26 (South Side)</i></b> is one of my paintings which will be on view at <a href="http://www.artsvfair.com/" target="_blank">this weekend's Art Silicon Valley art fair.</a> See them at booth # SV26.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e69138;">Monday:</span></b> In my studio. Working on a layout for a future painting (diptych) of the loading bays at 1890 Bryant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Tuesday:</b> </span>Heard from my local art dealer that she will be showing my work at the <a href="http://www.artsvfair.com/#home" target="_blank">Art Silicon Valley</a> art fair in October. I now have to create a large pier piece for the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e69138;">Wednesday:</span></b> Took a bike ride. Not art I know, but re-charging my creative batteries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Thursday:</b> </span>Finished my painting for the City Streets show at <a href="http://www.studiogallerysf.com/" target="_blank">Studio Gallery</a> which opens on September 4th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Sunday:</b> </span>First day of a two-day trace-monotype class. I drew from a sketch I did in 2012 of boat-building in Essaouira, Morocco.</span>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-80141664785988704782014-08-01T14:46:00.000-07:002014-08-01T14:46:14.215-07:00Revealing the Landscape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">featuring twenty seven local artists, in their lovely gallery on campus in Moraga, CA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am very excited to have four paintings in the show and am impressed by the curator's interpretation of the word "<i>landscape</i>" to include the urban scenes for which I am known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the paintings began with a collage of street posters. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past, when I have painted over the collage, I have left only small glimpses of color and text showing to enliven the painting and offer unexpected discoveries to the persistent viewer. With some of these new paintings I have allowed larger areas of poster to remain uncovered as the water effect breaks up. I'm enjoying the play between the two layers of imagery which pulls the viewing focus back and forth and reminds the viewer that it is, after all, just paper and paint.</span><br />
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</a>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-66177952425119018602014-06-23T14:42:00.000-07:002014-06-23T14:42:34.399-07:00Morocco Travel Journal 2014<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The story of my recent trip to Morocco, told in sketches:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two days in Marrakech:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then my travel companions and I set off on a three-day driving adventure to Guelmim before joining a drawing group in Essaouira. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day One - Marrakech to Taroudant over the High Atlas:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day two - Taroudant to Guelmim:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After our arrival in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast we had six whole days to draw and have fun:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Port of Essaouira - from the sea wall.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The old jewish district in the North West corner of the medina.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">View from Cafe Glacier towards the mosque. <br />(This was done on a pre-prepared page with Moroccan<br /> newspaper and sprayed henna design.) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Drawn from the back of my moving camel:<br />team leader Diane on her trusty steed. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Another view of the fishing net action: the nets are being <br />carefully pulled over the winch and stacked.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Looking down from the raised sea wall: fishermen hook <br />the bait for the next voyage.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Moroccan tea. The strange padded figure is in fact a<br />heat-mitten for the hot handle of the tea pot. Drawn on<br />paper used for wrapping large cones of solid sugar.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A camel sticker, purchased from a stationery store in <br />the medina, applied to a piece of vintage wallpaper <br />pre-pasted into my sketchbook.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-45010111145360780542014-05-23T23:07:00.000-07:002014-05-23T23:07:45.560-07:00Moroccan Updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately the tablet I will be travelling with does not seem to like Blogger.com and will not upload images. So to see my daily sketches you will have to view my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/catherinemackeystudios" target="_blank">Catherine Mackey Studios</a> page on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be sure to post a selection of my work here on my return so watch this space!</span>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717181650644350917.post-45122142956450233782014-05-22T22:28:00.000-07:002014-05-22T22:31:46.831-07:00Preparing for my Moroccan drawing trip.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm leaving for Morocco soon. It's two years since I last visited and I'm really looking forward to joining a group of artists in the coastal town of Essaouira for a week of sketchbook work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My packing is mainly working out which art materials to take with me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm having some fun prepping one of my sketchbooks with collage and washes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/catherinemackeystudios" target="_blank">Click here</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to see my sketches and photos on my Studio Facebook page from May 28th. </span>Catherine Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15592609337868593577noreply@blogger.com0