tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248108962024-02-28T14:45:33.971-08:00Debra Clemente's - art thoughtsMaking art is a very private thing for me which has it's good and bad points. I have found comfort and solace in the words of other artists as they describe their struggles to get what is in their heads out of their head and onto a canvas or out of a ball of clay. Maybe my words will help another, or maybe just getting them out will help me.artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-66389367620280099992011-06-17T12:26:00.000-07:002011-06-17T12:32:40.686-07:00NOW SHOWING<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4s_TlC2POih2-gFlO3bguba1x9MKbT3D3Ev-AWDAaU0lpOJXE6UHZhdVcimWl99pIpe4yHhpDaklJRXM6lyMVPEW6q1Vmk6b2qMQ6xernrpE5M24Ph77KJz_jg_zUKX7zFAPzqA/s1600/Pachamamas_Debra_Clemente_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4s_TlC2POih2-gFlO3bguba1x9MKbT3D3Ev-AWDAaU0lpOJXE6UHZhdVcimWl99pIpe4yHhpDaklJRXM6lyMVPEW6q1Vmk6b2qMQ6xernrpE5M24Ph77KJz_jg_zUKX7zFAPzqA/s640/Pachamamas_Debra_Clemente_.jpg" width="640px" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have 28 paintings on view and for sale at <strong>Pachamama's</strong> a fabulous dining and drinking establishment in downtown Lawrence. I'll be present at the exhibit next Friday evening during Lawrence's Final Fridays event. This is some WOW STUFF - I am proud to say. </span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">Come see me and meet what I do.</span></strong></em></span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Final Fridays are from 5 - 8 </span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(many venues open later) </span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the last Friday of every month. </span></strong></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Final Fridays gallery walk to be held in downtown Lawrence on the last Friday of every month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">With over a dozen commercial galleries and numerous retailers, restaurants and even empty store fronts, downtown Lawrence comes alive for Final Fridays. Over 35 locations participate with visual art, fine craft art, performances and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Downtown Lawrence Arts District is a collaborative effort by the Lawrence Arts Center, Downtown Lawrence, Inc., the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">With over a dozen commercial galleries and numerous retailers, restaurants and even empty store fronts, downtown Lawrence comes alive for Final Fridays. Over 35 locations participate with visual art, fine craft art, performances and more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">“Beauty,” he [Walter Russell] replied without hesitation. “Beauty and worthiness to live life as a masterful interpreter of the Light.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one’s thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore thing beauty always if one desires vitality of body and happiness.”</span><br />
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(Glenn Clark: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe, p 43)artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-20323814391100913372011-06-07T20:45:00.000-07:002011-06-07T20:45:03.767-07:00Great Art is SimpleGreat art is simple. My universe is great art, for it is simple. <br />
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Great art is balanced. My universe is consummate art, for it is balanced simplicity. <br />
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My universe is one in which many things have majestic measure; and again another many have measure too fine for sensing. Yet I have not one law for majestic things, and another low for things which are beyond the sensing. <br />
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I have but one law for all My opposed pairs of creating things: and that law needs but one word to spell it out, so hear Me when I say that the one word of My one law is Balance. And if man needs two words to aid him in his knowing of the workings of that law, these two words are Balanced Interchange.<br />
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If man still needs more words to aid his knowing of My one law, give to him another one, and let those three words be Rhythmic Balanced Interchange.<br />
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(Walter and Lao Russell, Home Study Course in Cosmic Consciousness, Unit 4, Lesson 13)artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-38938681647412083522011-06-07T20:32:00.000-07:002011-06-07T20:43:52.963-07:00What is Art?<span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">What makes someone a master artist is not technical ability per se, but rather the soul qualities that reflect the Soul of Cosmic Mind. … The Soul alone can give out love. The body can render a perfect technical reproduction, but if the love nature of God is not in it, it is not art, <span style="color: #674ea7;"><strong>for the art of anything is not in the skill of rendering a visible or audible thing but in the beauty and love that only the stillness of the Light of the Soul can give.</strong></span> And herein lies the difference between the genius of the master and soulless mediocrity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">(Walter and Lao Russell, Home Study Course in Cosmic Consciousness , Unit 1, Lesson 2)</span>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-46412575781506913132010-07-01T06:00:00.000-07:002010-07-01T06:00:05.397-07:00Primarily True<p><a title="Primarily True" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Primarily-true.htm" target="_blank"><img title="primarilytrue" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="386" alt="primarilytrue" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCqyVK2ZP7I/AAAAAAAAAI4/9ERU3-rvD1w/primarilytrue%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="539" border="0" /></a></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-8630545989982031262010-06-30T16:22:00.000-07:002010-06-30T16:22:00.525-07:00Afternoon at the Museum<p><a href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Along-the-boulevard.htm"><img title="Jayhawk-Boulevard" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="325" alt="Jayhawk-Boulevard" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCqqd9h7XeI/AAAAAAAAAIs/tTaRaJJhHQ8/Jayhawk-Boulevard%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="429" border="0" /></a></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-7312128330722461822010-06-30T05:07:00.000-07:002010-06-30T05:07:00.203-07:00media spree continues<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCqvbjTmWCI/AAAAAAAAAIw/LQUcigFZyT0/s1600-h/banner-install%5B4%5D.jpg"><img title="banner-install" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="414" alt="banner-install" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCqvcPrNX5I/AAAAAAAAAI0/WPTkc0lbNHQ/banner-install_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="367" border="0" /></a></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-84174712334922066072010-06-29T18:59:00.001-07:002010-06-29T21:01:25.015-07:00News clipping<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCrBkbftInI/AAAAAAAAAI8/pYewyy_mVq0/s1600-h/newspaper2%5B4%5D.jpg"><img title="It all began with an idea. Paint barns and paint big. One thing lead to another and now cities across the U.S. are plastered with images of barns as big as barns. Although some find humor in the billboard images of a red barn scattered through major urbans areas, the artist, Debra Clemente is laughing her way to the bank." style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="337" alt="It all began with an idea. Paint barns and paint big. One thing lead to another and now cities across the U.S. are plastered with images of barns as big as barns. Although some find humor in the billboard images of a red barn scattered through major urbans areas, the artist, Debra Clemente is laughing her way to the bank." src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCrBlLRE-9I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Vy6xWF3qih4/newspaper2_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="389" border="0" /></a></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-28489369353755909022010-06-28T15:21:00.001-07:002010-06-28T15:21:43.109-07:00Smokin’ Hot Art<p><a href="http://artistdeb.com/MAIN/Hard-to-forget.htm" target="_blank"><img title="smoking hot" style="display: inline" height="355" alt="smoking hot" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCkgdWkJArI/AAAAAAAAAHI/-COOR3lQ2Fg/smoking%20hot%5B5%5D.gif?imgmax=800" width="425" /></a> </p> <p>For Immediate Release July 28, 2010</p> <p><strong> International Touring Art Exhibition </strong></p> <p><strong><font color="#800080" size="5">Contemporary Color:</font> </strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4">The Art of Debra Clemente</font></strong></p> <p>Viewer comments:  </p> <blockquote> <p>“Clemente is on fire!”</p> <p>“Brilliant. Just Brilliant”</p> <p>“Spectacular Show.”</p> <p>“I’m glad they didn’t wait tell she was dead.”</p> <p>“Stunning graphics”</p> <p>“I love her color!”</p> <p>“The depth and breadth of Clemente’s work far exceeds her years.”</p> <p>“I’m impressed!”</p> <p>“I bought each of her three books!”</p> <p>“So much more than meets the eye!’</p> <p>“She’s my favorite artist.”</p> <p>“Did you see the artist? Now, she’s smokin’ hot!”</p> <p> </p> </blockquote> <p> Exhibition schedule inquires e-mail <a href="mailto:art@artistdeb.com">art@artistdeb.com</a>.</p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-81709487879744658202010-06-28T10:38:00.001-07:002010-06-28T10:39:00.838-07:00BIG AS A BARN<p><a title="Artist Debra Clemente" href="http://artistdeb.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Master Colorist - Debra Clemente" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="396" alt="Master Colorist - Debra Clemente" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCjd_a_aerI/AAAAAAAAAHA/qFRKyCCKKBE/billboard-promo-1%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="525" border="0" /></a></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-27407185137967711982010-06-25T13:05:00.001-07:002010-06-25T13:05:21.938-07:00higher calling<p> </p> <p>To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. <br /><b>::: <a href="http://www.artquotes.net/masters/giorgio-de-chirico/index.htm">Giorgio de Chirico</a> :::</b></p> <p><a title="Detail of Clemente painting "Come Closer"" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/GRAND/Come_closer.htm" target="_blank"><img title="colorful wheat, 4/10/08, 12:12 PM, 8C, 10926x15576 (252+408), 150%, repro-paint, 1/30 s, R73.9, G66.4, B114.4 " style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="170" alt="colorful wheat, 4/10/08, 12:12 PM, 8C, 10926x15576 (252+408), 150%, repro-paint, 1/30 s, R73.9, G66.4, B114.4 " src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCUL-ja4mqI/AAAAAAAAAGo/lRErhna_dSo/Come_Closer_48x72_2008_CLEMENTE_detail_1%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p><b></b></p> <p>A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. <br /><b>::: <a href="http://www.artquotes.net/masters/william-dobell/quotes.htm">William Dobell</a> :::</b></p> <p><a title="Detail of Clemente painting "Abundance"" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/GRAND/Abundance.htm" target="_blank"><img title="Abundance-d1w" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="181" alt="Abundance-d1w" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCUL_PFTXoI/AAAAAAAAAGs/HIyNiypklSo/Abundance-d1w%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p><b></b></p> <p>All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. <br /><b>::: <a href="http://www.artquotes.net/motivational-quotes/eckhart-tolle.htm">Eckhart Tolle</a> :::</b></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><a title="Detail of Clemente painting "Colorado Color"" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Colorado-color.htm" target="_blank"><img title="Colorado_Color_detail-w" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="199" alt="Colorado_Color_detail-w" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCUL_kQ6DBI/AAAAAAAAAGw/m3KeyVOtIDM/Colorado_Color_detail-w%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p>Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. <br /><b>::: <a href="http://www.artquotes.net/masters/alice-neel/index.htm">Alice Neel</a> :::</b></p> <p><a title="detail of Clemente painting "Golden Glow"" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Golden-Glow.htm" target="_blank"><img title="Golden_Glow_d-w" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="161" alt="Golden_Glow_d-w" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/TCUMAUZ7hfI/AAAAAAAAAG0/N6I853E5C1g/Golden_Glow_d-w%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p> <p><b></b></p> <p>I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. <br /><b>::: <a href="http://www.artquotes.net/masters/andrew-wyeth/index.htm">Andrew Wyeth</a> :::</b></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-57878746373168487352010-02-01T21:41:00.000-08:002010-02-01T21:41:00.499-08:00INSPIRED<p><font size="3"></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> <p><font size="3">The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings. 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One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts. </p> <p>- Albert Einstein</p></blockquote> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-12134539689572687112009-11-16T22:05:00.000-08:002009-11-16T22:10:14.975-08:00I'M RETRO<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZTEA3N0uZ8PU01mX13Ni3urSSubhPdUk3lHc_L0QjCofDukv3ZsfwqJavIqYdWuLLYylynW4O6KHk7qAB4-4_QiyEGDyo9NF9_csa1QZk0klL2F5va5lig4WxMEjizKjGHAfbw/s1600/RETRO-BABY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZTEA3N0uZ8PU01mX13Ni3urSSubhPdUk3lHc_L0QjCofDukv3ZsfwqJavIqYdWuLLYylynW4O6KHk7qAB4-4_QiyEGDyo9NF9_csa1QZk0klL2F5va5lig4WxMEjizKjGHAfbw/s320/RETRO-BABY.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they liked "old fashioned". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I am at the half way point </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and don't feel old yet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heck the clothes I wore as a kid </span><br />
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</div></div>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-24118088760267499042009-09-07T08:16:00.001-07:002009-09-07T08:16:35.289-07:00CUZIMTHEBOSSAME<p>I can do what I want <strong>“BECAUSE I’M THE BOSS OF ME.”</strong></p> <p>I remind myself of this often. When I am painting and pause to question a color choice I’ve made I remind myself that I can do what I want - <strong>CUZIMTHEBOSSAME</strong>. When I say it I love to run it all together like that. It feels good coming off my tongue and makes me smile. It reminds me how clever I am and that I am responsible for my life and my choices.</p> <p><a title="Detail of painting "Quiet Times" by Debra Clemente" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Quiet%20Times.htm" target="_blank"><img title="Quiet_Times_detail_1_Clemente" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="333" alt="Quiet_Times_detail_1_Clemente" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/SqUj0XHEBZI/AAAAAAAAAFE/qVYljnv74f8/Quiet_Times_detail_1_Clemente%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="423" border="0" /></a></p> <p>So, if I want to paint late into the wee hours of the morning I can – <strong>CUZIMTHEBOSSAME</strong>. And if I want to sleep in the next morning I can  - <strong>CUZIMTHEBOSSAME</strong>. </p> <p>This morning while rummaging through the frig looking for good stuff to add to a breakfast burrito, I spied celery. Hmm, would celery be good in the burrito? I’ve never heard of anyone putting celery in their eggs but why not? I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t be good. I could sauté some celery with the onion, pepper, and bits of steak. Sounds good to me. </p> <p>Sure, I can do whatever I want  - <strong>CUZIMTHEBOSSAME!</strong> Then I smiled a quirky little smile of satisfaction. What a clever girl am I. </p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-3794874158573652082009-08-30T06:00:00.000-07:002013-02-22T17:36:36.420-08:00I painted this for youMy husband poked his head in my studio checking up on me. “Is that painting for somebody or just a painting?” He inquired. My reply was quick and adamant. “Oh, it’s for somebody. We just don’t know who yet.” When I’m painting it’s not my concern where the painting will ultimately find it’s home. My task is to bring it into this world. <br />
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I believe more and more that each of the paintings I produce have their own destiny, a purpose for life beyond the walls of my studio. It’s as though I’m the medium or conduit for an idea that need expressing. These ideas seem to come through me and to me more than being of me. It’s exciting to think it’s all part of a grander scheme. <br />
It’s the same for the way the names of the paintings come to me. Sometimes they are named during the painting process. I’ll find myself repeating a word or phrase over and over as I paint. “Delicious, delicious, delicious”, I murmur. My mouth watering over the vibrant magenta hues in the iris painting developing before me. Then as if someone has snapped their fingers I come out of my trance and say out loud “Why that’s your name, <b>“Delicious!”</b> <br />
Other times, after the painting is complete I will stand back to take it in anew. Whatever comes to me, I go with. I don't argue or debate what I am given. I have too many paintings in my head yet to come to concern myself to long with or debate about titles. The really fun thing of it is I’ve found that these inspired names are part of the magic.<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/kansas.htm" target="_blank" title=""Sunshine Grow in Kansas" by Debra Clemente hangs behind the private desk of the Kansas Governor in the Kansas Capitol Building."><br /></a> <br />
<b>“Sunshine Grows In Kansas”</b>, yeah, that’s your name. I told field of sunflowers just fresh from my easel. I had the perfect frame too, a heavy guy. It was a frame style closeout deal from my supplier. Only one left and I got it at a great price. The massive dark wood frame was much different than my typical frame choices, very stately one might say. Together it was a match made it heaven, but there is more to this story. <a href="http://www.artistdeb.com/ARTIST/Gov-Sunflower-Press-Release-.htm" target="_blank" title="Kansas Governors office acquires Clemente's Sunflower Painting "Sunshine Grows In Kansas"">more…</a><br />
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artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-60809722334891287292009-08-29T06:00:00.000-07:002009-08-29T06:00:01.889-07:00Resolving versus Finishing<p>When I have resolved all the issues that bother me in a painting I am done. Note I say that “I am done”, not that the painting is finished. </p> <p>As my artistic vision has matured I have come to the understanding that including too many well defined details makes for a boring work of art. I like each work to have an air of mystery and intrigue which invites the viewers involvement. </p> <p><a title="Surface detail of "Enchantment" by Debra Clemente" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Enchantment.htm" target="_blank"><img height="187" src="http://www.artistdeb.com/MAIN/Enchantment-dw.jpg" width="342" /> </a></p> <p>I liken this idea to the reading of a novel versus seeing the movie version of the same story. The reader of a story is required to be an active participant using their imagination to interpret what is suggested. The movie version of the same tale has been interpreted by the director so the viewer is just that, a viewer, not a participant.</p> <p>So, as I continue to resolve my “art issues” I invite you to use your imagination as well. My hope is that you not tire of a work and call it done, that instead you will be drawn back to it and into it again and again. Each time adding a new twist to the story which is now yours to tell.</p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-61211238751654913182009-08-28T13:16:00.001-07:002009-08-29T01:25:09.677-07:00Wheat Free – Happy Me<p><a href="http://wheat-free.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="100" alt="Wheat Free - Happy Me" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTckYG51tlmVQmgxup3FK7lkJ6cw00oA0j3T6qcz_gcbigmRIDSfM1JrAf-phCPq9iiNp0AUn2Vv5MfBQmCcbXyMcNjd_aJN5EW94oEhXVHrquOwpLHwsaDJSu9ELQHmlZtL4-/s1600/wheatfreew.png" width="231" /></a></p> <p>It’s the name of my other blog site where<strong> I EVANGILIZE about MY RETURN TO HEALTH! </strong>It is definitely a story worth telling and although I haven’t posted a lot, nor put much effort into promoting the blog, I have been contacted by and spoken with people all over the world whom have been touched and enlighten by my story.  </p> <p>When I removed Gluten from my diet some five years ago my life changed in ways I had no way to imagine. I say that because before that point I was literally crippled by and living with constant whole body pain. <strong>NO ONE EVER TOLD ME </strong>what I am telling others. It seem everyday I now find more and more scientific evidence supporting my personal findings. </p> <p><strong>EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION</strong>, which could possibly be the answer to the prayers they have put out for a healing. If you know anyone suffering from <strong>Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel, TMJ. Carpel Tunnel, Interstitial Cystitis, Itchy Rashes, Restless Legs, Brain Fog, Depression, Headaches, Overall body pain, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</strong> please pass this link on. </p> <p><a title="http://wheat-free.blogspot.com/" href="http://wheat-free.blogspot.com/">http://wheat-free.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p><strong>I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALL OF THIS CRAP</strong> and yet <strong>NO DOCTOR EVER MADE A CONNECTION</strong> WITH MY INGESTION <strong>OF GLUTEN</strong> BEING EVEN SLIGHTLY RELATED - MUCH LESS THE CAUSE.</p> <p align="center"><font size="4"><font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#0000a0" size="6">TO GOOD HEALTH</font> <br /><font color="#ff8000">CHEERS WITH A GLUTEN-FREE BEER</font></font></font></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-8328855321469850902009-08-28T12:01:00.001-07:002009-08-28T12:44:51.686-07:006 - WORD PERSONAL GROWTH STORY<blockquote> <p><font face="Century Gothic" color="#400080" size="6">Created art, </font></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><font face="Century Gothic" color="#400080" size="6">gained insight, </font></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><font face="Century Gothic"><font color="#400080" size="6">knew truth.</font>  <font color="#808080">Debra Clemente</font></font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" color="#8000ff"></font></p> </blockquote> <p>Isn’t it interesting some of the places you can find yourself while web surfing? I find myself just where I need to be, when I need it. Like just now when found myself reading a challenge to create a <a href="http://daily.finerminds.com/mind/whats-your-6-word-personal-growth-story/" target="_blank">6 – word personal growth story</a>. I took the challenge and let what flowed out be. I like it and wanted to share it with you. </p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-87030136511400417152009-08-02T23:10:00.001-07:002009-08-02T23:24:47.447-07:00ODE TO BAUER FARM<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/SnZ_asd3AKI/AAAAAAAAAE0/PA66Owe75cQ/s1600-h/Ode%20to%20Bauer%20Farm%5B2%5D.jpg"><img title="'ODE" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" height="174" alt="'ODE" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/SnZ_bPLgbNI/AAAAAAAAAE4/BvNQD_eas08/Ode%20to%20Bauer%20Farm_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" border="0" /></a> </p><p>My good friend Judy Bauer asked me to create a painting of their family farm as she wished to as a surprise to her husband Gene with the painting for Father’s Day. </p><p>I don’t take such assignments lightly. No, I wrestle with them. Judy and I hadn’t been able to make a trip to their farm, which was a few hours drive away, but she had given me a few snap shots as reference. Arm in arm and all smiles, their family stood posing together beside a tidy row of cylindrical hay bales. A tall corn field, stately barn and clear blue sky completed the serene setting.</p><p>Studying the photos, I felt the pride this family had in this piece of land. I could see it and I could feel it but the vision that was having was drifting away from the reference photos I held. This is where commissions get tricky for me. Who’s vision am I painting? There is no easy answer. Is it my vision, their vision or my vision of their vision? See, it gets tricky.</p><p>A really safe way to handle the situation would be to paint the reference photo verbatim. B O R I N G ! <em></em>Well, I just can’t go there. It’s not my nature but I still had issues within myself to resolve. </p><p>AND THEN IT CAME TO ME – <span style="font-size:78%;">(I just love revelations) </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">by drawing</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">(ha!)</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">a comparison of visual works to works of words I could justify my interpretation to myself and the Bauer's. An artist’s goal is to create works that need no explanation but commission work is special deal and as Judy is a writer I knew she could relate to this twist.</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;color:#800080;">Dry factual writing verses poetic. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;color:#800080;">I saw the reference photos as factual descriptions of the land as it might be listed for sale and in contrast I viewed the painting I was creating as a poem. </span></p></blockquote><p>And so it is - <strong><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:130%;color:#800080;">ODE TO BAUER FARM</span></strong>.</p>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-88334535103369411452009-08-02T11:52:00.001-07:002009-08-07T12:45:36.043-07:00WAY TO ROCK – JAYHAWK!<p><a title="'2009-10" href="http://www.artistdeb.com/Images/KU-Phone-Book_2009.jpg" target="_blank"><img title="KU-Phone-Book-2009-Debra-Clemente-art" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" height="231" alt="KU-Phone-Book-2009-Debra-Clemente-art" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_inx3ukPEp1w/SnXfwOfxO1I/AAAAAAAAAEw/8wHaFSDsLZw/KU-Phone-Book-2009-Debra-Clemente-art%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="202" border="0" /></a> </p><p>The University of Kansas has chosen to feature my painting <span style="font-size:100%;color:#0000ff;"><strong>AT THE TOP OF THE HILL</strong></span> on the cover of the 2009-10 KU Directory. <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>VERY COOL OF YOU - KU!</strong></span></p>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-66100005195859131842009-08-02T11:30:00.001-07:002009-08-02T11:30:47.907-07:004:8 LIFE IS GREAT<p align="center"><font size="3">“Summing it all up, friends, <br />I’d say you’ll do best <br />by filling your minds <br />and meditating on things <br />TRUE, NOBLE, <br />REPUTABLE, <br />AUTHENTIC, <br />COMPELLING, GRACIOUS- <br />THE BEST, <br />NOT THE WORST: <br />THE BEAUTIFUL, NOT THE UGLY; <br />THINGS TO PRAISE, <br />NOT THINGS TO CURSE.”       <br /><strong>            PHILLIPIANS 4:8</strong></font></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-5692438109630580742009-08-02T10:22:00.001-07:002009-08-02T10:25:51.799-07:00TESTING 1 2 3<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzwviAwwYV-URgrIsQijq0He2GloJGkiMIMtZ_Z_jl05SYrmXS8uXPlqaqy9uzNhVJEUXuKa2SZDongS4duYvFhsMGuA02sfKmz-qFL8qJzJwaqwMUhZ8Dz83bxiMaundG5BKaDQ/s1600-h/1+Donna+%26+Deb-775279.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365418211029296466" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzwviAwwYV-URgrIsQijq0He2GloJGkiMIMtZ_Z_jl05SYrmXS8uXPlqaqy9uzNhVJEUXuKa2SZDongS4duYvFhsMGuA02sfKmz-qFL8qJzJwaqwMUhZ8Dz83bxiMaundG5BKaDQ/s320/1+Donna+%26+Deb-775279.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><span style="font-size:6;color:#ff6600;">Technology can be fun.</span> </span><br />I am making this post via e-mail.<br /><strong>THIS IS ONLY A TEST.</strong> <br />We will return to regularly scheduled programing shortly.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">The picture of the cute little girl on the porch is me. Little Debbie with big sis Donna.</span>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-27261065699023280762009-08-01T21:20:00.001-07:002009-08-01T21:32:39.157-07:00YOU CAN QUOTE ME<p><font size="4"></font></p> <p><font size="4"><strong>A MATTER OF FACT</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4">What really matters isn’t matter. </font></p> <p><font size="4"> </font><font color="#008080"><a href="http://www.artistdeb.com/" target="_blank">Debra Brown Clemente</a> (1959-)</font></p> artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24810896.post-73450348132494646312009-08-01T21:02:00.001-07:002009-08-02T11:25:23.049-07:00KINDRED SPIRIT<h3><span style="color:#ffffff;">---</span></h3><h3><span style="color:#408080;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of </span></span><span style="color:#408080;"><span style="font-size:130%;">observed reality - true art lies in a reality that is felt"</span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Odilon Redon (1840-1916)</span></span></span></h3><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">---</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">Mr. Odilon Redon</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">37 Heavens Gate, Cloud Nine</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;">---</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">August 1, 2009</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">Dear Mr. Redon,</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">Good evening kind sir. Though we have never met and as I was just introduced to your thoughts a few short minutes ago I feel as if we are soul mates. Kindred spirits for sure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;">Your words quicken my soul. You know my heart. Do you read minds? No wait, your mind came before mine right? Maybe not, perhaps it’s</span><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;"> part of THE GRAND PLAN that we are all of ONE MIND. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">Whatever it is sir, I want you to know you that speak my truth. Though the work we have each created is our own, the driving force is the same. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;">Nice to meet you. Yes, it’s very nice to meet you. </span><span style="color:#ffffff;">-</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;">Your Souls Mate, </span><span style="color:#ffffff;">-</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;font-size:130%;">Debra Clemente </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT;"></span></p></blockquote><table style="WIDTH: 404px; HEIGHT: 1075px" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="404" border="1"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="402"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" width="396" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="394"><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;">QUOTES BY FRENCH ARTIST</span></strong></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:180%;">ODILON REDON*</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:180%;"><img title="Beatrice 1885 (180 Kb); Pastel over charcoal" style="DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" height="174" alt="Beatrice 1885 (180 Kb); Pastel over charcoal" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/redon.beatrice.jpg" width="159" /> </span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance. But the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="394">A title is justified only when it is vague and even aims confusedly at the elliptical. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor... </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="402"><strong>*</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/" target="_blank">Odilon Redon</a> (1840-1916)</strong><br /><strong>Serious art collectors take note.</strong> Considering that Odilon Redon and Debra Clemente have companion artist souls and have both revealed remarkable powers as a colorists and that Redon’s work continues to garner much attention and value<em> (see </em><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4277055" target="_blank"><em>Christies Auction</em></a></span><em> </em><em>listing) </em>it is certain that Debra Clemente’s work will follow a similar rise in notoriety and value.<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family:Gisha;"></span></p>artistdebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833468904509688447noreply@blogger.com0