Dear Art lover,
Hello and happy Spring! I have news to share and I feel thrilled about that.
First, I have been working. Not a lot, but it feels good. I had started work last spring on a sculpted face to be mounted on a wall behind a water spigot. After seeing the client's space, I realized how new the plumbing work was. If they had to call a plumber to install the face (since they want the faucet coming out of the mouth), the project would be prolonged and become costly. Ironically, my accident last summer caused a tremendous wait.
Thus, my idea was to design a face that could separate into two parts, one to install from beneath the spigot, the other mounted from above and fitting over the lower section. Thankfully, they wanted a man. What can a man have in all shapes and sizes near the mouth? Yup: a mustache!
Still not being healthy for me to lift heavy things and needing more rest that I imagined at almost nine months of healing, it took me a month to get two different molds made. The first is a two-part mold: the traditional flexible rubber mold that picks-up details and form from the sculpture, and then the fiberglass hard mother mold to support the casting from losing its intended shape. The second, separate mold was straight plaster.
Why two molds? Because I want to cast in concrete or maybe at a future date, bronze (hence the two-part mold). And I also want to offer a version in terra-cotta ('baked earth' from water-based clay). The porous plaster is intended to help absorb the water from the clay to enable a release that the rubber mold cannot do so well.
On my YouTube channel, I have shared the mold-making process. While I still have to put together and edit the plaster mold and the creating of the concrete face videos, I do have the first mold-making videos online. Check those out at:
If you enjoy these working-studio videos, please subscribe to my channel there and hit the notification bell so you know when I post new content. Thank you.
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Vinci Art Exhibit! April opening
I met an Italian woman named Matilde in 2022. I had gone to a small art event for some professors that I know. Afterwards, all artists and guests wandered to a nearby cafe for a small aperitivo. Later we walked over to a restaurant that could house our large group. What a fun evening, even with rain pouring down as we exited the restaurant. Matilde sat next to me during dinner. She loved my work.
She contacted me again last December with a proposal for a group art exhibit. Through a long-time chef friend of hers at a five-star Michelin restaurant, Matilde was presented to a young chef who shows real promise of making a name for himself with his edible creations. Matilde hand-chose artists that work in a variety of media (including a Japanese video creator) to exhibit at the new space in Vinci (yes, the town of Leonardo in Tuscany, not far from Firenze/Florence) that this chef and his civil engineer wife are renovating now.
When Matilde came to my home to see which works she wanted, I was lucky. She wanted three stone carvings (but sadly, the abstracted swan is one I am not physically able to finish before this event). She also saw two charcoal drawings that I had done of the rugged Vernazza shoreline of the Cinque Terre.
And when she looked to another wall, she exclaimed, "Oh, how I love this! Do you have more?" She had seen a large print of a photo I had taken of some ruins in Pescia, the town where she lives. Matilde was delighted when I said, "Yes. In fact I have a collection of 15 images, framed and ready to go! I had created them for an exhibit in a local small town. However, Covid hit and the project was a bit forgotten about as the world opened up again." We took them out of the corner where I had stored them and placed them on and around the couch. She chose 13 of them.
Thus, I have THREE separate media and of different subjects of my work in this event! I am so happy and I hope you are able to make it to Vinci.
I also showed her the marble carvings of my friend Kumiko Suzuki that I have been storing since Covid hit. So, Kummi will also have a work in this event.
I share here a few images of the site on March 4th when artists went to drop off our selected works. The space is gorgeous and upstairs the couple is renovating six bedrooms for overnight guests to the famous tiny town. It is so exciting to see the beginning manifestations of a dream coming true!
The opening is planned for 21 April, all-day events. Once I receive details, I will pass them onto you. The mixed-media exhibit of about ten artists (and the chef!) will continue through November. The location is right across a small piazza from Centro Espositivo Leo Lev di Vinci, https://www.leolev.it/
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Doing a little "Spring Cleaning"? Perhaps these two articles will inspire you to change up your environments a wee bit:
Tips for hanging / displaying art collection:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hang-art-collection-expert
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-collectors-storing-art
Happy Spring Celebrations, from Norooz to Easter and more,
Kelly
https://BorsheimArts.com
P.S. Just yesterday I had my first therapy session since my accident and subsequent surgery on my spine last July. After today's session, I will write a new update for the donor page that really helped my medical bills and months of not working at all. All free to read.
My siblings set up this page to share the story. If interested, click here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/back-surgery-rehab-for-sculptor-kelly-borsheim
Thank you.
New Year's Eve is upon us. Did you know that I created a painting by that name?
I was carving the marble Gymnast in Texas on December 31, 2010, when the scent of the air changed. The wind picked up, as did my excitement. I ran to our open field and saw a gorgeous sunset happening, tinged with gold at the edge of the clouds. The sky was drifting.
I had run back to the house and begged my husband to come experience this with me, but he told me to run on ahead as he was busy with his calculations. I did.
And later I attempted to paint this wonderful feeling. However, how does one paint a scent, the wind, the change in temperature? I set the work aside, telling myself that I had just created a boring scene that lacked what I felt.
In 2011, John and I divorced. It was a crazy year for me as I tried to wrap up my sculpture projects, as well as write my book. I moved to be with my sister who lived two hours away in a neighborhood near the US Army base Ft. Hood (renamed in May 2023 as Fort Cavazos). Her husband was in Afghanistan and she was pregnant and needed my help to create her plastic mustaches (WhiskerWorks.com). Fumes were bad for the baby.
I was there for two months. It was the only time I could write my street painting book because it was not feasible for me to pack up my art, or to commute. I was lucky in that my baby was born before hers was.... just. My sister Amber was the graphic designer for the book and she knew she would have no time for that after their first son was born. (Her husband Alex returned from his military service and wrote the text on the back of the book!)
Anyway, it was probably while I was chasing the fresh-out-of-the-mold plastic mustaches, a safe, repetitive task that allowed my brain to do other things, that an idea for what to add to my sky painting emerged.
Once home again, I took my favorite wedding photo and curved it in my hand. I wanted to have a model of it, as if the wind was blowing away something important and beautiful, and lost. We did have a good thing, but I was lonely and therefore felt there was something else I had to try. However, I also felt that I needed to protect my love, and thus hid him from being shown in the painting.
The phrase "New Year's Eve" describes a beginning and an ending in the same thought. And it was a perfect match, the photo to this sunset, which I had actually seen on the namesake day of the transition to a new year.
To see more images of this artwork, go here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/new-years-eve-oil-painting
For 2024, while I am still healing from that horrible accident with the wave on my back, it is clear that I will be unable to make much art for several more months. I start therapy on the 12th of January. Thus, it will be difficult for me to share with you much fun art-process images and videos and text.
Is there something else you would enjoy reading about? I have tons of images from various hikes around Italy.... perhaps more stories of some of my past adventures?
I really hate to bore you or whine about my health situation. On the world picture, I am hardly in a bad place. I would love your feedback about what interests you so that I do not waste your time.
And in closing, please remember how important you are to me and my ability to remain an artist in any way that I can manage. My artistic life is nowhere near over and like the painting described above, in one way or another, this humbling experience will show up in my artwork.
Thank you and Happy 2024!
Cheers to you,
Kelly Borsheim
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I still cannot make much art yet... if you know me well, you might remember how "on edge" that makes me. My local doc actually put me on a "do not worry, it is natural" (so is arsenic!) pill to help me chill after I told her that I get embarrassed now by exaggerated angry outbursts when I feel frustrated or see something that is not kind or just. Drugs do not appeal to me as even without them, my life feels surreal more often than not. Thus, I save these pills for when I think I will be around people, especially frustrating/rigid/unimaginative people. The natural medicine is for them, really, not so much for me. hahahah.
All that intro was intended to say that I want to wish you a happy solstice soon, as well as all of the other wonderful end-of-year holidays around the world. Thus, I wanted to share with you some images I took during a recent weekend getaway with my beau and his friends.
Our first stop in Tuscany was Chiusdino, in the region of Siena. I had never heard of it, but I found the medieval village charming, as I tend to do most of them in this country. The whole town not only had a huge outdoor art exhibit going on, but most of the streets were dug up for new plumbing. The wooden catwalks were fun to use. An older-than-me man was working in his cantina and explained that the town has chosen to use the natural hot springs (terme) to heat homes there instead of the expensive gas. They expect their bills to halve during the winter, but it was unclear to me if it would be this winter or not.
I may make another blog post about the art exhibit. My energy is limited and we never found out the name of the artist(s).
Just walking around the town, we ended up eating lunch in a cavern. hahah. La Grotta di Tiburzi has an enticing menu. I enjoyed the Ravioli Maremmani with Gorgonzola cheese and walnuts. The ravioli prepared in the style of Maremma means that inside was spinach and ricotta cheese. Everyone was delighted with the lunch. Maremma is the area in SW Tuscany, where the Etruscan culture was based centuries ago before the Roman Empire.
After lunch, we took advantage of the afternoon light and drove to the nearby Abbey of Saint Galgano. I had seen pictures of this famous landmark of a roofless antique church and I was thrilled when I understood we were going to see this! The weather was perfect and with fewer tourists than normal. It was lovely.
The Rotonda chapel up a small hill features the lovely dome you see in my photo of concentric circles. Below the ceiling is the legendary "sword in the rock" on permanent exhibit, protected under a curving window. Unlike the story of rock-embedded blade that only a true king could remove (the legend of King Arthur), the sword here went the opposite direction. A knight from Chiusdino named Galgano Guidotti (d. 1181) renounced his violent and wayward ways, plunging a sword INTO a rock. The weapon's entrance into the hard material that "yielded like butter" was the miracle that led to the knight's conversion and later sainthood (San Galgano).
The Rotonda di Montesiepi was built in 1185, four years after the death of the newly converted man of God. It was restored in 1924.
The Abbey bears the name of their saint. It was built on the site of a Cistercian Monastery starting around 1220. It took about six decades to complete. There were triumphs and losses. And over the centuries, abandonment. What was left of the roof collapsed in 1786 when the bell tower fell. Materials were looted as construction material. But really, I wonder if someone restored the building to its original glory, roof and bell tower included, would she earn such beloved visits and enjoy such fame as she gets today?
I would love to visit again with the morning light upon the Gothic-style abbey, curious about the differences. That said, I was happy with the clouds above adding texture and forms to the blue Tuscan sky.
"In questa roccia, bertice del colle di Montisiepe, Galgano Giudotti nel 1180 pianto' la spada, benerando in essa la croce simbolo di pace e redenzione."
or:
"In this rock, a ravine of the Montisiepe hill, Galgano Giudotti planted his sword in 1180, blessing in it the cross, symbol of peace and redemption."
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The supposed storage place for the head of San Galgano, is in the Museum of Opera [Works], Duomo, Siena:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_di_Valentino
However, when my friends and I entered the church of San Michele Arcangelo (The archangel Saint Michael) in the town of Chiusdino, where Galgano was born, I took this image in a little room to the right of the altar. It is claimed to be the head (skull) of Saint Galgano, connected to this church perhaps because it is said that it was the archangel who spurred the horse of the knight Galgano to go to the hill to his conversion to Christian monkhood, where the sword is now implanted into the rock.
Pretty gruesome. And with the sword there with a skull inside the container, it makes me wish that I had known where we were going on this trip so that I could have researched what to see and then asked a few more questions or looked around both places while we were there.
A few links of interest on this topic:
The knight turned to saint:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galgano_Guidotti
Chiusdino, Tuscany, Italy:
https://www.summerinitaly.com/guide/chiusdino
Our restaurant in Chiusdino:
https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g652036-d2314333-Reviews-La_Grotta_di_Tiburzi-Chiusdino_Tuscany.html
Read more details of the interesting story about the Sword in the Stone:
http://myarmoury.com/feature_stone.html
Looking for a nice touch to your gift wrapping? I just uploaded a new downloadable gift tag set of 3 holiday designs:
https://borsheimarts.etsy.com/listing/1636167393/printable-christmas-gift-tags-3-designs
More designs here:
https://borsheimarts.etsy.com/?section_id=31926484
and gift tags with figures:
https://borsheimartsstudio.etsy.com/?section_id=44291194
[The main shop is: https://borsheimarts.etsy.com ]
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My painting thoughts on Christmas balls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMPU0Zqr1Js&lc=Ugw5DTy-qgkiGv555vp4AaABAg
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Blessed holidays to you,
Kelly
https://BorsheimArts.com
P.S. I got a surprise last Tuesday when I had to go see a bone specialist. She looked at my newest set of X-rays for my spine. According to her I broke Vertebra #7 in the rib cage. However, all written and spoken word before hers since the day of my meeting with the wave says that I had broken # 5 and worse (more shattered) # 6. What do I make of that!?!
My siblings set up this page to share the story. If interested, click here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/back-surgery-rehab-for-sculptor-kelly-borsheim
Thank you.
On this American festival of Giving Thanks, I want to reach out and tell you how much I appreciate your presence in my life, one way or another. There is a lot of ugliness, brutality, insecurities, and fears rearing their ugly heads all over the world. Thus, it is important for each of us, as often as we can, to show kindness and appreciation of others (when merited).
Personally, while I have painful and what feels like wasted days now while I am still recuperating, I also feel grateful. I feel grateful to that little pilot light inside of me that saved me during high school, but also that upon the shock of the impact of my head on the seabed, I only opened my eyes. Had I opened my mouth, I would have inhaled salt water and sand. And this story would have a very different ending.
I have started painting small things because using my hands means using the shoulder muscles on my back, near the surgeon's cut, and that increases inflammation and pain still. I have two small Christmas markets upcoming in which I hope to share some of my little holiday offerings.
But today is Thanksgiving, so I will close by showing you two oil paintings I had done some time ago of food. Just ask if interested.
Artichoke, Radishes, Potatoes, and Leaves
Still Life Food Painting:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/print-from-artichoke-radishes-still-life-food-painting
Olives and Oil:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/olives-and-oil-still-life-with-red-fabric
Enjoy your time with your loved ones and take good care. Share kindness.
Thanks to you,
Kelly
P.S. Two vertebrae in my middle rib cage area were broken in an accident on the beach this past July. A wave slammed me under the shallow seabed as I had turned to walk towards the beach after a swim. The doctors and rescue staff told me repeatedly to stay still on my back (for five days) or I risked losing the use of my legs. I had surgery in Livorno, Italy, on 25 July 2023, to stabilize the vertebrae by installing eight screws and some titanium bars in the surrounding bones of my spine. I can walk and I am currently waiting on new X-rays to see what is wrong with my lower spine. After that, I hope to start therapy.
My siblings set up this page to share the story. If interested, click here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/back-surgery-rehab-for-sculptor-kelly-borsheim
Thank you.
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To see some of my arty holiday offerings of printable gift tags, cards, bookmarks, digital papers, art prints and more, see my main shop:
In my two shops on the Etsy platform, I have moved all of my nude artwork listings, in many different formats (from digital downloads to prints I make and ship to you, and a few selected original works) to the second shop here:
https://borsheimartsstudio.etsy.com
Enjoy. I hope to keep adding content to both shops.
The rest of the available artwork is here:
https://BorsheimArts.com
Above: Ernesto, white pastel on grey paper
Ode to Michelangelo (Mauro II), pencil drawing framed
Entwined, charcoal and pastel on grey paper, framed
Enough, charcoal and pastel on grey paper, framed
charcoal drawing copy of M. Fortuny original
Hellcat at the Pitti, charcoal and pastel framed art, shown with Zebra Lips Marble Sculpture
Niccolò da Uzzano Portrait, after Donatello, charcoal and pastel on grey paper
La Pausa, pastel on black paper, smoking man in silhouette, framed
Il Dono (The Gift), pastel and charcoal on brown paper
Sleeping Angel, pastel drawing inspired by Caravaggio
pencil drawing, self portrait of artist Vasily Fedorouk
framed limited edition print of The Triumph of Icarus
Relinquish, with bronze sculpture Valentine on the mantel
Eric, male nude tabletop sculpture shown with pastel drawings: Coral Corridor (Siena, Italia) and Pensive in Bologna
Detail of the beautiful Eric, bronze sculpture of a young muscular man seated
Oh Boy! unique bronze mirror of five nude male figures
Detail of man and bird in Warrior Spirit
The Unwritten Future graces this contemporary bathroom
Tranquility, Peace, and Vivacity bronze tiles. Available as set or as singles.
Valentine bronze with charcoal patina
Reginald bronze figure made the Austin American Statesman
Chest Piece, bronze wall hanging (or put on small table easel)
Shield may be exhibited inside or out. Would look amazing on a gate!
Celebrating men with this bronze Gregg
Against the Dying of the Light, bronze beauty in the struggle against something larger than oneself. Detail of head profile below:
Apollo, god and dolphin, stone by Vasily
Male Torso, Marble, 8 x 15 x 7 in, sculpture by Vasily Fedorouk
Centaurus, Marble, 13 x 10 x 5 inches, stone sculpture by Vasily Fedorouk
Trust, Granite, 22.-5 x 18 x 7 inches, stone sculpture by Vasily Fedorouk
Spaceman, Limestone, 17 x 16.5 x 4 inches, stone art by Vasily Fedorouk
Phallus, marble, 23.5 x 11 x 8 inches, sculpture by Vasily Fedorouk
Peeping Tom, limestone, 13 h x 6 x 6 inches, by Vasily Fedorouk
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In my two shops on the Etsy platform, I have moved all of my nude artwork listings, in many different formats (from digital downloads to prints I make and ship to you, and a few selected original works) to the second shop here:
https://borsheimartsstudio.etsy.com
Enjoy. I hope to keep adding content to both shops.
[The main shop is: https://borsheimarts.etsy.com ]
Thank you for following my art and career. Share this newsletter link if so moved.
Best,
Kelly
https://BorsheimArts.com
P.S. Two vertebrae in my middle rib cage area were broken in an accident on the beach (well, perhaps the wave INTENDED to slam me into the seabed as I turned towards the shore, I was not able to ask). The doctors and rescue staff told me repeatedly to stay still on my back (for five days) or I risked losing the use of my legs. I had surgery in Livorno, Italy, on 25 July 2023, to stabilize the vertebrae by installing eight screws and some titanium bars in the surrounding bones of my spine. And I can walk.
My siblings set up this page to share the story. If interested, click here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/back-surgery-rehab-for-sculptor-kelly-borsheim
Thank you.
Dear Art lover, I had a very different newsletter planned for the end of July. And here it is the first of August. I discovered on my 59th birthday yesterday that I have THIRTY TWO metal staples in my back. The bandage was changed for the first time since leaving the hospital in Livorno, Italy, last Saturday afternoon.
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Will write more later, as I can.
Thank you for following my art and career. Share this link above if so moved.
Best,
Kelly
P.S. If you find something you like, there is no more helpful time than to buy it now:
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Fine art prints, as well as art on different products from other sites:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
Thank you!
]]>"Il Sacro nell'Arte Contemporanea" (The Sacred in Contemporary Art), Tuscany, Italy:
Art Opening: This Sunday, 2 July, at 16,30 p.m., inside La Pieve dei Santi Ansano e Tommaso (a church documented from 879 A.D.!) in Castelvecchio in Valleriana, Tuscany, Italy.
36 artists, paintings and sculpture. [This event had been planned in 2020 before Covid reared its ugly head.]
Hours: Exhibit continues through 24 September, open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again from 3 - 7 p.m.
Castelvecchio, one of the ten castled villages of Swiss Pesciatina, just 20 minutes north of Pescia. Pescia lies on the train line between Florence (Firenze) and Lucca / Viareggio.
Hampton Bays, NY, United States ·
Exciting Announcement: Our SINGULART Artists are set to exhibit at Holiday House Hamptons!
This prestigious interior design showhouse serves as a platform for top designers to showcase their exceptional skills while raising vital funds for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (@BCRF).
For its highly anticipated 5th annual edition, Holiday House Hamptons will be located at 279 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton, NY. The grand opening will take place on Saturday, July 8th, and the showhouse will be open to the public from July 9th through August 27th, 2023. You can visit the house and immerse yourself in the artistic creations from Friday to Sunday, between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm (closed Monday through Thursday).
Don't miss the opportunity to explore the showhouse and discover the remarkable works of our esteemed artists: Robert Mann, Art Shirin Donia, Francesco Alpigiano, Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, Yannick Bouillault Sculpteur Métal, Isabel Kleinert, Emi, Shelton Walsmith, Art Elena Barón, Mr. Popcorn, and Klaus W. Rieck Bildhauer Sculptor.
Holiday House Hamptons:
Where: 279 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton, NY USA
What: Interior Design Showcase as Fundraiser for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (@BCRF).
Opening: Saturday, July 8th
Open to the public from July 9th through August 27th, 2023. Friday to Sunday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (closed Monday through Thursday).
For general admission, secure your tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holiday-house-hamptons-tickets-599973275217
I have one lovely painting of Chianti wine, grapes, and Parmesan cheese, priced to sell in this event held in the Quantum Leap Winery showroom. I wanted to do another painting in which there was text (the wine bottle label) and you recognize it as such, but cannot read it. That, and the joy of painting semi-translucent grapes.
GROUP ART EXHIBITION CLOSES 16 July 2023:
Quantum Leap Winery - 1312 Wilfred Dr, Orlando FL
This group art exhibit has been inspired by food and wine, how it's prepared, grown displayed and consumed. This exhibit will be on display until mid July at this elegant Orlando winery.
Artscape is honored to have the following artists participating in this event:
Jim Bagwell, Kelly Borsheim, Richard Bowser, Sara Burr, Nelson Cardenas, Mirjana Cesar, James Chonody, Roland Cruse, Keri Darlington, Monica Diaz, Nicora Gangi, Barbara Hart, Ann Heilbron, Dennis Hood, Mike Jakubowski, Elizabeth Levine, Gustavo Llenas, Steven Madow, Olga Mendez Paredes, Ann Rank, Edward Russell and Karen Whitacre.
Please email questions about the art to: theartofescapes@icloud.com
ABOUT THE VENUE & EXHIBIT INFORMATION:
This elegant winery is located in the heart of Orlando. Dedicated to producing high quality wines from grapes sourced from all over the world. The tasting room is open throughout the week for guests to sample wine as they view the artwork on display.
Exhibition Dates: May 23 - July 16, 2023
Artscape @ QUANTUM LEAP WINERY
1312 WILFRED DR.
ORLANDO, FL 32803
Tel. (407) 730-3082
HOURS OF OPERATION:
TUES - THURS: 12PM to 7PM
FRI - SAT: 12PM to 8PM
*Please note, we occasionally close early for private events please check the website calendar.
Please email questions about the art to: theartofescapes@icloud.com
https://www.artscapeart.com/events
Do you? Think about how birds have been used in art and life throughout the story of mankind. They are messengers (not just of letters, but also the storks bring human babies)! Birds sing to communicate, as well as when the rain stops and as the sun rises (helping us pay attention to Natural wonders). They even sometimes protect or attack us, as the situation may be. In short, they inspire us and their ability to fly represents freedom, faith, hope, and curiosity (are they not often so exotic?). Birds give us MUSIC and its emotions.
Some quotes I found about these majestic or even just cute creatures with often serious faces, dangerous-looking feet, and a certain air of "the Devil may Care" and "Just be Yourself" attitude about them are here:
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"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind." - Carly Simon
"Birds Bronze Sculpture" Murmuration: See more here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/bronze-statue/products/murmuration-birds-in-flight-bronze-sculpture
This small bronze tabletop sculpture of a flock of birds flying in the shape of a large bird has a dark patina. After application, the patina was buffed to expose the bronze metal as highlights, adding interest to the statue.
This one-of-a-kind bird sculpture looks great on a tabletop or in a niche. The base is a square piece of thick black granite. The artwork ships from Sanford, Florida.
Click the above link to see more images, as well as the story behind the sculpture, and the price.
See a video taken of this sculpture 'Murmuration' (23 seconds):
https://youtu.be/CPeVy6pk7sY
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." ~ John Berry
Birds of Paradise diptych: ok, so not actual birds, but . . . lovely!
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/acrylic-paintings/products/birds-of-paradise-diptych-paintings
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“Wherever there are birds, there is hope.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
'Songbird': read the story of this artwork on my site at:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/songbird-old-woman-listening
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"I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear.
And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen."
- Terry Tempest Williams, 'Refuge: An Unnatural History Of Family And Place'.
My dear friend and fabulous artist and designer Dragana Adamov created these elegant plates (and several more designs all available on my site). Check this out here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/dragana-adamov-collection-plate-bird-on-hand
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"In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence." ~ Robert Lynd
Swan in Portugues Rose marble new video taken days ago. See the progress here on my YouTube channel (only 2 minutes and 18 seconds):
https://youtu.be/foMjIwLssu0
Find other works related to birds or flying here
https://borsheimarts.com/search?options%5Bprefix%5D=last&page=3&q=bird
(or just type "Bird" in the search area of my site's menu bar):
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Here are a few other quotes related to birds:
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~ Henry Van Dyke
“The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly.”
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." - Henry David Thoreau.
A wise old owl sat on an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
(Edward Hersey Richards)
I have a lot of other art offerings that may appeal to you, from some selected fine art originals to prints of 2-dimensional artworks to digital papers you may use for all sorts of things from junk journaling, gift wrapping, and collage. I also offer printable bookmarks, use to your personal content, arty gift tags for most occasions (and I take suggestions if you would like a favorite Borsheim artwork as a printable piece). In addition, I have many of my photographs available for less than $10 US that you may enjoy as instant downloads to create your own note cards or prints of many kinds.
From now through the 5th of July, I am hosting a 15% off sale on all of the listings in BOTH of my shops on Etsy. Have a look, if you like.
Most art offerings may be found here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
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I recently reopened my second shop and am slowly moving over all of my nude artwork there. No matter how tasteful my drawings and paintings and sculpture are, I am always reminded that they are not the "cup of tea" for everyone. Thus, if you love classical style nude artworks, this shop (or my site!) may be more for you:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimartsStudio
My recent 5-week trip to the US was whirlwind and a bit stressful. But so many of you made it incredible for me and I hope that I gave back something worthwhile, too. Too many friends I had not even told I was coming for fear I would not be able to fit everyone in. [And I did not.]
I feel grateful to those creative people who took the two short painting workshops that I taught in North Carolina (with a special shoutout to the amazing artist Jeanne Jarrett Rhea who organized the classes and hosted me). I want to name all who were so generous with me, but fear forgetting someone. That said, my brother Steve Seiler surprised me by driving me great distances to the places in the Southeast that I needed to go. And he even let me take his car for several days. I had not expected that, nor would I have ever asked for it.
I got to help celebrate my dad's landmark birthday with him, as well as his little sister's (whose birthday was on Mother's Day this year). Family time was short, with only my immediate family and two aunts, but precious to me. I also was blessed to meet my newest nephew, almost two years old! Sadly, I was unable to see all of my nephews and nieces.
Some friends by chance contacted me and squeezed me in. I worked a LOT, but I tried desperately to spend quality time with my family and those dear ones that I did get to visit. I had not been back to the States since May 2019, with Covid destroying most opportunities for so many worldwide.
This trip was special, as I look back and have a little more time to actually appreciate all of the things that were accomplished and enjoyed.
I cannot thank you all enough.
For those in the US, enjoy however you celebrate the upcoming Independence Day holiday. I have started back to carving stone, painting the figure, and trying to find a balance in my life. I am happy you are a part of all that I wish to accomplish. Thanks so much.
Yours truly,
Kelly Borsheim, sculptor
More to see:
https://BorsheimArts.com
See how the art is created: Subscribe to my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts
If you would like to see more behind-the-scenes posts about my artistic life, you may become a patron of the art at any level at:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
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* Teaching: May 20: Cary, NC
* Art Reception: 25 May ~ Orlando, Florida
* Gymnast marble gets some new colorful surroundings
* Texas for bronze foundry work
Dear Art Lover,
Breaking News: exhibit in Orlando, Florida with the opening soon! Scroll down for that info and invitation.
First, another painting workshop. The one last Saturday was a hit, with 11 total students, and THREE pairs of mothers with daughters. We all really enjoyed the Mother's Day Tea with flower painting and some art history thrown in there. Here is a still shot from the videos I took during the workshop.
Next workshop is in CARY, North Carolina: Your choice to paint in the medium you prefer (bring what you like) and choose at least one of 8 different flower images to use as reference (I bring those). I will explain the centuries-old Atelier method of transferring compositions and some of the visual artist's alphabet tools at your disposal. Any style of painting is welcome because you are the artist, you are the boss!
Floral painting workshop, Saturday, 20 May, 1:30 - 6 p.m.
hosted by the Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild in Cary. Classes taught at:
Cary Quilting Company
935 N. Harrison Avenue
Cary, NC
$55 fee to participate.
* Contact me at sculptor@borsheimarts.com if you would like the supply/materials list before the class starts. Just pay when you arrive. Beginners welcomed and encouraged.
https://www.facebook.com/CarolinaMixedMediaArtGuild
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THEME
Gastronomy is an art exhibit inspired by food and wine. This might include a portrait of your favorite chef, still life paintings, a beautiful picnic scene, your favorite dish or beverage. We will also be including some abstract pieces and floral artworks.
ABOUT THE VENUE & EXHIBIT INFORMATION:
This elegant winery is located in the heart of Orlando. Dedicated to producing high quality wines from grapes sourced from all over the world. The tasting room is open throughout the week for guests to sample wine as they view the artwork on display.
Exhibition Dates: May 23 - July 16, 2023
Opening Night May 25th, 6-8 p.m. [And I will be there! Probably with some of my family]
Artscape @ QUANTUM LEAP WINERY
1312 WILFRED DR.
ORLANDO, FL 32803
Tel. (407) 730-3082
HOURS OF OPERATION
TUES - THURS: 12PM to 7PM
FRI - SAT: 12PM to 8PM
*Please note, we occasionally close early for private events please check the website calendar.
Please email questions about the art to: theartofescapes@icloud.com
https://www.artscapeart.com/exhibitions
For more information about the winery, go here: https://quantumleapwinery.com
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The historical home behind my marble sculpture, the 'Gymnast' in Sanford, Florida, is getting a new paint job, a new palette, as I write. The Palms of Sanford is owned by my Superwoman sister Amber and her charming and hard-working husband Alex.
What new colors would you think look wonderful in this three-story family home?
Here is the "before" image of the Gymnast on long-term exhibit before the paint job. Stay tuned for the "after" shots. It is so fun how color combinations really affect the voice of a space!
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The day after the artist's reception at the Quantum Leap Winery in Orlando, mentioned above, I will be returning to central Texas. In case you have been following the portrait commission that I have been working on for months now (see my YouTube channel), this is the stage in which I will do some of the wax work at the bronze foundry.
I anticipate four to five solid working days there before I must return east. I doubt that I will have much free time, but in the case that I might, contact me if you would like to get together. I miss so many of my friends in Texas and it has been four years since being there due to Covid.
In any event, Happy Memorial Day weekend soon in the US. And enjoy May if you happen to hang your hat somewhere beyond those borders.
Thank you for your being a part of my artistic journey, as well as for your friendship.
Yours truly,
Kelly Borsheim
P.S. This art newsletter is dedicated to my father, who just passed his 80th birthday. I was fortunate enough to be able to share that with him. His passion was flying. While he worries about how my passion can make for a healthy life, he still shows his support in so many ways. He worries, he questions, he suggests, and he loves me, despite my flaws and struggles at times. I love you, Dad!
More to see:
See how the art is created: Subscribe to my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts
If you would like to see more behind-the-scenes posts about my artistic life, you may become a patron of the art at any level at:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
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Dear Art lover,
"April showers bring May flowers," he keeps saying to me in his Italian accent, trying to learn this English phrase. But now yes, I am here in Virginia with family writing to you and enchanted by blooms everywhere, having visited Norfolk's Botanical Gardens. Happy May!
If you are anywhere near North Carolina soon and want to paint flowers, there are still a few slots in each of TWO different four-hour floral painting workshops I am teaching this month, starting next week!:
1) The Sanford Brush and Palette Club is hosting a Mother's Day Tea and Floral painting program on SATURDAY, May 13. Come paint with your mom or any friend and walk away with some new ways to explore painting. Details and sign-up are here:
https://sanfordarts.org/product/mothers-day-tea-and-floral-painting-may-13-2023/
2) On the following Saturday, The Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild (CMMAG) is hosting a class with me in floral painting on May 20 from 1:30 to 6:00 at the Cary Quilting Company. We have a few openings. Here is a flyer if you want details.
More information about the CMMAG in Cary, North Carolina, can be found here:
http://carolinamixedmediaartistsguild.blogspot.com/
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One of the joys of coming to the US is re-connecting with some of my art. I would like to show you two figure sculptures that have been popular. The first is a limited edition made from one of my very first sculptures in terra-cotta, Leaning Torso , on the left. I worked with a live model and built up the clay in a slab technique, creating her hollow.
The sculpture of the couple on the right is made of bronze (with a marble base) is titled Together and Alone.
Each sculpture shown here is available. Leaning Torso sells for $800, while the bronze couple sells for $4200. As usual, you may take advantage of my Layaway Plan in which you set the amount and the day of the month you wish to pay. No finance charge.
Add some culture and thoughtful works into your home life. It is meant to be enjoyed.
Another favorite is this print on wood (the original Tuscan Table painting sold immediately). I painted this composition because it brought me comfort: memories of family gatherings, as well as the charm of old things as the proof of traditions and the continuing story of people being together in a positive way.
I received this lovely comment in the e-mail and here print it with permission:
Subject: Tuscan Table:
All I wanted to say after all this digital rigmarole is how good this painting is and how much I liked it. I found that, although superficially simple, it is more than it appears and Kelly has taken enormous trouble to find the right values and deal with detail and perspective where it had to be dealt with. The softness and beauty of the colours make it a lovely painting. I am trying to paint portraits and do this with realism as this is the only way I can judge whether or not I have painted well. I find it enormously rigorous and, because it seems so rare, am always struck by it when I see it in another. Bravo.
~ Andrew Harland
Where would you hang this 20 x 15 inch print on wood in your home? $400, including shipping if you mention this newsletter. Let me know, please.
This is a short video to let you see all-around the print on 1/2-inch thick wood panel:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ok-nM4A88dg
Order here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/tuscan-table-home-bowls-wooden-table-rustic-interior-tuscany-italy-fine-art-print-copper-pot-in-fireplace-hearth
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Always multi-tasking, I am visiting the southeastern US for several reasons. My father celebrates a landmark birthday, other family visits after Covid (including meeting my newest nephew!), and . . .
I will soon be on my way over to central Texas to work with a bronze foundry on the portrait commission I have been creating in plastilina (a wax-based clay) for months now.
Check out the many progress videos on my YouTube channel as I built up the shapes of the face and upper body of this man's portrait. As I find time, I will add even more of the final stages in the process as this original sculpture becomes a bronze work of art.
https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts
A new posting (free to all to view):
Video link: https://youtu.be/OCcO3hcpF3s
I will be working with the foundry on the wax stage this trip. And later will return to finish up the bronze work, and possibly also the installation on the Texas ranch.
You may follow my progress in a couple of places, namely YouTube, Patreon (for posts that only art patrons there can see), and occasionally on other social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Exhibit: Il Sacro nell'Arte Contemporanea (The Sacred in Contemporary Art):
Covid changed so many lives and at times, in unexpected ways. After being asked in late 2019 to create a painting with the theme of the sacred, I chose the subject of Ruth in the Bible. Through her goodness, loyalty, hard work, and I imagine some other virtues, she ended up becoming the great grandmother of the Goliath-slaying David. [However, put that way, it seems a dubious honor. Best to know the context of why David became famous: the triumph of the little guy against a mighty oppressor. There, that sounds better, doesn't it?]
The group exhibit is finally happening from July through to September this summer in an ancient church dating to 979 A.D. in Tuscany, Italy. It is called La Pieve in Castelvecchio. I will write more about this church and the painting I created in the next newsletter.
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Celebrating Motherhood with this gorgeous sculpture by Ukrainian-American sculptor Vasily Fedorouk. He carved this piece at my home in central Texas during a stone carving workshop that we both taught together. The movement of the baby, as well as the tiny face is charming. The green marble works with many colors of decor. This is a tabletop stone sculpture.
See details here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-maternity-in-green-marble
I hope you enjoy the things you see here. If not, please visit my site and have a look around. Too much ugly in the world means that we should surround ourselves with what moves us and brings peace, at the very least. Ask me if I can create something you have dreamed up.
Happy Mother's Day soon. I hope that our paths cross sometime soon.
Cheers,
Kelly Borsheim, artist
See how the art is created: Subscribe to my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts
If you would like to see more behind-the-scenes posts about my artistic life, you may become a patron of the art at any level at:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
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Happy February and soon San Valentino, oy! I am so happy to share with you these following artworks.
Finally, my fault entirely, I have gotten a high-resolution image of my large oil painting, Tasmania in the Clouds. The original artwork (80 x 100 cm [about 31.4 x 39.4 inches]) is in a private collection in Tasmania. But now I can offer quality fine art prints and home decor items and share with you this composition of Dr. Seuss-like trees that are so typical of that gorgeous island in the south of Australia. My life was in limbo between Italy and Croatia during the time that I had to send the painting to Tasmania and thus, I was unable to get a good image of my own work. Many thanks to the painting's owner for making this happen!
Click here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/tasmania-in-the-clouds-fine-art-print
Do you enjoy portraiture? I have been rather involved with my portrait commission of a late Texan that will be cast in bronze once I finish the clay sculpture and then make the mold. You may follow my progress in a couple of places, namely YouTube, Patreon (for posts that only art patrons there can see), and occasionally on other social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
I will be returning to Texas to work with my foundry in the Hill Country, but as of this writing, I do not know exactly when. I received more changes from my client this morning, thus extending the work a bit more.
See playlists to focus on any topic of your preference:
https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts/playlists
Example:
Creating Bronze Sculptures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DuF3I1yumc&list=PLl4TycIM5rLKspNtK6vAedBYA7h4GzxNi
Other playlist titles: Pastels, Drawing or Painting Tutorials, Stone Carving Process, and more.
Get more of the behind-the-scenes posts and images of creating the art and some of the wackiness of my life:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
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Do you know about or find useful the little magnifying glass search tool on my site at BorsheimArts.com ?
I have been working on making this more useful by including more keywords on each artwork page. For example, you may enter any word you like in your search for art, such as a location name, partial title to an artwork you know or subject that interests you, a color (are you trying to match your couch?), and sometimes a proportion (tall and narrow, for example).
Try it out!
How the search and menu bars look like on a Smart phone. Below, on a laptop.
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Search "Vasily":
https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=vasily&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Search "Couple Gift":
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-unison-ceramic-sculpture
Vasily was born in the Ukraine and studied art in Kiev. Art ships from the Chicago area of the US.
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Search: Dragana
https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Search "plates":
https://borsheimarts.com/products/dragana-adamov-collection-plate-sisters-shoes
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Search Kumiko:
https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=kumiko&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Search "woman":
https://borsheimarts.com/products/kumiko-suzuki-donna-di-lindau-marble-sculpture
These are all cool and unique gifts for any art collector or even art lover.
I wish you a charming and love-filled Valentine's Day and year.
Thank you for reading... and happy SEARCHING!
Yours,
Kelly Borsheim, artist
P.S. Still looking for affordable and quick gift? Check out my digital download photographs available in my Etsy Shop: BorsheimArts
The most popular image is this one of hanging laundry surrounded by colorful buildings on the island of Burano in Italy. I have a whole series of them for you to choose your favorite or make a small collage-type collection of prints, as you like:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
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Hello and happy holiday times! My brother Steve and I recently visited Munich, Germany, together. During our time there, we took the train on a day trip to Augsburg (one of the oldest cities in Bavaria, Germany). I tend to prefer towns smaller than lovely Munich, and we found a jewel that I wanted to share with you this holiday season.
[I know that this is an art newsletter, but life and creative living are connected. Still, if you prefer to scroll down to the bottom, you will see this month's featured artworks.]
We stumbled upon this Christmas market, which was the smallest I had ever seen. The community was selling Christmas trees (you see the tubes used to wrap them in netting for easier transportation home) and Glühwein (the German spiced mulled wine enjoyed during the winter holidays).
"In 1521, Jakob Fugger signed the charter of foundation for the charitable housing quarter that would later be called 'Fuggerei.' As headquarters of numerous large trading companies at the time, Augsburg was one of the most important economic hubs in Europe and a significant political centre in the Holy Roman Empire.
People of many social classes lived in the economically and culturally flourishing city. Social boundaries existed not only between the rich and the poor, however. Belonging to a certain group or profession also determined the reputation and influence of any individual. Honour was an important value. People, whether rich or poor, were viewed as honourable if they complied with a certain set of societal rules."
The Fuggerei became a place for those in need to be able to live independently and in dignity. They were not allowed to beg. They received low rents and good housing conditions.
The vision started with the three Fugger brothers: Georg, Jakob, and Ulrich. They built a chapel and family crypt in the Church of St. Anne, formerly known as "The Brothers of our Blessed Mother."
In 1506, Georg died. Ulrich followed four years later.
In 1514, Jakob Fugger bought properties to create housing for those proud in need. Two years later, he reached an agreement with the city to regulate the taxation for the anticipated Fuggerei. The yearly rent was set at 1 Rhenish guilder.
The dream of the three brothers was finally realized by Jakob in 1521. That year, he signed a charter for THREE foundations: the Burial Chapel in the Church of St. Anne's, the predicant office at the Church of St. Moritz, and the housing complex at Kappenzipfel, the Fuggerei that exists today.
Jakob stated that only the male descendants of his brothers could lead the foundations. Ulrich's male line died out in the next generation, but Georg's masculine successors have continued to this day. The terms that have been kept by generations of Fuggers include: If possible, the core idea of the foundation must not be changed and be performed for eternity. Per the foundation charter, the person in charge of the Fuggerei must follow the will of the founder, Jakob Fugger.
And despite historic events, challenges, and developments, they have managed to house thousands of residents in this way, mostly without interruption for over 500 years!
Some prime examples of historical struggles: between 1632 and 1635, Swedish troops occupied the city and evicted residents of the Fuggerei for their own use. Afterwards, many of the community houses were destroyed. Since the Fugger Foundations were struggling financially due to missing interest payments, many residents rebuilt their homes.
The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) started as a religious conflict between the Roman Empire and the emerging non-Catholic faiths before growing into a huge and devastating political battle in much of Europe. It taught a powerful lesson to the Fuggers Foundations. Initially, they had investments in assets that yielded interest payments. However, few of those panned out even in the years following the war.
From 1660 onward, the foundation bought estates that included farm and woodlands, i.e., real property. From this they were able to expand forestry practices that sustain the foundations to this very day.
Growing pains: Around 1890, there were so many applicants to enter the Fuggerei that the wait was anywhere from 15 to 18 years to become a resident there!
Centuries after the investment restructure, in 1923, devaluation of currency caused huge losses for many other foundations and charities. The Fugger Foundations survived due to their reliance on property and realty instead of finance. However, the number of applicants for the Fuggerei increased from small businessmen and those who were self-employed, who had not invested in such stable resources.
In 1933, many foundations and charities in Germany found themselves in danger of losing their independence as the Nazi organizations wanted to incorporate them. The discontinuation of tax shelters, as well as large, additional tax payments, enticed the Fugger Foundations to get creative just to survive.
During the Second World War, the Fuggerei community built an air-raid shelter in 1943. Sadly, the air strikes of 25 and 26 February 1944 destroyed seventy-five percent of the Fuggerei neighborhood. 750 people died and 80,000 lost their homes. But only three days later, 1 March, the council decided to rebuild.
Telephone of the former Administrator Baron Von Pölnitz
Many people work in different professions for the Fuggerei: forestry, finances, administration, social education, pastoral care, public relations, building maintenance, archive preservation. The administrator of the Fuggerei is responsible for the management. Moreover, he is available as a kind of mayor for the concerns of the residents.
In the two above and detail below, you see a typical kitchen of the community housing in Augsburg, Bavaria. The wood burning stove is mostly situated in the room behind the wall containing the window. That allows both rooms to be heated, while keeping the dirt, soot, and smoke limited to the kitchen. Food was cooked over an open flame as you see the setup on the right.
The window served two main purposes: to pass things through (tea, anyone?) to the living room, and to monitor activities in that room, for example, for the mother to keep an eye on a young child playing there.
Below you see the typical simple living room in this little museum of community housing in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Tenants have the option also to work at home, thus avoiding slipping into poverty. Note the small window from the kitchen, and the wood burning stove. They used to use a tile type of stove, but they were high maintenance and dangerous. Thus, as technology improved over the centuries, they were replaced with cast iron.
Now you see a simple bedroom. The small cradle with rounded forms to rock the baby is seen a bit on the lower right. The two wooden boxes that look like drawers were actually pulled out each night for small children to sleep in. I found it interesting that it was stated that centuries ago, people slept sitting upright. The horizontal position was too closely associated with death!
Charming, no?
I just could not decide which photos to eliminate, despite the fading light!
Are you as enchanted as I am with this little village inside the city of Augsburg?
You may see it is properly dark now, a few days before the solstice. Steve and I headed back to the central square where the much larger German Christmas market was filled with people and music. We bought the traditional LONG wursts on the much shorter, but still long bun. With mustard, of course! Augsburg is a charming town and we did not see so much of it... imagine what else? We did not have time to see the Mozart homes nor much of anything else, but we both enjoyed learning about the Fuggerei. Good ideas that obviously stand the test of time need to be shared.
Happy holidays from my artist friends and me. Here are two works by the mitico Vasily Fedorouk.
and here is "Children of Paradise," marble:
and my pastel and charcoal drawing: Pensive in Bologna:
Have a wonderful new year celebration. Please contact me if you would like to enhance your home or office with original fine art, or even prints.
Thank you for another wonderful year!
Kelly Borsheim, artist
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Thus, this time, Chris Duell of Austin Concrete Pros is hosting an art give-way to beautify your home or office. He writes:
"I think your Fish Lips bathroom image is a really good example of what can be done with concrete. When people think about concrete (if they think about concrete at all), they think about things like cinder blocks, warehouses, or parking lots. They probably think grey, bland, and boring. They certainly don't think 'beautiful.'
We at Austin Concrete Pros aim to change that. We know that concrete can be as colorful and beautiful as you can imagine. With modern techniques it can be any color or texture you want. That's why we're so excited to partner with Kelly to make your home beautiful, inside and out.
We want to give you a $50 gift card to help you bring Kelly's work to your home or office. All you have to do is go to our website and fill out our contact form and asked to be entered into the giveaway by Saturday Nov 26. We look forward to talking with you more."
https://www.concreteprosaustin.com/
To enter, just fill out the form on the home page with your name and number (so the winner can be contacted) and in the blank for "What do you need help with?" please write something, such as "Subscribe and enter the art giveaway drawing."
Note from Kelly at BorsheimArts: Your certificate will be awarded directly from me, with me fulfilling your order WITHOUT any storefront or Web site. You have several shops online of mine to choose what you would like (as well as from the guest artists' works on my site), but for the gift to work, do not order off of any site. You show me what you want in an e-mail or message and I send it to you. If the value of the art item(s) you want is more than $50 US, then I will create a special listing for you on my site to pay the difference only.
Above: This print of a lovely woman in "come hither pose" with her other half of the hunting blue panther looks great over a stunning concrete floor in this living room scene.
Venice Shoe is an illustration by Serbian-Italian artist Dragana Adamov. It is inspired by her love of shoe design, using Venetian symbols: the shoe as a gondola, with gondolier, the Lion of Venezia, the Grand Canal, and Italian architecture. Shown here is a gorgeous outdoor patio area next to the infinity pool.
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CYBER SALE on Etsy shop BorsheimArts
To help you get the most out of the gift from Chris at Austin Concrete, the entry deadline is before this Etsy sale expires. And useful for all is that I am participating in Etsy's Cyber Sale with my shop: BorsheimArts.
Etsy Cyber Week Sales Date: Nov 18, 2022 6:00 AM—Dec 1, 2022 6:00 AM
Your offer: Discount: 20% off when you buy 2 items, prices in my Etsy shop range from $2.59 to $4600, so potential savings are dramatic during this event only.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
I have started to create smaller art products that are also functional... the newest are printable art bookmarks. A great way to make your own stocking stuffers, satisfy the readers in your life, or even use them as gift tags on the presents you give. Print as many as you like for personal use, making these unique art gifts an even better value.
The other great thing about my printable art products is that you may buy and enjoy from anywhere in the world, and with no shipping delays.
However, there are also original artworks and prints that I make, PHYSICAL artworks, available and if you are giving those for holiday gifts, please factor in that this is a busy time for all and that there have been delays in shipping that may also happen this year.
Above: printable set of five bookmarks based on my original charcoal drawing of a stack of antique books and an old oval frame. This design is titled "Library of Dreams."
Download here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1324627434/printable-bookmarks-stack-of-books
Your favorite bookmarks get old and frayed? Buy printable bookmarks and then print new copies as needed to keep living the art-filled life. Here is Library of Dreams.
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Portrait Bust commission and Patreon Supporters Benefits
Stay safe, live well, and send me your comments and/or questions.
Kelly Borsheim
https://BorsheimArts.com
"At Everything Austin Apartment locators we like to think of ourselves as more than just apartment locators. We want you to be able to get everything you can out of our city and your home.
To that end, art can be one the most important ways to personalize your home. That's why were excited to be giving away a $50 gift card to Borsheim Arts, so you can enjoy work from Kelly and her guest artists.
Just go to our site below and sign up with your email address
by Sunday, 9 October 2022
and YOU will be eligible to win. It's a really easy decision. Offer open to your friends and family, as well as anyone who wants to participate. Happy browsing our site!"
Sign up here before 9 October ends:
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Here are some sample images of Austin, Texas, area apartments with BorsheimArts works added digitally to help you see how something might look in your new home.
*** The Fine Print: You may use the gift certificate to purchase any available art I offer on my online shops. Browse those sites (listed towards the end of this newsletter) to decide what you would like, but I do not have a way to honor a gift certificate online. Thus, the winner should contact me directly,
https://borsheimarts.com/pages/contact
to let me know what your choices are. I will send you the items myself.
[Please note the Etsy shop sale below. It starts after this Giveaway concludes.]
I have (almost) always felt privileged when a person includes me in a personal part of her (or his) life. I am referring to those kinds of things that two people share in an often quiet moment, such as when viewing a powerful sunset or one-to-one learning situation. This pastel artwork is a painting that I did of my friend Hafiza in her home near Florence, Italy.
We were both sitting on Hafiza's bed talking, while she slowly gathered a warm blanket over her lap and legs. She had paused to formulate her thoughts before speaking and then, I saw her turn her head towards the window. She had heard a bird singing outside for just a moment and I realized almost simultaneously that we had not heard any birds in a while and also that the light coming through the window and falling onto my friend was truly lovely. I asked her to stay still for a moment.
I am having a good time with pastels and enjoying the transitions areas, such as blending pinks and oranges into the folds of the curtain behind my friend, as well as the grey parts of her back-lit hair. In the second detail image, you can see the radiator and bed. Although I tend to work in a realistic style, I am trying to do this with fewer strokes. And I worked to depict the texture of fringe vs. the other soft parts of the blanket.
Maybe you did not hear the bird's song, but I hope that I was able to depict a feeling on intimacy and peace, and maybe even sharing the joy of spending quiet time with a dear friend.
This painting was created in pastels on white sanded Wallis-brand Museum grade paper. It is a thick strong paper and offers a subtle texture to the art. Like all of my pastel and charcoal artworks, this one has been treated with a fixative spray and will ship safely to your home or office.
This artwork is framed and ready to hang. Please inquire if she touches you.
https://borsheimarts.com/products/songbird-old-woman-listening
Back to memories of Florence, Italy: I knew that at some point I would paint Piazza Ciompi in Florence. There is a seemingly random-appearing raised platform of stone with square columns and repeating arches over it, right next to a flea market - antique shops that are more like sheds. This platform appears to have had no purpose other than marking one part of an edge of this mid-sized city square or shelter from the rain.
During one of my many walks past this structure, I noticed the light filtering into the city and between these square columns. To my delight, a young woman was enjoying a moment in the winter sun reading her book while leaning against one of these columns. I stopped in my tracks and began to work out the painting in my mind. Later, as I got closer, I realized that she is a friend of mine! Even better.
This pastel painting (only a 9" x 12" on panel) is titled after the sign on the "shed" behind the reading girl. It says simply, "Libri, Riviste E Fumetti", Italian for "Books, Magazines, and Comic Books."
https://borsheimarts.com/products/libri-riviste-e-fumetti-girl-reading-art
P.S. The piazza has since been renovated and the flea market moved to another location (Piazza Annigoni). Those shacks no longer exist.
Eve was doomed from the very beginning.
And yet, is there not some beauty in almost every person? (I would like to remove "almost" but fear I might sound too idealistic - ha!) So, this next pastel painting comes from another one of my explorations of the duality in our humanity. Imagine a modern day Eve (any woman actually) who follows her passion, but hesitates as she is reminded of a cultural weight. The future might be full of love and family and even fame (in Eve's case), and yet, that apple . . .
I do not know. I could go 'round and 'round with all interpreted meanings of my latest pastel painting (and the bible). Sometimes an apple is just an apple . . . It will be more interesting to learn how YOU feel about this image.
Extra note: Wonderful to have this opera singer Caitlin pose for a drawing. I met her while I was street painting in Florence, Italy, as she passed by with her dog. After a short introduction and chat, I asked her to sing at an art exhibit that next evening, in which I had some work. I had not heard her sing, but how many people will say that they have performed more than once if they suck? I took a chance and got permission for her to do her thing . . . and she was AMAZING! I do not know much about opera, but she definitely made everyone stop looking at art. Such a presence and what a lovely voice. Here, I painted her as Eve, the reluctant temptress [for who would willingly accept that job?].
Check her out here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/reluctant-temptress-pastel-portrait-of-eve
In an effort to allow more people to enjoy the visuals I create, during Covid I reopened my Etsy shop and have been actively adding art to it. There I offer a wide variety of art prints, digital photographs, digital papers, and art gift tags, as well as some vintage posters for all budgets.
To give even more value to the gift certificate offered by Chris above, I will start a sale once his giveaway signup has passed.
Enjoy this October SALE of digital format artworks and photographs, gift wrapping paper and art gift tag printables, start here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
Find what moves you and great gift giving... so many kinds of art to share!
A few days only, SALE runs from 9 October through to 16 October 2022.
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Other sites with BorsheimArts : Live with Art in many forms
Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BorsheimArts/shop
Fine Art America:
My usual place to order framed prints (choose your frames online and have the art shipped directly to your door, ready to hang... great gift service!)
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
In closing, I want to send out loving arms to those in Florida, where I spent many of my school years and still have family and friends. But even if I did not, a hurricane is one of Nature's beasts, bringing at times necessary rains, but in the wake of destruction. It is a concern for safety regardless of connections. We must look out for one another best we can.
Stay safe, live well,
Kelly Borsheim
https://BorsheimArts.com
** New Painting: Venezia Fish Market at Night
** New Painting: Vineyard in Fog, Montecarlo
** New Pastels, color explorations
** Pre-Labor Day Sale of digital format artworks and photographs
** My art printed on products
** TWO lovely stone sculptures by Vasily Fedorouk
** Wearable illustrations by Dragana Adamov
** Small bronze portrait by Kumiko Suzuki
Dear Art Lover,
How wonderful to be able to write to you to share new art! How has your August gone? I have taken the opportunity of hot days, thankfully finally followed by some storms, short, but some left some rain in their passing... such a joy!
I put a pause on the stone carving while I picked up my brushes again: Creating by the seasons, as it were.
Two new paintings, both are 50 x 70 cm (just under 20 x 28 inches). Both are painted with oils, but one is on primed wood panel, while the other was painted on a gallery-wrapped canvas.
I love the nights and when I can, I enjoy walking around to see how the limited light and dark skies enchant and intrigue. This scene shows the fish market in Venezia, Italia, on the right. The Grand Canal is just under the palazzo on the left, between it and the footbridge. I loved the way the neon sign reflected into the jostling low waves of the water.
As I did in several of my pastel drawings of Morocco back in 2013, as well as a more recent charcoal drawing of Venice, Italy, I also put in a lone figure in this scene. You may note the woman hiding behind a wall, looking over her shoulder. I will allow you to tell the rest of the story . . .
Click here for more information: https://borsheimarts.com/products/venezia-fish-market-at-night-oil-painting
This painting was inspired by a foggy evening at dusk. I had helped with my landlord's olive harvest in 2018. It was a year in which we had three times the volume of olives than what was normal. Thus, on 3 December, he and his brother chose to go to the olive press (frantoio) of their cousin in Montecarlo (Tuscany). I went along for the ride, never having been to that particular location.
After exploring the frantoio, I decided to take his dog Gregory da Pisa out to explore the darkening day. Next door was a vineyard, ready for winter sleep it seemed. There was enough light to see the homes on the hill behind the grapevines.
Enchanting! Later, when I decided that this scene was a painting, I wanted to give myself a challenge to make a painting that I liked using only a purple, a Venetian red, and white. I wanted to see how many cool and warm mixtures I could make on the canvas.
I love the result! Vineyard in Fog, Montecarlo is oil on a 50 x 70 cm (about 20 x 28 in) canvas. It is gallery-wrapped with the sides painted as if the image continued. Thus, framing is optional. Let me know if I may package this up for you and ship her out. Shipping is included in the price.
Thanks to Jane Sulicich for taking this photograph of artist and art in front of the home I rent.
I recently finished my second online course in 2 years with The Colorist Casey Klahn. He is a wonderful artist and person who lives in the Seattle, US, area. With every new artwork I create, no matter the medium, I want to learn something, as well as express an idea.
Casey is interested in color as the reason for a painting, the language of the painting. He prefers that color take precedent over tone, a difficult idea for me to grasp! As he said, "The colorists' work is not about light. Color is, from one way of looking, energy. It involves light in the science of seeing, but pigments and the interactions of color are quite different from just 'light.' Light does not explain color as a subject."]
However, I am very interested in the emotional response to color, so Casey is my go-to artist.
I also enjoy his teaching because he is not interested in teaching his students how to paint like him. Thus, when he critiques our work (subject matter, if not a copy for learning, is up to us), he does not say, 'Use this color here,' for example. Instead, he will ask us to 3-d plot out our color choices of a work-in-progress, then look for how dynamically the plot is laid out. Examining the plot, you would be in a better position to choose whether to add or remove a color based on the energy you wish to portray. Per Casey, an odd number of hues in a composition creates more dynamic paintings. [Not all artworks need to be dynamic in energy. The idea is for the artist to understand what emotion s/he is communicating and how best to use color to do that.]
Or Casey may suggest with words, as he critiqued one of my projects:
"A triad of the secondaries [purple, orange, and green] is very stable, and can be TOO stable. One way to save this triad is to modify ONE. For example, modify ONE secondary (make it duller [less intense] or make it a tertiary). Another way: ADD two hues that are tertiary. Another way: add one primary and one tertiary." Do you see that those solutions enable one to keep an odd number of hues, assuming she had one from the onset?
Other quotes I like, as he strives for something new:
"When painting freely, there is no right or wrong. If there was, no progress would be made in the history of art."
"Colors inter-relate and have actions, one upon the other. And they cause reactions in you."
~ Casey Klahn
Each of us has our own sense of color, whether or not we recognize that. I have heard so many times, "I know nothing about art, but I do (or do not) like that painting." One need "know" nothing. Visual artists are trying to communicate in a different language than the spoken one. You just need to FEEL something. If you do not, then the artist has failed in that one artwork for YOU. Other people will respond differently, perhaps.
It is why it is so thrilling when someone connects with a work of art: it is not easy to touch a button in someone else's soul.
So without further ado, here are some of my finished explorations [some images are in the next section below this one]:
* Settignano Purple Tree https://borsheimarts.com/products/settignano-purple-tree-tuscany-italy-pastel-art
* Mystic Olive Grove https://borsheimarts.com/products/mystic-olive-grove-tuscany-italy
* Orange Tuscan Hills https://borsheimarts.com/products/orange-tuscan-hills-pastel-painting-original
* Tuscan Road in Shadows https://borsheimarts.com/collections/pastels/products/tuscan-road-in-shadows-pastel-art
I offer many types of art in my Etsy shop for those on a budget. Although there are some original art pieces, most are prints, or even select small artworks, as well as photographs and drawings in digital format. I started those during Covid to make it safer for people to receive a file and print out at home or online, as you choose. It allowed people to stay home and still do fun things, such as decorate the home or use the images to make note cards to mail to friends and family (or even in the same house!) to help us all feel connected.
Enjoy this Pre-Labor Day SALE of digital format artworks and photographs, start here to see the pastel artworks I just wrote about:
Etsy landscapes: https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts?section_id=31941956
Pre-Labor Day SALE on Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
Find what moves you and great gift giving... so many kinds of art to share!
A few days only, ending early on 2 September, Friday.
Printing my work on products you live with every day has always interested me. I started off on that foot with Print-on-Demand art supply Fine Art America. Recently, I decided to get started on Redbubble. I have known about them for years and wish I had started my own shop there years ago, but at times, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of time I spend on the computer. These images will show you some of the things you may buy there. I am not sure, but they may have a sale going on, for the entire site. Check my shop out at:
BorsheimArts on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BorsheimArts/shop
Fine Art America:
Onsies! And so much more: My usual place to order framed prints (choose your frames online and have the art shipped directly to your door, ready to hang... great gift service!)
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
Vasily Fedorouk was my friend. A Ukrainian-American sculptor, we met in 2001 at the sculpture symposium in Marble, Colorado. Over the years our friendship grew and he taught me so much about art, especially in the old European-Russian way of thinking. I would love to find great and loving homes for his work. He died in 2009, after saving his dog Era from drowning: such a horrible end to a noble act.
In the sense of all true artists, he experimented with shapes and themes, and even combined materials, as you will see in "Magic Square" [the black granite and a glass lens composition]
His wife will ship the artwork from the Chicago area. Just contact me or visit his site directly at: http://www.vasilyfedorouk.com/index.html
I love this marble sculpture of a flame with bas-relief figures carved into the side planes. This is a fairly large sculpture (about 1 meter / yard high) and can grace the indoors or an outdoor garden area beautifully.
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-fire-dance-marble-figure-sculpture
34 h x 7 w x 7 inches
White Marble
copyright 2007 Vasily Fedorouk
Available directly from the family: $6000
I just found this article online. It must have been the last art exhibit Vasily himself was alive to see. Features his Magic Square sculpture.
https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/morning-art-vasily-fedorouk/
Magic Square $8500 20 H x 17 W x 8 D in
As we enter the season of changes, it is smart to adapt clothing to always feel comfortable. Scarves are an elegant way to stay warm in the cooler evenings without having to carry something heavier during the still hot parts of the day, especially if you are out and about in the times between day and night.
Serbian-Italian artist (and my former flatmate) Dragana Adamov is a passionate artist and designer for such brand names as Gucci. Here, we present her own illustrations made into soft scarves.
Dragana: Tiger Shoe Scarf.. perfect for fall adventures!
https://borsheimarts.com/products/dragana-adamov-tiger-shoe-circus-designer-scarf
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This small, but beautifully shaped head of a woman with large bun of thick hair pulled up and back from her skull is a one-of-a-kind bronze sculpture. Created by artist Kumiko Suzuki in wax and cast directly into bronze, this is not a limited edition bronze. Click on the link to see more views and size information.
https://borsheimarts.com/products/kumiko-suzuki-hanakazura-bronze-portrait-of-woman
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September is a beautiful month. I thank you for reading this far and supporting the work of my guest artists, as well as myself.
Peace,
Kelly
BorsheimArts
P.S. And do not forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel [link below] to receive notifications of new postings, and respond if so inspired.
YouTube for instructional and art-making process videos, mostly:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
** Rise – new oil painting by Kelly Borsheim
** Land (Mother Earth) – marble sculpture by Vasily Fedorouk
** Designer Plates make for elegant weddings or gifts by Dragana Adamov
** Small Framed Paintings: The Alps and Fumaria Officinalis by Kelly Borsheim
** Packaging sculpture
Dear Art Lover,
How exciting has June been thus far! I have started on my visions of a series of paintings of man with wild animals. It is thrilling to share with you my newest artwork, Rise. Perhaps you have followed the development of this painting via Patreon or my YouTube channel? Well, here he is completed ….
Rise:
See more images [the original sketch] and information here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/oil-paintings/products/rise-oil-painting
RISE
A lot of my work is about transitions, as well as connections among different life forms. The ego, at times, causes us to lose our way. It is said that we must hit rock bottom in order to rise. You can only go up from there. But not everyone does. It is still a choice.
In this painting, a man is lying down, unaware of us, at rest, perhaps weary. But he is facing the light of a new day. He chooses to get up again. His spirit emerges as a snowy owl, wings spread. The bird of prey has emerged, flying, and is looking directly at the viewer. He wants you to see him or perhaps he is curious to see you.
The number eleven represents “Spiritual Awakening,” and you will see eleven pairs of eyes in this painting. More owls are watching the metamorphosis, perhaps having undertaken this journey themselves.
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Picasso marble is such a fun stone for many sculptors and Vasily enjoyed creating compositions with this gorgeous rock paired with a more solid color rose marble here. The contrast really puts the focus on the Mother Earth figure, woman as landscape.
She will add elegance and inspiration to your home. Stone is perfect for bathroom spaces since it handles humidity better than many other art materials. But the sculpture will go well in any of your smaller spaces, a shelf or tabletop in your living room, as you like.
Note: This small scale sculpture is important to his life’s work because he developed this idea of woman as the land in THREE separate stone carving symposiums. His sculptures became part of the permanent art collections of those sponsoring communities:
See those works here:
Turkey, 2006: http://www.vasilyfedorouk.com/SymposiumStoneCarving/Turkey2006.htm
Alacati, Turkey 2007: http://www.vasilyfedorouk.com/SymposiumStoneCarving/Turkey2007.htm
And back home in his native Ukraine, Baturyn [Baturin] is Land III, 2008: http://www.vasilyfedorouk.com/SymposiumStoneCarving/Ukraine.htm
See more views and purchase here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-land-mother-earth-picasso-marble-sculpture
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These hand-drawn designs by my friend Dragana Adamov continue to enchant and fascinate. Her plate collection makes for elegant weddings or even wedding gifts for art lovers.
Which is your favorite?
These gorgeous designer plates, the Tiger Shoe Circus by Dragana Adamov, bring a unique elegance to this table setting. Discover more:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/dragana-adamov-porcelain-plate-tiger-shoe-circus
Add some personal style to your table with these designer plates from the Adamov Collection. Bird on a Hand design. Buy individually or in numbers.
https://borsheimarts.com/products/dragana-adamov-collection-plate-bird-on-hand
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Here are some small framed paintings for your viewing and buying pleasure. Priced to sell, they make great gifts, too.
And
https://borsheimarts.com/products/fumaria-officinalis-oval-painting
You may also see other current works in progress shown on my channel and Patrons on Patreon get even more behind-the-scenes posts and see new art first.
Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
What do you think? Let me know if you like this sort of content so that I make videos that interest you.
To discover more finished stone carvings, fine art paintings, drawings, prints, and selected artworks from dear friends, please visit:
https://BorsheimArts.com
You will also find art items, vintage Italian posters, digital papers, arty gift tag printables in my Etsy shop at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
Message me if you are looking for something art-wise, but not finding it.
And do not forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel [link below] to receive notifications of new postings, and respond if so inspired.
Thank you and happy solstice,
Kelly Borsheim, sculptor
YouTube for instructional and art-making process videos, mostly:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
For prints and digital downloads:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
P.S. Packaging Sculpture: Sculpture can be fragile, even when heavy, during the shipping process. Unless the artist does the delivery alone, there is no guarantee for how the package will be handled by anyone else. Thus, it is important to understand that objects need protecting from drops, from being thrown (not kidding), and even being put into a truck with the “This side UP” being put on the bottom (also not kidding).
At Borsheim Arts Studio, a heavy sculpture is crated because the wooden box gives a lot more support than any cardboard one. However, often, how the art is packed INSIDE is even more important. Extended parts need protecting. Corners (for this idea is valid for framed 2-d artworks as well) need protecting.
And NOT with those obnoxious free-floating Styrofoam bubbles! If the object is heavier than those are, the object simply pushes out of the way the little buggers in its plunge towards the ground! The only way to use those (if one must) is to put them in a full and securely sealed bag.
Still, we prefer a more solid foam, and use what we can to fill all the spaces around the sculpture. That way, no matter how the box is turned, the sculpture stays put safely inside her travelling container.
To see a video on how I use inexpensive and readily available materials to properly wrap a sculpture for shipping, check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCsTOkIaD0&t=332s
Above: Large bronze sculpture shipped safely from Italy to California in a crate. Inside, the bronze was blocked from moving internally. Thank you to art collector Clement Kong for this photo of the "Rock Towers and Frog Legs" bronze sculpture by Kelly Borsheim
I love the maternal positions of the hands in "The Birth of Beauty" ... one hand with fingers splayed, resting over the tummy in a gesture I have seen every pregnant woman do. The other arm relaxes over the first, palm up, resembling the support of cradling a baby. Do you feel the same?
His wife Dilbarra tells me that Vasily's thoughts were on the rise of harmony, love, and motherhood. Of the two men below Aphrodite that you see in profile, one is old, the other young. However, she is unclear of his intended meaning for the men in those positions. She believes that they are there to protect her, perhaps men inspired by the woman's beauty? Or the two figures represent past and future, while Aphrodite or Venus, is the present. Or perhaps they represent the Eternity of Beauty in the birth of the new.
I personally love art that is open for the viewer to decide his own interpretation, do you?
View more images, size and price information for the marble sculpture "The Birth of Beauty," click here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-birth-of-beauty-marble-sculpture
There is a grace and elegance to this composition of the figure. A slow appreciation of the line, but also the changing of the form when two lives make three.
For different views and more information about the bronze "Pregnancy," go here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-pregnancy-bronze-sculpture
It is a joy to celebrate loving relationships whenever we can and to appreciate one another more than ever. I was catching up with news of the war in Ukraine recently and ran across the phrase "War Crimes." Two powerful words that together express that we apparently have decided that there exists an acceptable level of violence.
And that last thought reminds me of a TED talk I heard years ago about how we use the word "Decided." It stuck in my head all this time because the speaker explains how we often hear phrases that close a door, when in fact, if you listen, you will discover that those chosen words actually mean that the door is open, if just a crack. A clever person will see the opportunity and make himself the exception to the rule.
I feel that way about violence. Maybe not a lot of hope that it will ever stop, but the opportunity is there if enough of us are willing to push. [hahha... see the connection to mothers?]
Find the enlightening video here, "How Five Simple Words Can Get You What You Want" by Janine Driver:
https://youtu.be/L9UIF852Boo
I have been working on several larger / longer projects this year and you may catch glimpses of them on my channel on YouTube or Patreon.
I recently finished carving this large sign (not quite 1800 pounds / 800 kilograms) for my neighbors. If you love how machinery works, as I do, this 8.5 minute video shows the move from the quarry to the stone's new home:
https://youtu.be/1wW0s-Qhn3M
The background story is shared on the YouTube video page.
You may also see other current works in progress shown on my channel and Patrons on Patreon get even more behind-the-scenes posts and see new art first.
Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
What do you think? Let me know if you like this sort of content so that I make videos that interest you.
To see my finished stone carvings, fine art paintings, drawings, prints, and more, please visit:
https://BorsheimArts.com
You will also find art items, vintage Italian posters, digital papers, arty gift tag printables in my Etsy shop at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
[If you buy something, no matter how inexpensive (as many of my digital download photographs, papers, vintage Italian posters, and art gift tags are), I sure could use some reviews to help my shop launch. I have gone back to having only the one original shop and thus, lost the sales numbers and reviews in the shop opened during Covid.]
Message me if you are looking for something art-wise, but not finding it.
And do not forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel [link below] to receive notifications of new postings, and respond if so inspired.
Thank you,
Kelly Borsheim, sculptor
YouTube for instructional and art-making process videos, mostly:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
For prints and digital downloads:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
Welcome to February. Sometimes I wonder why the holiday for love is placed into the shortest month of the year. hahaha... optimist, no? I have been working on stone carving (an abstracted swan design in Portuguese rose marble) when there are sunny mornings. You can catch glimpses of the progress on various social media, mostly in Patreon (link at the bottom of this newsletter), some on my YouTube channel, Instagram, Facebook, my blog, and Linkedin. I debate about TikTok, but really, what a lot of energy to expend. Burnout, ya know?
If you participate in social or online media and want to follow my art posts, please respond to me to tell me which platform rocks your world. I may have to let something go in order to tackle why I am on this Earth now.
My shop BorsheimArts on Etsy is mainly for prints and digital downloads of my photographs and Italian vintage posters, as well as printable gift tags. The digital art products make great last-minute gifts, especially if you have easy access to a printer. Most are well under $10 US! Here are some mock-up images of how you might use your downloads as wall art prints:
The Guggenheim Museum, pair, Bilbao, Spain
Above: Venice, Italy, bridge without rails, photo looks great printed and hung over a couch! [Note also Cattails and Frog Legs resting on the table.]
Romantic, foggy Venice, Italy! charms many and so easy to use in your home decor
Gorgeous detail of a griffon bronze sculpture in a palace in Venice, Italy
Venetian design means narrow streets and intriguing light shapes along the canals
Sirenetta, aka The Little Mermaid, with a green patina on bronze seems to present this lovely image of Venezia, in northern Italy.
Niccolo da Uzzano, banker of the Medici sculpted by Donatello (and then I drew a charcoal of the plaster cast copy) lends a serious air to your home office. While I make these fine art prints, and thus, need a few days to get it to you, the photograph of Florence's Duomo [Cathedral] IS an instant digital download. More to choose from in the shop. Also, on the left, you will see the bronze sculpture Together and Alone (which ships from Norfolk, Virginia).
Dragana Adamov works for some big names in Italian fashion, but here she offers her own personal designs. Check out these scarves, for example of her Tondo (circle) drawing Tiger Shoe:
Vasily Fedorouk: It is amazing the versatility of this artist! Here is a sneak peek into his studio... artwork ships from the Chicago area:
Above: Forbidden Fruit, Adam and Eve sculpture in marble by Vasily Fedorouk, a private commission in Turkey.
The beauty of the female form matched in white Carrara marble, see the figure sculptures of another dear artist friend Kumiko Suzuki:
Donna di Lindau Marble Sculpture by Kumiko Suzuki, portrait of a long-haired woman in stone
and the late great sculptor from Austin, Texas, Charles Umlauf... this Kiss bronze sculpture is privately available. Here is the back view of the standing male figure:
Want to give an art gift but unsure of how it will be received? Allow your loved one to choose the artwork herself!
I will hand decorate a gift card in any amount you wish. I will mail you the real art gift card, or send it to you digitally, in case the shipping arrives too late. A gift card allows the receiver to choose what pleases, leaving your doubts behind.
And you may order as late as the LAST MINUTE! How convenient.
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In January 2015, I was living in Croatia in a small apartment attached to a home with a lovely family. The husband Boro had cancer and his charming wife Miranda, who welcomed me instantly when I arrived on a bus from Italy in mid-December, was his caretaker at home. They live in Umag, which is in the northwestern part of Croatia that speaks Italian. That is how Miranda and I communicated. I found her through a Croatian artist that I met in a carving symposium in Bulgaria in 2014.
I was only to stay there for 90 days. It was a crazy, a bit homeless, time in my life and I left my things in my room at the Salvation Army church in Florence, Italy, where I lived for about one year. Since my stay in Croatia was for only a short time, I packed pastels and small books of papers to draw while I was away. I also brought my Nitram charcoals and the new Baton charcoal stick holder I was sent to try out.
However, the BP Portrait competition (In England) was announced while I was away from home and I decided to apply. Miranda had explained to me the struggles to get doctors in Croatia and her husband was not the only one who received care only from a generous Italian doctor who occasionally crossed the border to visit those who needed him in Istria. Those of you familiar with care-taking know how difficult it can be to watched your loved one suffer and feel inadequate in helping at times.
I was inspired by their story and hoped that I could create a painting of the two of them that might bring some light to this healthcare problem in Croatia. I asked this lovely couple if they would model for me. We tried many poses, me unsure of exactly how I wanted to depict them. As it turned out, after our photo shoot in several different places in their home, I found my inspiration. I was still sitting at their dining room table when Miranda go up and went into the living room to check on Boro.
The casual, but caring exchange I witnessed touched me and you can see my composition develop here. There was no time to ship in materials, even from larger cities in Croatia. Thus, I was thrilled to find a local hobby store that sold a large canvas. The brushes and paints were student grade (weak colors and few neutrals), but it was something. I bought mushrooms and other foods that came in plastic buckets that I needed for painting, as palettes or washing brushes. You may see in a photo that I put popcorn in a plastic cup to use as a brush holder.
I worked in the small space at the entrance of my little apartment. Each evening or early morning, I found time to walk along the sea, not far from Miranda and Boro's home. I was very surprised that there was a professional photographer in the town center who had a copy system set up! I walked my painting to him and he shot proper photographs for my application.
Student-grade brushes mean hairs coming out at inconvenient places, making it difficult to paint well, making marks as intended.
Sadly, after paying the local photographer to document well my painting, I decided it needed something else. Thus, I added a sliver of wall on the left. It added the effect as I remembered seeing this loving exchange between two people who knew each other so very well: the idea of being a voyeur into their private space. I did not want to spend the time or money to take the art back through the town to photograph, so I simply laid it on the floor at my feet and snapped a shot with my camera.
Can you see the hint of the angel's wing and subtle yellow halo behind Miranda? It is horrible enough to suffer because we take that alone, really, but so many loved ones and even paid workers who stay by the side of those who are ill also suffer. I wanted to tribute those selfless persons who give of themselves for love and kindness, but not so obvious as to embarrass Miranda or diminish Boro. I was lucky to be introduced and then live with this couple, especially during the winter holidays. They invited me to share all with them and learn some of their traditions.
You may see more of my adventures in Croatia on my blogspot blog here [use the search bar option to get more specific]:
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com/search?q=Croatia
Ok, so my painting was not selected at any level in the competition, thus my cause was not heard. But I was thrilled that the (grown) children of Miranda and Boro were delighted with how I managed to capture the love between their parents. I gave them the painting, grateful for this family for opening their home to me. I returned to Italy in mid-March 2015. But later, on a call to Miranda, she told me that Boro had died. I still hope to get back to Umago (the Italian name) to visit those I have met, and walk along the sea again.
To see behind the scenes of art projects, such as my marble carving of "When Atlas Tires," join the Patreon page. One collector asked me to show more of the countryside and traditions of where I live in Valleriana, Tuscany.
So, once in a while, I will do that, too.
Here is an example of what you will see on my Patreon page:
Atlas WIP [work-in-progress]:
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Enjoy February and keep showing and sharing the love!
Cheers,
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
P.S. Happy 55th birthday to my brother Steve, and happy birthday to Uncle John.
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If you are considering giving art of any kind, or even any gift other than food or consumables (candles, fire-starters, practical stuff, etc.), this article may be of use to you to help you decide WHAT you would like to give.
My favorite quotes from this article, The Art of Giving from Singulart:
"Your main goal here is to spark an emotion: may it be joy, serenity, confusion or surprise."
"Gifting is about sharing. If you are happy about your purchase, you will share your emotions along with the gift and the recipient will feel it too. So keep it fun and inspiring for yourself too!"
https://blog.singulart.com/en/2020/11/27/the-art-of-gifting/
I currently have four designs of digital download GIFT TAGS. If you visit my Etsy shop, please e-mail me or respond to this newsletter with the link copied from the browser of the ONE image that you would like to use for your holiday gifting, and I will send you the files as shown in the listing.
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See the menu at the left and select the 2nd one: Gift Tags Wrap, click on the one you want and then send me that direct link for your free tags. Buone Feste!
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Vintage Italian Digital Papers: seems an oxymoron, no? I photographed these antique designs hand-printed in Venezia, Italia and turned them into digital papers for scrap-booking, collage, and other craft uses. I hope you enjoy (and more coming, little by little).
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Vintage Italian Posters: Great gifts for kitchen, dining room, or bar decor!
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I am so enamored of this illustration inspired by the Serenissima Island City.
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[Note: I ordered two, and they arrived inside ONE gift bag. Plan accordingly.]
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Fontana di Lucca, oil painting on canvas, 1200 USD: https://borsheimarts.com/products/fontana-di-lucca-painting-of-statue-womans-torso-lucca-italy
Together and Alone, bronze sculpture, 4200 USD: https://borsheimarts.com/products/together-and-alone-bronze-sculpture-of-man-woman-couple
Entwined, charcoal and white pastel on grey paper, framed, 1700 USD:
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Diver, one-of-a-kind marble sculpture, only 1800 USD:
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Pillow, ceramic sculpture --- so fun this one! And only $1000 US!
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Happy Soltice soon enough. Happy holidays! I hope to disappear into my studio in this time of merry-making, but I would love to hear how you spend this month.
Cheers and hugs,
Kelly Borsheim, artist
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]]> It amazes me how some of the people you meet change your life in surprising ways, opening doors to new worlds, and at least another way to see the world. This is what the young and creative Dragana Adamov has done for me.
Our friendship started back in 2008 in Florence, Italy. I moved into a flat with three women, one of whom was Dragana. Serbian-born, but living in Italy, Dragana is a kind and studious person. Before meeting her, I really knew little about Serbia, other than its connection to inventor Nikola Tesla.
It is common to lose one's living quarters often in Firenze, and we only lived together for about six months before we all had to find other homes (through no fault of any of us tenants). However, the friendship between Dragana and me has only grown stronger over the years and expanded to family and other friends.
Above: 2010 Kelly and Dragana at her painting exhibit at La Dolce Vita in Florence, Italy
I have watched this young artist grow and I own some of her work. I want to share with you something of her story because it fascinates me and I really love her creativity, art, and her as a person. [We conducted this interview in Italian, which is not the mother tongue of either of us. However, Dragana speaks and writes fluent Italian. I have translated her words into English, and only hope that I have done well.]
Above: 2012 May: Kelly (recently back from Morocco) and Dragana at her art exhibit at the House of Creativity in Florence, Italy. Kelly bought the small painting between these two artists.
Below: 2012 May: Dragana and Kelly moving Dragana's paintings across the Viale in Florence after the exhibit was over.
Kelly Borsheim: So, Dragana, I have been to your home in Serbia twice now and adore your family. I know that I loved art as a child, but that seemed natural since I have an artist mother. Your parents are farmers. How in the world did you fall in love with art?
Dragana Adamov: The first thing I discovered about myself growing up was the love for art.
As soon as I was able to use the pen, I always drew. I always had a block [of paper] where I drew in any situation I found myself. Then over the years I devoted myself more and more to the theme of "fashion," looking at my mom's high-heeled shoes, and putting them on even though my foot was very small. I couldn't wait to grow up and be able to use them, too! In the meantime I drew shoes (I started when I was 5-6 years old).
Always still so small [Dragana is the youngest of two daughters], and living in an agricultural area, parallel to drawing, I helped my father [Srecko] work in the fields, even driving tractors.
The idea that a little girl can love two completely opposite jobs fascinated me. I liked the idea of being different and not a commonplace child, because for everyone this thing was strange: two passions so contrary from each other.
Tractors, like shoes, are my passions. Unfortunately here in Florence I don't have the possibility to have agricultural machinery, but the passion remains the same.
2012 August 7: Dragana gives Kelly a tractor ride to her family's corn fields in Dolovo, Serbia. Photo by Momma Smilja.
2012: Dragana Adamov uses cornstalks as antlers, farm in Serbia.
2012 August 7: Artists Kelly and Dragana in farming clothes! Dolovo, Serbia.
Dragana: When I was still living in the country, I liked the fact that a girl can do hard work, work more like a man, and in the evening she can go out all dressed up in great shoes and no one would believe her that during the day she drove the tractor in the dirty fields. This fact, for me, has always been a confirmation that there must not be only one pattern / one way in life, in passions.
2018 September: Dragana marries Francesco (also an artist) in style, including a test drive on this enormous John Deere tractor! Oh, and she designed and sewed her own wedding dress. Photos by Kelly.
2021: Dragana Adamov still finds Florence, Italy, to be her creative home, especially with her charming husband Francesco. Photos by Kelly.
Kelly: Now, share with us how your passions have manifested themselves creatively.
Dragana: Over time, in my work, in my illustrations I have always included fantastic shoes, also to go outside of something already seen and already existing. Today there is everything, and everything has already been invented, but our fantasy will always be unique and that is what I apply in "my" shoes.
Above: real shoe designs by Dragana Adamov.
I create these shoes that could not be used, but could be seen applied in different objects, such as scarves, plates, and wallpapers. Thus, I didn't stop in the design of a shoe that can be worn, but of a shoe full of symbols, patterns, and stories. The art has even evolved to the porcelain sculpture shoe as a decoration for the different environments.
For me, the shoe has always been the unmatched and most important detail, jewel, and decor on a woman; the only means to make her elegant and feminine.
The things I always hated are the ordinary and the banal, the less inventive.
I have always adored, designed, and studied shoes. And even today, if I had the opportunity to drive a tractor, I would do it with absolutely the same passion I have for shoes.
Many people feel that Venezia, Italia, is the most beautiful city in the world. She certainly has a personality different from most! Dragana created this design, available only from Borsheim Arts Studio, of a red shoe that is inspired by the Serenissima, just one of the many nicknames for the famed island city in Italy.
Artist Kelly Borsheim shows off a print she bought of Dragana Adamov's design titled Venice Shoe. Buy your art print today!
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Original Art by Dragana Adamov
What do you think of these large paintings inspired by fashion drawings and four of the Greek goddesses: Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, and Demeter?
Athena and Aphrodite paintings splash some color into this neutral home decor.
Goddess Artemis represents birth and virginity. Her purity blue color brightens this living room.
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Athena and Demeter brighten this dining room. Two large paintings by Dragana Adamov.
Artist Dragana Adamov poses in her designed and hand-sewn dress in front of her large abstract painting Aphrodite.
Starry Eyes, another shoe-inspired design, turned into a luxury silk scarf. See more images, as well as this image as a designer plate here:
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2- Why do you like Italy?
I like Italy because I feel that I have found what I always was looking for: One of the most important things for me is culture of this country (certainly art comes first).
3- How did you become an artist?
I have not become, but I have only discovered it within me with time.
4- Was there an important time, a turning point, in your artistic life in Tuscany?
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts (Florence, Italy), I immediately started working for a company that makes furniture. I designed for them and made models in plasticine. I worked there for nine years and after work I dedicated myself to illustrations and contemporary ceramics.
5- Where did you get the idea to use shoes, mushrooms, birds, ... why have you chosen those subjects for your art?
Since I was little I always loved shoes, but always. And I always wanted to design them. Therefore, from the strong passion for them I started doing the illustrations adding motifs from nature, and (non per caso) not by chance at times the motifs that do not go together. I do this intentionally because in this way they become more imaginative, particular and fantastic, like surealism, which I really like as an artistic movement.
6- Why did you choose to design for plates? Or in circles?
I chose the plates as the basis on which to apply my illustrations because it is an object that we all use daily and that everyone can afford it.
7- What made you choose to create scarves?
Having done textile design in high school, and then specialized in fashion in Florence. Fabric has always interested me. to create something that is wearable and in this case I also wanted to use fabrics for my designs. Details that every woman, in my opinion, likes.
8- Tell me how to care for the plates. May I eat on them? Wall decor? How are they made?
The dishes are made of porcelain, they can be used in the kitchen and can be washed in the washing dishes, or as the decorative plates hung on the wall, as you wish.
9- Do I need to wash the scarves by hand? How to keep them clean? Show me several different ways to wear or use the fabric / scarves?
Silk scarves need to be hand washed or dry cleaned, other fabrics can be machine washed at 30 degrees. See images on this site for how to wear my designs.
10- For the plates, what sort of glasses or silverware would you recommend for the table with your plates? Colors? Mix and match?
For the table with my dishes I always propose soft and natural colors. Neutral tablecloth of a natural fabric always in one color. The cutlery always silver color, except when there are plates with gold color, and in this case the cutlery that fits together.
Tiger Shoe designer plate makes any table a festive space, even if not quite a circus.
Miss Mushroom, fantasy shoe illustration made into a designer plate, artist Dragana Adamov
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]]>I carved the stone a little each day, noting that it took me about three days to lose enough of the fear of losing fingers or worse with a diamond blade (but not enough to be careless with such a powerful tool) to start being productive with that tool. But at night I worked on my clay maquette, hoping to stay ahead of myself.
One night a kid (early 20s, I mean) hung out with me while I molded the clay. At some point he began a little speech for me, passionately telling me that I was too limiting with my stone. He asked what made me think my marble block was to be a figure? He chastised me a bit for being so narrow-minded in my vision.
It was an interesting conversation in that it helped me to clarify my thoughts on a topic I had not considered before. While he went on about how I should create without limits, I told him that without limits, creativity does not exist. Creativity is problem-solving. A problem is a limit. I then explained to him that regardless of his free-thinking, I am limited by the length of my life (information not at my disposal) and I was limited by the size of my block, which would never truly become larger, as well as similar limits of time and space, and perhaps ability. Creating without limits is just spewing.
However, it does beg the question about the destiny of a piece of stone. Michelangelo's David is the prime example of a fabulous use of another sculptor's
discarded rock. When I left Texas in 2011, my heart was broken in so many ways. It took me a few years to accept that some stone carving projects had to be let go. Thus, I put out the word that I was selling some stone, some with initial carvings in the works.
In 2005 and 2006, Vasily Fedorouk and I taught two summer carving workshops at my home in the boonies in central Texas. Our former stone carving student George Schreiber bought a lovely piece of Italian alabaster from me. I had started to carve a large round seashell.
My idea was to make it hollow so the translucency of the stone would be featured, but then have a small figure inside, as if he was entering a large cavern.
However, I had not gotten far with just the outer shape when I decided that there was still enough of the rock there for someone else to be able to work with.
Look what George did! One could go round and round about this stone's destiny, but whatever you decide, this particular piece of white alabaster became a portrait of a woman!
George sent me these images of his completed work. I asked him if I could publish the story behind it and also for him to tell me how he chose his subject and inspiration.
Read his interesting commentary:
A philosophy that seems to override anything I might intellectually dream up is: Practice and grow. And the question: Can I?
I had not carved a deliberate human face in stone. Stone drapery blows my mind. The point machine for one-to-one copy fascinates me. I wanted to carve something that shows I have control over what I am doing. I acquired an alabaster stone from Kelly that she had started a shell carving.
The translucency of the stone mesmerized me. I had a clay head left from a bronze I never completed. I made a mold and cast a plaster head.
A friend draped some cloth around her shoulders. I proceeded to sculpt, with plaster, the rest of the bust around the plaster head. Voilà, a plaster maquette.
Then, a first time use for me of the point machine. I am just as proud of the construction of the Croce (cross to which the point machine is attached) as
I am the sculpture. Hundreds of measurements and points and gingerly carving through the stone down to the points and ended up with what you see, and, because of the translucency of the alabaster, sometimes do not see. And there it is: ILLUSIVE BEAUTY.
After he wrote the above, he went off for a walk and came back with more about his inspiration of the portrait:
Abandoning a dream is not easy.
The beginning of a sea shell carved in alabaster is the stone I acquired from Kelly. Hopefully, her mental image will be filed under “Postponed and Some Day”.
Hold a sea shell to your ear and you hear the waves rhythmically slapping the shore. They hypnotically transport you to another dimension of the soul.
The mystique of caravanning Gypsies of old is a fascination of mine.
The sea shell absorbs me and I am a visitor in a Gypsy camp.
Night.
And we encircle the campfire. Music fills the air and a beautiful Gitana begins to sway into a dance. She is a whirlwind with no feet.
Her dark eyes capture mine and I am under her spell.
The night passes and my heart is full.
The sun breaks the horizon and she is gone, ever to remain in my dreams.
She is an ILLUSIVE BEAUTY.
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I think that George was a little nervous that perhaps I was disappointed with his totally new concept as he carved that piece of alabaster that was once mine.
But I do not feel that way at all. I made my peace with my new life and direction before I sold the stone. And I find it interesting what each carver brings to his stone. I think it is wonderful what he created and learned. It is a terrific sensation to see someone discover a passion and keep working at it with curiosity and enthusiasm.
How about some applause for George?!
Find carver George Schreiber on Instagram under @raggedydawg
What are some of your thoughts on destiny or creativity?
Added for Art newsletter 3 November 2021:
How did you adapt to the time change? I hope well. I am a bit saddened because it means that soon, I will feel even more behind (as if I have shorter days, hahaha) and I usually want to sleep more.
In any event, I have many projects in the works, although focusing mostly on holiday sales since life slows way down in January. I continue to add smaller art items, such as prints and even digital downloads (DIY prints) on my Etsy shop.
Have a look and send me requests if you have them.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
To see behind the scenes of art projects, such as my marble carving of "When Atlas Tires," join the Patreon page. One collector asked me to show more of the countryside and traditions of where I live in Valleriana, Tuscany.
So, once in a while, I will do that, too.
Here is an example of what you will see on my Patreon page:
Atlas WIP [work-in-progress]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrRUnhkBZz4
Join the fun here:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
Please let me know if you enjoy these newsletters, and what you think about the big change of direction
for that lovely piece of Italian alabaster that George carved.
Enjoy November!
Cheers,
Kelly
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]]>Hi, I just wanted to take a brief moment to celebrate something cool:
I recently bumped into journalist Emanuele Cutsodontis and his wife outside of my frame shop. He asked me if I had seen the article he wrote about me after our brief interview back in July or maybe June. I had not. Where I live, my local friend told me, we do not receive the Giornale di Pistoia [giornale = newspaper].
Last week I stopped by his place of business to pick up a copy and then took it to another shop to have it scanned, copied, and the original newsprint laminated.
I had a laugh when I saw the headline "Kelly is 'stregata' . . . " because in Italian, 'strega' means 'witch.' However, it was explained to me that this is a verb that means that I am "more than in love with" something. So, likely 'bewitched."
I was surprised that while the story does mention my current marble project, "When Atlas Tires" (put on hold again as I try to create a larger sculpture at the quarry now... another post in the making) and my recent drawing of Ayala and the Leopard ("Spotted"), the article is more about me.
Mainly, it shares part of my life story explaining that I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the same place as Bob Dylan (I believe Emanuele must be a huge fan because I had not thought of that as a way to describe St. Paul). The article claims that I am a well-rounded and noted artist, sculptor and painter. And he mentions that I received my degrees in mathematics and English.
And then I waited for my dog Zac to finish his life of 15 years and three months before I came to Italy in 2004 at the age of 39, backpacking around for 6 weeks with the goal of touching a Michelangelo sculpture. He related the story about how I had been asked (by Nelie Plourde, then head of the Charles Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas) to bring back a piece of the famous Italian marble for kids to see in Austin. It made my pack weigh over 40 pounds, but taught me the word "pesante" ('heavy') as Italians who helped me with my backpack to get on the train often exclaimed.
In 2006, I started my back and forth journeys from Texas to Italy to continue learning. And he described [skipping a few details, for space or perhaps a too-complicated chain of events and people] how I met a sculptor through an art exhibit and mutual friends and got myself invited to participate in a stone-carving symposium in Castelvecchio in 2013. Castelvecchio is one of the ten Medieval villages in an area called Valleriana, aka Svizzera Pesciatina (Swiss Pescia). Two years after the symposium, I moved here from Florence, Italy.
Next he asked me how I went from studying mathematics to creating art. Thus, I explained that they are both the same thing: a means to visually describe relationships between things.
The article ends with a wee bit of discussion about the Covid situation and I explain that I am luckier than most. My life as an artist is mostly being alone and that I live in a place surrounded by nature, so I probably feel a lot less isolated than most city folks. Personally, the more negative thing is that my boyfriend is a Venetian. Thus, we do not see each other so often. That makes a new-ish relationship slow going, no?
This article was published on 30 July 2021, Giornale di Pistoia, in Tuscany, Italy. In 2017, Pistoia won the bid with the Italian Ministry of Culture and became the Italian Capital of Culture for that year. Pistoia lies less than one hour northwest of Florence, in the direction of Lucca.
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]]>August! As we enter my favorite season (you know the fun happens in transitions, right?), I want to show you some new artwork!
She seems so sweet and tame, but watch those SPOTS! This empowered woman has a spotted leopard as her spirit animal. The big ghostly cat is in stalking mode, staring directly at the viewer. The woman, wearing a polka dot dress, is posing (feline stretching?), relaxed, but looking off to our left, as if lost in her dreams. She is aware, yet calm. For now.
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This romantic and sexy stone carving Tango [see above image on the right] by Vasily Fedorouk features a couple dancing so close to one another that the woman can suck on the ear of her man. Add some fun flirting art to your home environment... this sculpture is a gem and priced to sell.
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Discover more views of this wonderful sculpture Tango by Vasily:
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Behind the scenes information and visuals for patrons, as little as $2 per month, no contract, start and stop at any time!
Here is some sample content, in this case, watching from start to finish (some fast mode) the creation of a small pastel painting of Venetian boats on a canal in the Serenissima island city in Italy. [this was an advanced preview post, now available to the public:]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-ov2jNCTk
Find me on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
You will also be able to watch the progress on my marble carving Atlas or more accurately When Atlas Tires.
Patrons see more, but a few of these process videos can be seen on my YouTube channel.... choose the Playlists in the Menu Bar on my page here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim
After Playlists, select the subject that interests you, such as "Stone Carving Process." Happy art watching!
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If you love these designs by my dear friend Dragana Adamov, a Serbian designer living and working in Florence, Italy, we will be adding more to the site soon. Tigers jumping out of shoes! Dragana is enamored with shoes and these drawings show some of her creativity.
Several designs are on my site and right now, you may order them as plates for dining or for wall decor, or scarves so you can be stylin' while out carousing. Click on her name in bold above to see our collection here.
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This is a lovely shapely female portrait with torso.. a ceramic sculpture that is a delight in form. My close friend Kumiko specializes in the female form, as well as other things in the natural world, such as seeds and mushrooms.
For more information, check out her page here: https://borsheimarts.com/products/kumiko-suzuki-nara-terracotta-figure-black-woman-nude
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This has nothing to do with anything, but I find this creature fascinating to watch. Do you?
Hummingbird Moth video [see it on my YouTube channel, subscribe if you like]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYYFHLzRJpY
The Hummingbird MOTH in Italy... Photos and videos by Kelly Borsheim
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Thanks again for watching and sharing.
Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
P.S. Where to find me:
https://BorsheimArts.com
See inside the artist's studio of creations as happening: https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
Etsy - Fine Art Prints https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
Etsy - Photography https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArtsStudio
Puzzles, towels, art on products: https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
Dragana Adamov - https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Vasily Fedorouk - https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=vasily&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Charles Umlauf - https://borsheimarts.com/products/charles-umlauf-bronze-sculpture-the-kiss
Use the magnifying glass icon to search for anything you desire on my entire site. And then take advantage of this (link in the menu bar):
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]]>So many choices! Can you imagine the final look? This is a print of the sold original charcoal with pastel drawing Borgo degli Albizi in Florence, Italy.
While I like the classic offset mat (slightly more mat on the bottom of the art) with a simple black or dark frame and non-glare glass for charcoal and pastel drawings, I do not have an eye for framing. The good thing is that I know it and thus, most of the time, I trust my framers to use their taste and skills. For the framers I know and trust, I often just drop off my art and do not even look at some of the choices they think about.
Well, to this end, the same logic occurred to me that maybe people have a hard time envisioning how a work of art (drawing, painting, or sculpture) will look in an environment, home or garden.
Thus, I have been spending a lot of time these last several months buying some room mock-ups and learning how to create faux demonstration frames and finally, recently, I learned how to create shadows, at least for wall-hung objects.
Fish Lips marble (back left); Gymnast marble right, in this mock-up of a black-walled elegant bathroom, or at least a bathing room.
"A picture is worth a thousand words." How true. I do worry that the mock-ups are too clean to be seen as real living spaces, but on the other hand, I think it is obvious that the goal is to help YOU envision the art in place. And you, naturally, recognize that your home is unique and thus, you are only looking for a better idea of how the art might look installed somewhere.
Il Dono (The Gift) is a lovely neutral pastel and charcoal drawing, shown here in a bedroom mock-up. Eric, a bronze sculpture, is seen on the right.
Also, the images give a better idea of the artwork size. It is difficult to be precise on this when I am creating these images, but I try to be as accurate as possible. Prints of my 2-dimensional creations can be made in a variety of sizes, so ask away if you need something in a size that you have not seen yet on my site or in either of my shops on Etsy.
[I have two shops on Etsy, specializing in slightly different media.]
Fine art prints from drawings, pastels, and paintings:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
One advantage of prints is to create a size that fits your space!
and
Photography, mostly available as digital downloads at prices under $10 US, often under $5. Print for personal use. You receive the files immediately upon payment. Just download with the easy link provided (or see your e-mail for the link), print on material of your choice (from paper, canvas, wood, metal, pillows, mugs, tote bags, etc... as long as it is for personal use (gifts) and you are not reselling my images.
Shop here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
Here Venice, Italy, is the subject of home office fantasies. These are all images you may download and print to the size and shape you want.
Now, some more images to help you visualize my art in your home... and thank you for your interest. Share and please comment.
Thanks,
Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, artist
P.S. See behind-the-scenes creations stuff at:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
Cattails and Frog Legs is fun in a bathroom. Bronze.
Or in a boardroom with a view! Shown with Fish Lips and charcoal drawing Spotlight.
Still life paintings enhance most dining rooms.
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This new artwork, Fog Over the Ponte Canal, Venezia is a charcoal drawing, with pastels added in places for extra dark areas. You can see some typical Italian architecture in a city surprisingly empty. Street lamps offer receding circles of light piercing the fog. Some of that light is reflected in small puddles in the stone road beside the almost hidden canal.
This original drawing is shipped flat, and unframed. Prints are also available in a variety of sizes. This is not your ordinary Venetian scene and will add intrigue and romance to your home.
How the art might look in a home environment:
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COOL OFFER: The first 25 TWENTY FIVE people to buy something from this shop (only, since I have two), will receive ONE FREE 9 x 12 print of my choice (although when you make your purchase, put in the comments or message me later what other artwork interests you and I may very well accommodate your request).
Shop here for FREE print: https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
[This offer includes prints of the new charcoal drawing above.]
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Enjoy the behind-the-scenes thoughts while creating compositions? Check out this series on my YouTube channel.
YouTube video Series [with Patreon subscribers receiving more and first views]:
Ponte Canal Venezia Charcoal Drawing Finishing Touches before Adding Another Figure 2021-04-03:
https://youtu.be/zB4HthBeZAs
April 5:
Parts 1a and 1b: Video link:
In this video, I start to add a ghost figure in a traditional Venetian "Tabarro," a black cloak or cape. I wanted something to reference the history of the City of Canals, Venice, Italy (Venezia is the proper name).
Part 2: Refining that Venetian ghost:
https://youtu.be/4EfML6Yfk1M
Part 3: Edges and focal point
https://youtu.be/2eLPx4ARiKQ
Part 4: Self-Critiquing Coming to the End... Almost
"Altar of Mutual Assent"
Indiana Limestone
copyright Vasily Fedorouk
We love our rituals and traditions. This is a lovely romantic sculpture by my friend and mentor Vasily Fedorouk and features a couple reaching out to one another, arms intertwining over a bouquet of flowers. Classically beautiful!
Inquire for purchasing with me or the contact page of Vasily's site: http://www.vasilyfedorouk.com/contactvasily.htm
This fantasy drawing features the shoe hat of Nature lover with red stars over her eyes. [Hey, she is in love with the Venetian phantom with the snazzy Tabarro!] A sassy girl with curly blonde hair and freckles galore, she will put a swing into your step! Order either designer plates or handmade scarves created by my friend Dragana.
For more information and images, click here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/guest-artists/products/dragana-adamov-collection-starry-eyes-designer-scarf-plate
More charcoal drawings: https://borsheimarts.com/collections/charcoal-drawings
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Thanks again for watching and sharing. Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
Pixels - Puzzles and more https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
Dragana's plates and scarves - https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Vasily's sculptures - https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=vasily&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Umlauf https://borsheimarts.com/products/charles-umlauf-bronze-sculpture-the-kiss
Use the magnifying glass icon to search for anything you desire on my entire site. And then take advantage of this (link in the menu bar):
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Check out how she was carved and see more final images here:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/serenity-marble-portrait-of-a-woman
You may also enjoy some videos I have made on my YouTube channel of the carving and finishing processes I used here:
Thanks for watching, responding, and even sharing with friends the channel or any individual video you appreciate.
The channel (to see the listing for all public videos):
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
Some videos are left in private mode, specifically for patrons on my Patreon site:
http://patreon.com/kellyborsheim
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Dragana Adamov, designer https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last [or type in dragana to the search icon]
At the end of last year, I showed you my marble carving commission, Sisters. Now, I present to you a new hand-drawn design, also titled Sisters, by my dear friend and amazing artist Dragana Adamov. Isn't it gorgeously fascinating?
Another fun design (as we build up her collection on my site
https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last ):
Click here to see the full sculpture in a green Swedish marble, a romantic couple composition by my late, great friend and mentor.
The idea of a romantic love that lasts forever is what inspired Vasily to create the stone carving Infinity. This sculpture is carved from Swedish marble and is a lovely soft, warm light-to mid-tone green. It is exquisite in the seemingly simple lines of the figure. Vasily's work is elegant and shows a pure love.
https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-infinity-green-marble-sculpture
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Cool offer: The first 25 TWENTY FIVE people to buy something from this shop (only, since I have two), will receive ONE FREE 9 x 12 print of my choice (although when you make your purchase, put in the comments or message me later what other artwork interests you and I may very well accommodate your request). Use this shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
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Roman aqueduct in Segovia Spain, downloadable photo, you print the art:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/985228075/segovia-spain-roman-aqueduct-stone
See More of my Photography [and "favorite" the shop, click on the heart, to receive notifications of new uploads]: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArtsStudio
[Click on the shop name: BorsheimArts or BorsheimArtsStudio to see all offerings within that shop. Find it about the title of each item.]
Perhaps you prefer this bridge without the horizon line, download now:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/978808853/europe-travel-photo-roman-architecture
Etsy - Fine Art Prints https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
[Note: I have just added the second Etsy shop, so there is a transition in mediums in progress now.]
* Photo downloads... no shipping, you print.. convenient and way affordable.
OR ask me to print them for you onto a fine art paper and shipped to your door. Whatever works for you.
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Puzzles and more https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
THIS painting looks like a challenging puzzle, no? I have 25 images on that site to make any number of art-on-products, from phone cases to towels and tote bags to puzzles to prints on metal or wood. You may even select one of many styles of frames and see it in a room to make sure it all comes together with the look you want. Then printed, framed, and shipped to your door.
If you have a favorite artwork or photograph of mine that you do not see on this site, please write to me and I will upload the image of your desires. Then order whatever form you like. Sweet, huh?
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Charles Umlauf, sculptor https://borsheimarts.com/products/charles-umlauf-bronze-sculpture-the-kiss
This smaller bronze of the same composition that is a favorite feature in the Charles Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas, is available to a discerning collector. Visit the page linked above for more information. It is a wonderful and romantic sculpture.
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See this short clip of a small mural job I completed about a month ago, 6 and 1/2 windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7C2FLd4O_0
What happens when you paint in the evening light and see your work in the sunny morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZfn83WF8w
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/murals/products/zsold-mural-window-trim-decor
Use the magnifying glass icon to search for anything you desire on my entire site. And then take advantage of this (link in the menu bar):
Gift Certificate - Instant Savings around 10% https://borsheimarts.com/products/gift-certificate-for-art-prints-or-art-on-products
Use the Gift Certificate for birthdays, anniversary gifts, or any other reason you want to share the love. GIVE ART!
Stay cool!
Peace and thanks,
Kelly
P.S. This photo was taken of me at a foundry in central Texas while I cleaned up the newly cast bronze of Against the Dying of the Light for a client. Cast after ordering.
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
https://BorsheimArts.com
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com
See new art and images and videos of art in the process. Thank you for supporting and getting updates at:
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Browse these support sites for ideas:
BorsheimArts on towels, puzzles, tote bags and so much more: https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
YouTube:
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Most people are still sprucing up their homes and keeping a low profile while we all try to navigate through Covid-infested waters. And I usually have some sort of sale to mark my art anniversary. Here, I have chosen some of my favorite creations, and offer a great low price ($200 US or less!) of large reproductions to fill your home with beauty and interest. Have a look at the offer, which ends on 15 Feb 2021:
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com/2021/01/20th-art-anniversary-sale-framed-art.html
Here are some new things that will inspire you:
Etsy - Photography https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
Etsy - Fine Art Prints https://www.etsy.com/shop/borsheimarts
[Note: I have just added the second Etsy shop, so there is a transition in mediums in progress now.]
Puzzles and more https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
Dragana Adamov, designer https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Vasily Fedorouk, sculptor https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=vasily&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Charles Umlauf, sculptor https://borsheimarts.com/products/charles-umlauf-bronze-sculpture-the-kiss
Use the magnifying glass icon to search for anything you desire on my entire site. And then take advantage of this (link in the menu bar):
Gift Certificate - Instant Savings around 10% https://borsheimarts.com/products/gift-certificate-for-art-prints-or-art-on-products
Use the Gift Certificate for Valentine's Day! GIVE ART!
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/oil-paintings
Back to Back https://borsheimarts.com/collections/stone-sculpture/products/back-to-back-torsos-in-marble-female-and-male
Bronze Mirror of Men https://borsheimarts.com/collections/bronze-statue/products/oh-boy-bronze-mirror-of-nude-men
Fiesole Still Life https://borsheimarts.com/collections/pastels/products/fiesole-still-life-painting-tuscan-hearth-art
Model with the art he posed for: Il Dono (The Gift): https://borsheimarts.com/collections/pastels/products/the-gift-man-genie-holding-out-hands-to-give-smoke-capoeira-movement-drawing
First show in Austin, Texas: https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=nude&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Quattro Show with Nightwatch: https://borsheimarts.com/collections/charcoal-drawings/products/nightwatch-seated-nude-woman-looks-to-her-left-thinking-woman-charcoal-drawing
Sleeping Angel
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/pastels/products/sleeping-angel-pastel-figure-painting-of-man
31-year-young artist Kelly Borsheim with Sculpture Teacher Jon Formo at the Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory in Austin Texas, 1995
Stay cool!
Peace and thanks,
Kelly
P.S. The photo in the table of contents for this newsletter/blog was taken in September 2014 in Croatia. I accepted an invitation by an artist I met at a symposium in Bulgaria months before to visit his small town in Croatia. Not understanding that he would enter me into an art competition. I created this rather abstract composition of the electric or phone lines up high on the stone walls in the village of Grisignano in Istria, Croatia. [I did not win a prize, but had an amazing weekend in Istria that enabled me to find a place to live in Umag for three months from mid-December 2014 to mid-March 2015.]
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
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https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com
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Stone planter - three portraits
Museo Bardini - Florence, Italy
Dear Art Lover,
Well, this transition took me a while. How are you? I have now been back in Italy for over a month and am working to create new art for another solo exhibit here in Florence in June. I enclose here a small thumbnail image of the pastel painting Fiesole Still Life, inspired by one of my friend's home in the hills above Florence. Click on the title to see more.
The exhibit "Annigoni's Legacy: Artworks of the Angel Academy of Art" runs 13-30 May [2010], with a private reception on the 12th.
The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is an organization that promotes representational art. Each year they hold a worldwide competition called the Salon. This year, two of my original compositions (Hindsight and Enough) were selected as finalists in the Drawing Category.
One of the other perks is that some of the museums stayed open late and were free to enter. So, I want to share with you some of the jewels inside the Museo Stefano Bardini.
Stefano Bardini was an avid art collector and is said to have had a natural ability to successfully display together works from different time periods. The first thing that one must notice is that the walls are a soft blue, very unlike the typically warm Tuscan yellows. But the blues perfectly enhance the creamy colors in the stone sculptures.
Perhaps I should admit one of my weaknesses: I rarely remember the names of the artists or the titles of the works. I realize that is perhaps unhealthy for a professional artist. However, especially in a museum, I find myself overwhelmed with what I AM looking for, that the labels often seem unimportant. Even as a child I was interested in the idea more than the source, unless that source was essential to that idea.
So, if you want to know more about the artwork that I am showing you, please visit the Museo Stefano Bardini. They also have more clear images on their site than the ones that I have shot here.
I just love the two animals in the upper right corner of the image on the right. My favorite are the ears!
I first became interested in bas-relief sculpture after spending two days working with it in a sculpture workshop with Eugene Daub many years ago. I learned then its potential and have since stopped calling it "Puffy Painting." However, it has been Italy where I began to appreciate the full range of what one can do in relief. Sculptors know that we must carve for the light and we only can assume, for the most part, that that light will come from above.
Look at the detail shot of the pulpit - can you see how the artist maximized the use of undercuts to create the shadows necessary to distinguish the form. If you really look at this stone carving in relief, you will notice just how many different tones are there, based soley on the way the stone was carved or how deep or angled an undercut (narrow and angled creating a darker shadow). Brilliant! And lovely.
Oh, the expressiveness. Oh, the creativity. Oh, the technique. Without electricity, these forms were cut from stone. Do you know how difficult this really is?
Such magnificient and imaginative creatures. These carvings seem a bit crudely created to me and yet, they have their own charm.
Really, I was so enchanted not only by the blue, but the way in which busy carvings were put together with a harmony of line and simplicity. Maybe from the Della Robbia studio, famous for the blue backgrounds on white ceramic bas-relief sculptures.
These stairs remind me of Michelangelo's Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, also here in Firenze.
The ceilings are spectacular! What is amazing is that some of the
designs and executions may not appear complicated, but put together
over a large area, and ... wow, what an effect!
"The drawings in Bardini's collection were mainly ascribed to Giovan Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) and his son Lorenzo (1736-1776)."
(I photographed the sign . . . )
"These bronze statuettes are ascribed to Severo da Ravenna's workshop. They are really expressive and represent sea monsters, pagan gods, winged dragons, lamps, acrobats and little naked angels, licentious satyrs, candle holders and other profane subjects."
[sic, on the grammar]
"There is another lamp representing a licentious subject, so as to instigate laughter when it was lit. These kinds of objects were requested above all by humanists, often fond of studying nature. That's why the bases were frequently cast on real animal legs, such as the cock's foot on this lamp."
I found this crucified figure intriguing because his body did not fit the shape of a cross. Perhaps I am crude to say that the abstract shape appeals to me as having a graceful flow to it.
From the museum: "Over them [two figures not shown here] is hung a Crucified Thief, of which the cross has been lost. In the 1918 New York auction catalogue, Bardini presented the bronze as a work of Zaccaria da Volterra, based on Michelangelo's design."
I do not understand how they can place this figure on a cross -- would not both feet have been secured? The lower arm was dangling from a rope on the arm of the cross? The figure's back is as well formed as the front. I am certainly no expert, but many sculptors only shape the parts that will be seen. On the other hand, perhaps a slender cross would allow spaces in which the
body could be viewed. In that case, a sculpture in the round would be much easier to create and better for a thorough viewing.
Now, here is a happy fellow in this center image! And displayed among other bronze reliefs of madonnas and religious figures (not shown).[I do apologize for the refection of my camera in this shot!]
It is sad to see the damage done to this wooden vessel. But what a glory piece she is!
While I am not personally much interested in weaponry, the part of me that loves science fiction and fantasy art was intrigued by these spear shapes. Perhaps the holes were made to make the metal lighter, but they are still beautifully crafted.
Gotta love this: Naked guy angel on a gun? Just look at the size of those thighs! Mamma mia!
Stone, metal, wood: Sculpture is da bomb!
Oh, I wish that I had gotten a better image of this lion in restoration - this area was behind a locked glass door.
I know a tour guide for Florence who recently posted on Facebook that although the Florentines used the lion as their symbol before they adopted the current fleur-di-lis (different from France's), the artists had never even seen a lion, other than looking at ancient artworks. However, this lion is so much more elegant in form that it makes me wonder . . . For example, I love that graceful triangular taper from the rib cage to the hips.
Giambologna's frightful creature Diavolino (little devil) gives me a theory about where Dr. Seuss came up with "The Grinch that Stole Christmas".
I must say that I enjoyed this idea of wallpaper (in truth a fresco) turning out to be a curtain.
Maybe these works are not famous (the sculpture on the right is a fountainhead), but I hope you recognize the artistry in them.
And I hope that I have left you wanting more.
The Fisherboy, bronze sculpture by Gemito in Bargello Museum
Part Two of Day with the Diva Judy Witts Francini and the Conti Family (food market tour)
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Pace (peace),
Kelly Borsheim
5 May 2010
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Are you up to meet a dear artist friend of mine from Serbia? We met as we became flatmates in Florence, Italy, in 2008. Dragana Adamov and I became fast friends and I have even been twice to Serbia to spend time with her family. I also own one of her paintings.
Dragana is a stupendous and creative artist and I have just started to post some of her creations on my site, as part of my GUEST ARTIST section (on the menu bar under Sculpture).
Artists Kelly and Dragana in Florence, Italy
Here, she presents her new compositions created during lockdown for Covid. Her fantasy drawings are now available on designer plates, and foulard scarves. These items are so new, she has not had time to photograph well everything, but here is your SNEAK PEEK!
You may see all the uploaded designs by using the SEARCH feature on my site, Just type in Dragana and feast your eyes! Click on "Sculpture" in the menu bar, then scroll to "Guest Artist" or for now, click here:
https://borsheimarts.com/search?q=dragana&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
Such a romantic piece, with its high texture, black stone base, and charming pose of an amorous couple. Detail image here:
See more images and information here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/bronze-statue/products/charles-umlauf-bronze-sculpture-the-kiss
Charles Umlauf (July 17, 1911 – November 19, 1994) was an American sculptor and beloved teacher. His most famous student and muse was the actress Farrah Fawcett. He also worked in Pietrasanta, Italy, where I noticed a large bozzetto (plaster model) of one of his Eve with apple sculptures.
The above small bronze Kiss sculpture was purchased directly from the Umlauf family in 2011. And now, we offer it to some lucky and smart collector. The sculpture weighs 37 pounds and if not picked up in Austin, Texas, USA, it will be well-crated and shipped worldwide once full payment is received.
This wonderful composition Love My Planet features a couple seated and intertwined. Both are reaching to lift up a large crystal ball, that represents the Earth.
Please note the detail shot included on its page show the chisel marks left by the artist on the stone. The texture of the figures contrasts beautifully with the smoothness of the transparent glass ball above them.
It is this unpolished state of the figures, however, that leads the artist's wife Dilbara to wonder if her husband considered the work finished or not. Thus, she is offering this stone and glass ball figurative sculpture at an unheard-of low price.
Take advantage and live with a piece of Vasily's wonderful and meaningful sculptures. The art will ship from the Chicago, USA, area. Order online here:
Love my Planet
stone and glass crystal ball
12 x 5.5 x 4.5 inches
Mixed media sculpture
by Vasily Fedorouk (d. 2009)
$2000 US
Gift Certificate for Art, Prints, Original Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings or Art on Products
Buy for yourself or someone else. Here you will receive a 10% savings and the recipient gets to choose the art of his or her choice! Redeem directly with the artist, Kelly Borsheim.
Great stocking-stuffer idea, too! The lower amounts can cover such things as Borsheim Art Works on note cards, digital downloads of photographs or fine art drawings, art on products, such as puzzles or prints on metal or even SHOWER curtains! Or apply any balance towards and original work of art.
Browse these support sites for ideas [Pixels/FineArtAmerica and Etsy]:
https://pixels.com/profiles/1-kelly-borsheim
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
https://borsheimarts.com/products/gift-certificate-for-art-prints-or-art-on-products
Want to give an art gift but unsure of how it will be received? Allow your loved one to choose the artwork herself!
I will hand decorate a gift card in any amount you wish. I will mail you the real art gift card, or send it to you digitally, in case the shipping arrives too late. A gift card allows the receiver to choose what pleases, leaving your doubts behind.
And you may order as late as the LAST MINUTE! How convenient.
Save 10% on art with this gift certificate, even if giving to yourself. Choose your savings:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/gift-certificate-for-art-prints-or-art-on-products
(Gift certificates for Dragana's Designs are on each of her product pages. Check them out using my site's SEARCH function!)
I really wanted to create a site that is USER-FRIENDLY, as well as attractive on laptops and on smart phones. And yet, I still wanted the flexibility to change things, especially correct typos and grammar mistakes. [I know, I should not proof my own work!]
To that end, I am thrilled now to have a search function and am working hard to make sure that I fill out all descriptive phrases I can think of that you might look for so that you may FIND art that moves you.
Other perks of this new site: Choose your currency: I offer four: US dollars, Canadian dollars, the Euro, and the Pound. Also you will see below where you choose your preferred currency that I am now able to accept many different forms of payment. So convenient!
Here are some images I created to show you more about the search feature and other perks. The first is on your phone, the second is for your laptop viewing.
Happy surfing!
Thank you so much to my patrons on Patreon! I just finished taking a course on color with Casey Klahn in Seattle, an artist I have admired for over ten years. In the online class, we used pastels, but we worked more with understanding color, terminology, and trying to find our natural taste or voice in color. It was a Beta class to help Casey clarify some of his latest color teaching techniques and I jumped at the opportunity using some of the funds from my charming patrons.
So, THANK YOU Patrons: Sheila, Shirley, Travis, Richard, Jeanne, Lloyd, and Igor!
and NEW PATRON: Judi
Get EXTRA behind-the-scenes images and stories (not usually found on any other social media posts) ad my patron at any level here:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
NOW, an announcement: All Patreon patrons at the $13 support level and up, or anyone who has bought any of my artworks for $1500 or more in this difficult year of 2020 will be receiving a free gift from me to your doorstep.
The first wave of these are already on their way, if not there. Perhaps you would like to use the gift as a gift for someone else or as an activity to share during the holidays. Offer expires when 2020 does.
This could be a great time to upgrade your level of participation in this art journey https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim or browse through some of
my art online at https://BorsheimArts.com
Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate it. I feel pretty grateful to the string of winter holidays we have to look forward to, no matter how very different this year certainly is worldwide. My personal favorite is the solstice because I am often looking towards the heavens in contemplation and wonder.
Peace and thanks,
Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
https://BorsheimArts.com
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com
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Here is a video you may find of interest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCsTOkIaD0&t=7s
This sculpture arrived safely to Austin, Texas and her new owners absolutely love her... or hers? Watch the video to see how I created safe and specific packaging.
Other helpful art-related videos are on my channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim
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Thank you so much to my patrons on Patreon! I just finished taking a course on color with Casey Klahn in Seattle, an artist I have admired for over ten years. In the online class, we used pastels, but we worked more with understanding color, terminology, and trying to find our natural taste or voice in color. It was a Beta class to help Casey clarify some of his latest color teaching techniques and I jumped at the opportunity using some of the funds from my charming patrons.
So, THANK YOU Patrons: Sheila, Shirley, Travis, Richard, Jeanne, Lloyd, and Igor!
Get EXTRA behind-the-scenes images and stories (not usually found on any other social media posts) ad my patron at any level here:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
NOW, an announcement: All Patreon patrons at the $13 support level and up, or anyone who has bought any of my artworks for $1500 or more in this difficult year of 2020 will be receiving a free gift from me to your doorstep.
The first wave of these will be mailed out around 1 December, in case you would like to use the gift as a gift for someone else or as an activity to share during the holidays. Offer expires when 2020 does.
This could be a great time to upgrade your level of participation in this art journey https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim or browse through some of
my art online at https://BorsheimArts.com
or even on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorsheimArts
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This next artwork I would like to share with you is another self-portrait depicting the time in my life when I was moving back and forth from central Texas to Italy. The situation reminded me of the Greek myth of Persephone, the story of why we have the seasons. Michelangelo was my narcissus flower and this architectural design he created is a subtle part of this composition.
I show you this drawing first because the painting contains a nude and perhaps only those interested should click on the link and read more about how this composition came to be.
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/oil-paintings/products/persephone
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Want to give an art gift but unsure of how it will be received? Allow your loved one to choose the artwork herself!
I will hand decorate a gift card in any amount you wish. I will mail you the real art gift card, or send it to you digitally, in case the shipping arrives too late. A gift card allows the receiver to choose what pleases, leaving your doubts behind.
And you may order as late as the LAST MINUTE! How convenient.
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A couple navigates together the topsy-turvy world with the ever-present apple. This ceramic sculpture by my friend and mentor Vasily is a delightful expression of love and challenges that couples face. It is a small table top piece [perhaps about 12 inches tall?] and sells for $2200.
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/ceramic-sculpture/products/vasily-fedorouk-unison-ceramic-sculpture
Please visit the site and contact either Dilbara, Vasily's wife, or me, if you are interested in collecting any of his available works.
http://VasilyFedorouk.com
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My show "Stories" was supposed to be from 24 October through to Thursday, 12 November at an art gallery in Pescia in Tuscany, Italy. However, on Monday evening the 9th of Nov, we got word that on Wednesday, all of Tuscany region would be deemed an Orange Zone and that meant that we are all confined to our Comune [town seat]. Luckily, I live in the hills where Pescia is our Comune.
The provincia di Pistoia's newspaper and this one covered the event in Tuscany:
I spent Tuesday driving to Firenze to help a friend load up my little car with as many of her sculptures, tools, and personal things she wanted to leave in Italy to move to storage in my home. She is losing her flat in Italy due to Covid (no work to pay rent and the landlord wants to remake her flat to gain more money once travel is opened up again).
On Wednesday, I met an interested party at the gallery and gallerist Stefano invited me to keep the exhibit up for another week since he canceled the artist scheduled to open that Saturday. GREAT, despite only 2 people being allowed in the space at any given time.
However, Friday, we got word that come Sunday, all of Tuscany would be in a RED ZONE. That meant a more severe lockdown, as we did in the spring. The Bottega d'Arte Salvadori would only be open by appointment and people were required to stay home, except for emergencies and necessary work.
I decided to go to the gallery the next day during normal business hours and remove all of my art before lockdown the day after. They do a great business there and I love how honest and good that family is, but it just seemed the better thing to do so my hands were not tied.
However, during opening night, I made two short videos to give a virtual tour of the exhibit. See my recent solo show during Covid (in English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC8Mgf7xkU8&t=2s
The same exhibit, but this video is in my broken Italian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi72kjTH1mo
Peace and thanks [And Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it. I cannot imagine life without gratitude],
Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
https://BorsheimArts.com
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com
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Here in Tuscany, my solo show from May was postponed and it will now open NEXT Weekend on the 24th! The title is "Stories" and the exhibit debuts in the center of Tuscany, Italy, a small town called Pescia, the City of Flowers.
I asked the gallerist Stefano Salvadori why he did not keep the title in Italian. He said, "The words are similar enough ('Storie' in Italian) that there will not be any confusion on the meaning, yet English is cool." haha... so perhaps it is true that we are often enchanted by the exoticism of others.
For the art opening on Saturday, 24 October, 5 p.m., we will have new and more strict controls in place due to the increasing fear of the spread of this too-long-lasting virus. There will be no food or drink (so no removing of masks), and there is a limit of five people inside the gallery at any one time, reservations required (for the opening only). Luckily, the gallery is arranged in a U-shape, with glass all-round. Even when the gallery is closed, one may see the art inside with relative ease.
The show continues through November 12, 2020. By the next newsletter, I will share with you the entire exhibit online.
Here is a sneak peak at some of the story-telling artworks that will be on exhibit in Pescia, Italy, soon.
A detail from The Curiosity of Pandora:
This next image is an architectural drawing by THE Michelangelo for the Porta al Prato (the door to Prato, a city north of Florence, Italy). It has never been realized. However, it made it into one of my paintings. In my next newsletter, I will show you how.
Now, two LOVELY ladies actually wrote to me last April or May to commission a contemporary portrait of them in the famous Carrara marble. I felt fortunate that I had a block of marble at home with me during the quarantine and thus, I was able to start right away. And here she is in all of her complete glory.
The title is Sisters, and once I finish photographing her and building her (or their?) shipping box, she will go meet her happy art collectors in Texas.
Some of the stone carving process videos are public and available on my channel on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
Extra behind-the-scenes images and stories (69 posts thus far, how about that?) are enjoyed by my patrons at any level here:
https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
including this post, which includes the first video I have published about how to photograph sculpture:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/photographing-42641965
I have wanted to paint another mural for some time now. This one is small but I suspect it shall be useful to me for a long time. Originally, I wanted to use it as a dark backdrop for two white marble sculptures by my friend Vasily Fedorouk that are part of my personal art collection. But as I got closer to finishing the Sisters marble carving above, I began to think I needed a dark background sooner than later. While I carved stone during the daylight hours, most of this mural was painted in a few hours over several evenings after dinner.
If you would like to see more of the mural (or are curious about what my bedroom looks like), click here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/murals/products/zsold-mural-clouds-in-hills
And on YouTube, I have also posted a video about the composition and design decisions I made for this new multi-purpose mural. Check it out (free) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltwq5yDAGM0&t=25s
Finishing out the series of Ms in the subject line of this e-mail is the MAN ~ Vasily Fedorouk. You may note how much I love his work because I have a small collection of it. But I would be thrilled to spread the word and allow you to enhance your life with his lovely compositions.
Below you will see two artworks featured. The first is his self-portrait in ceramic. His wife told me that he titled the art simply, Sculptor. I like the star behind the man's head in this snapshot that I took while visiting the Fedorouk family outside of their home in Chicago.
The second is a wonderful deep green marble carving that he started in my former home in Texas during a stone carving workshop that we taught together. I find this Maternity II composition charming in the way that the baby wiggles on his mother's lap, as she looks up to the heavens. Looking upwards is a common pose that Vasily used, especially when feeling hopeful.
And I have created a Featured Collection of this guest artist's work on my own site. Check it out here:
https://borsheimarts.com/collections/vasily-fedorouk-ukrainian-american-artist-sculptor-painter
I will add more after my art exhibition opens soon. In the meantime, you may see a lot more of Vasily's art (including paintings) at his site:
Sculptor
12 x 12 x 12 inches
Ceramic Self-Portrait
by Vasily Fedorouk
$1600 US
Maternity II
13.5 x 5 x 6.5 inches
Green Marble
copyright 2006 Vasily Fedorouk
$6,200 US
Let me know if I may help you put some art joy into your life, and have fun browsing through my Etsy shop and my own new site. Links are below.
Peace and thanks,
Kelly
~ Kelly Borsheim, sculptor, painter, writer
https://BorsheimArts.com
https://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com
Thank you for supporting and getting updates at: https://www.patreon.com/KellyBorsheim
https://www.youtube.com/user/kellyborsheim/videos
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