Groton Reservoir - and Let's See Your Tree!

Groton Reservoir

Oil on canvas, 30x40

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One of the great things about living in Ledyard, CT, was being near the Groton Reservoir. I painted it often, and in all seasons. Some of my very favorite paintings from the years we lived in Ledyard are of the reservoir - and this is one of them. 

It is one of the first large paintings I did with a palette knife, and while it had some of the feeling I was hoping to communicate, it was lacking something - a little life, a little breadth, a little color? So I went back in and worked on it again, and this time, whatever was missing is there.

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May We See Your Tree?  

In Saturday's entry, I posted a photo of our Christmas tree.  My friend Bonnie Brankey, a wonderful artist,  sent me this photo of her tree. Could we share our trees, or our Hanukkah bushes, or our holiday-decorated pink flamingos - or whatever you decorate? 

Please send a jpg to me at carrieBjacobson@gmail.com, and I'll post them here on the blog on Christmas Day. 

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Dogs of the Day

 Gotta love 'em! Want your pet to be dog of the day? Send a jpg to me at carrieBjacobson@gmail.com

December Sale!

Spring in Bucksnort, Tennessee

Oil on canvas, 9x12

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Hi, everyone! Hope you had excellent Thanksgiving Days with your families, your friends, your neighbors, or just by yourself if that's how you choose to celebrate. After a great pre-Thanksgiving holiday get-together with my family in Connecticut, I came home, and Peter and I had a lovely, quiet day taking it easy and being grateful for so very much. 

In clearing out my studio over the weekend, I found these wonderful paintings in a box, under another box. They are older paintings, and some don't have the heavy surface that I generally create now - but they are excellent paintings, ones that I love, and in sizes that I don't use much any more. Most are not framed; I included the frame in the ones that are framed. I am offering them to you all here for pretty low prices. 

If you buy any of these paintings before Friday, I will pay the shipping!  

The "View Cart" button is at the bottom of the page. 

Afternoon in Clinton, Arkansas

Oil on canvas, 11x14

Sold

Arizona Desert

Oil on canvas, 12x12

Fog on the Reservoir

Oil on canvas, 6x12, framed

Shady Garden

Sold!

Sunny Garden
Sold!

Winter Storm

Oil on board, 12x12

Storm Lifting

Oil on masonite, 6x6

Sold

Time to Shovel

Oil on board, 6x12

Sold

Spring's Thin Bones

Sold

Winter Flamingos

Oil on canvas, 6x12, framed

sold

Heavy Coat

Oil on board, 6x12,

Sold

Please click here to email me for prices of any paintings not marked "sold"

Some of the Tubac Paintings Are Hanging Now in Groton CT

Some of my western landscapes

Carden Holland and I hung our show "There and Back" at the Groton Public Library on Friday and it looks great! 

All of the 10x10s I've made so far from the Tubac trip are hanging, as are three of the large pieces. 

Carden has a whole bunch of beautiful pieces, some in oils, some using a multimedia technique she's developed over the years. 

The show will be up through April 26, though Carden is going to pick up her work earlier. 

On Saturday, I'll be at the library pretty much all day, so please stop in! 

Some of Carden's work

For all of you who don't know Carden, she taught art for 23 years in the school system in Ledyard, CT. She now lives in central Pennsylvania, where she makes art and rides her horse Lauren. 

Carden says she makes art because it's what she has always done. 

"Drawings always enhanced my schoolwork, mural work beckoned me, and once I was in junior and senior high school, I was in art classes and working on the school magazine and yearbook. No wonder I went to art school, where I majored in painting." 

"I found my voice as an art teacher and remained one for 33 years," she says. During that time, she painted, made ceramic sculpture, participated in many juried shows, and had a few solo shows, as well. 

"Now in retirement," Holland says, "I am still inspired by my new surroundings and I am  still making art in a variety of media." 

Her work in our show is really wonderful. There are a few oil paintings, and the rest are paintings made with a fantastic process that uses gouache and ink. She makes the pieces on paper, then washes them in a tub and recolors them. They are fascinating and alluring pieces! 

The Groton Public Library, 52 Newtown Road, Groton, is open seven days a week, though the hours vary. For info, check the site at http://www.grotonpl.org/

Gorton's Pond, by Carden Holland

Fort Monroe, AL, by Carrie Jacobson

New London Fishermen, by Carden Holland

Our shared wall

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p.s. Though I don't know where my next painting trip will take me,

 I already have my first sponsor!