Good morning, lovely ladies!
Happy Thursday to you! Today it’s raining like mad here in NJ. It’s hot and humid and feeling very much NOT like October 16th should feel! Blergh. I am having another interesting hair day. My hair is HUGE today. Massive. It has made a giant, uncontrollable frizzball all around my head. However, I will pretend that it is lovely and angelic – a shining aura of curls - and hope that nobody thinks I look like a crazy person…but they probably do.
Today is also Boss’s Day. So I am meant to celebrate my boss, even though most of the time he makes me a little bit nuts-o. So I brought him a blue star shaped mylar balloon and tied it to his chair. He was extremely happy about it, and this amuses me. But really, who doesn’t get happy when someone gives them a balloon? J
Today’s artist is Wolf Kahn. He was born in Germany in 1927 and is still alive today, but he lives in the United States now. I think he’s technically considered a “modern abstract” painter, but most of his work that I’ve seen are landscapes, so I’m not sure it’s really all that abstract to me! What I like about Wolf (other than that his name is Wolf, which is too awesome for words), is how he uses colors. He uses a lot of really vivid, fabulously happy colors – a lot of times colors that you wouldn’t really see in a landscape in real life, like the lilac colored trees in the first one or the teal grass in the second..but close enough to something you MIGHT see, if the light was just right, that it still looks right) , but he always puts some muddy, neutral-y colored things in there, and that makes the bright happy things look so much MORE bright and happy. That’s something I have trouble doing when I paint – I want EVERYTHING to be bright, happy colors, and it doesn’t work as well as this!
And I love, love, love the clouds reflected in the water on the last one. They’re perfect. I want to touch that painting, to feel if it has a nubby texture like it looks like it does.
So that’s a little bit about Wolf Kahn and his awesome paintings.
I hope you have a wonderful day today.
Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
xoxoxoxo
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