MY NEXT SHOWING! September McGee

MY NEXT SHOWING IS:
 THE INDIAN WELLS ARTS FESTIVAL

APRIL 6, 7 and 8, 2012

10 am to 5:30 pm

Indian Wells Tennis Garden
78-200 Miles Ave, Indian Wells,CA 

THIS VENUE IS GOING TO BE FUN FUN FUN!


WINE TASTING - A GOURMET MARKET PLACE
AND CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES!

I'M IN BOOTH #N17

COME SEE ME AT THIS SHOW!

LET ME KNOW YOU ARE COMING.   SPECIAL SURPRISE AWAITS!

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Monday blessings,


September McGee


LIVE  -  LAUGH  - LOVE

New Creations on a Wonderful Wednesday by September McGee

"Summer Rain"

24" x 18" oil on linen

"Summer Rain" is a brand new creation that took on its own specialness when a customer of mine decided she wanted a woman on the beach done in greens in my "rainy day" technique.

Her name is Jacqui and I would meet her, albeit too briefly, most summers in my booth.  Last year, however, Jacqui, with her huge giving heart, was taking care of a friend on hospice in North Carolina.  She shared her story with me about her friend Ms. Sherry and what a kind and giving person she was.  I decided I would take pictures of my walks by the ocean and sunsets and send them to Ms. Sherry to give her heart some beautiful images and some love from the west coast.  She wasn't suppose to last very long, but she surprised everyone and she made it to see her new grand child,  Christmas and more!  With all the sunsets and gorgeous Laguna seascapes I sent, "Summer Rain" was the last image Ms. Sherry saw and she loved it. A painting cannot leave my studio until I am absolutely certain it is ready to go.  I just finally shipped it up to Jacqui and it arrived on Valentine's Day - the perfect day for a woman with a huge loving heart!

....and she LOVED it!

Every painting has a story...a beginning... with the idea....a middle... with the photo session and the creation itself...and an ending...the home where it was meant to be!  "Summer Rain" was in the works for almost a year.  Jacqui blessed me by coming to my home/studio around my birthday and we shared Veuve Cliquot (there is no other) and knoshed, laughed and I turned her onto Brie with chopped

red onions... let's not leave off the chocolate covered strawberries and other scrumptious sweets.

It was most endearing to spend quality time with this amazing woman. She brought along a friend AND her new sweetheart, who happens to be her old sweetheart! Yes, they found each other once again and act like sixteen year olds!!!  Jacqui has found love. Each night as I went to work on "Summer Rain" I asked this painting what love can I give you?  Then and only then would I paint.  My desire was for Jacqui to love what I created for her. The gods were kind to me as I painted with love I learned to love my art once again... all because of the love of one humble, energetic, caring woman.  Did I mention she use to be a nurse.

I believe this painting will always remind us of the love we all shared - Ms. Sherry, Jacqui, Mitch and myself and how wonderful it is that art can convey the most powerful and wondrous feeling in the world - LOVE from its creation and for eternity.  Thank you Jacqui, for sharing your kindness and unending giving of yourself to others and for loving my work!  I still take pictures of the sunsets and so thanks to Jacqui and Ms. Sherry look for several exciting sunset paintings due out this summer!

I wish you all love today and all days!

Blessings,

September McGee

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CREATE YOUR OWN ART! FLOWERS, TREES, SEA CREATURES AND MORE! DON'T MISS THIS FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY IN LAGUNA BEACH, CA!!!

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO PAINT?

HERE ARE SOME AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES

TO CREATE WITH

AWARD WINNING ARTIST:

SEPTEMBER McGEE

BRAND NEW WORKSHOP!

Paint aloe flowers from the aloe plant!

Using oil pastels on 80lb paper we will be creating this gorgeous red flower from the aloe plant with special layering and unique texturing techniques. Yes, you will go home with your very own creation!

LAGUNA BEACH BOTANICALS

Art workshop:  Thursday & Saturday February 23 & 25th

9:30 am - 11 am.

Crescent Bay point Park, 223 Crescent Bay Dr. Laguna Beach, CA

Instructor:  September McGee

Horticulturist Ruben Flores will be educating us on this amazing red aloe flower and more! We will all be creating our own aloe flower to take home and frame!  Pick the day of your choice or come twice!

Adults 16 and up!  ONLY $25 per session

(includes all materials) 

REGISTER NOW!  LIMITED TO 16

BRAND NEW WORKSHOP!!

Paint this beautiful Australian Paper Bark Tree!  

Right in Heisler Park, you've seen this amazing tree, well come and paint it.  We will be using a pencil sketch and black gel pen and a sepia watercolor wash with touches of yellow

and green.  This is so much FUN!

LAGUNA BEACH BOTANICALS

Art Workshop:  Thursday & Saturday March 22nd and 23rd

9:30 am - 11:00 am

at Heisler Park, 376 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach

Instructor:  September McGee

Adults 16 and up!   ONLY $25 per session

(includes all materials) 

REGISTER NOW!  LIMITED TO 16

Horticulturist Ruben Flores will be discussing this wonderful tree.  He will even tell us how old it is and how it got so twisted and why its trunk has all these amazing sepia tones in the bark.  Then we will sit on the grass or bench or bring your own beach chair and towel and we will be sketching and creating your own masterpiece to take home and frame.  Choose one day or come to both!

Come and get a tour of our Marine Mammal Center and then we adjourn to the art room where we will create the amazing Garibaldi fish using oil pastels and special layering and unique texturing techniques!

This workshop is offered monthly by LOCA!

ART and SEA LIONS

Saturday March 20th

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Pacific Marine Mammal Center

20612 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA

Instructor:  September McGee

Adults $20.  Ages 6-18 $15 (accompanied by an adult)

All materials included.  

REGISTER NOW! LIMITED TO 15.

One of the wonderful docents from the Mammal Center will guide us through the facilities and discuss the history of the Mammal Center as we witness first hand the actual rescued sea lions  in residence as they greet you with their wondrous eyes and flap their fins with thanks. You will have the opportunity to find out how to name one and be there when they are returned to the ocean!  A must do day for anyone who loves the ocean and all its inhabitants. A family treat not to be missed!

We then go to the art room where we will be painting the Garibaldi fish in all its brilliance in oil pastels. You get to take home a fish without even using a hook!  

And, this one is "frame able".

WATERCOLORS ON THE BEACH

Here is an art class right on the Beach!!!!

Learn all about all the incredible tide pool creatures with a tour with our docent then adjourn to the beach and be served an amazing snack from the Montage (worth the price of admission)!

Next we create watercolors of the tide pool creatures beginning with the astonishing starfish (sea star) that we just saw in the tide pools. For beginners to advanced this is the "funnest" art workshop offered in Laguna Beach. Great for families, artists, want to be artists - great for anyone and everyone who loves the beach!  In this workshop we not only promote tide pool preservation we teach you how to preserve your own special creation in your own watercolor journal that you get to take home along with all the art supplies!  

This is the best deal ever! 

                             SUNDAYS  10 am - 11:30 am

OFFERED:  MARCH 18  -  APRIL 1ST AND  -  MAY 13TH

AT:  Treasure Island Beach

 Adults $35.  Ages 5-18 $20 (accompanied by an adult)

REGISTER NOW!  LIMITED TO 15!

ARTISTS:  SEPTEMBER McGEE, SHERRY BULLOCK AND SANDRA WEIR

THESE ARE THE CLASSES I WILL BE TEACHING WITH LOCA THIS YEAR!

THERE ARE MANY MORE AMAZING CLASSES TOO. ASK WHEN YOU CALL 

OUR LOCA OFFICE!

HERE'S WHAT TO DO:

REGISTER AND JUST DO IT:

CALL LOCA AT 949-363-4700

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LOCA (LAGUNA OUTREACH FOR COMMUNITY ARTS) IS NON PROFIT.

REGISTER AND GET STARTED WITH YOUR NEW YEAR AND

YOUR NEW JOURNEY INTO ART, FLOWERS AND THE SEA...

ALL IN LAGUNA BEACH!

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BLESSINGS,

SEPTEMBER

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First Painting of 2012!

"Hills Hotel - Red Chair #1"

This is my very first painting of 2012!

"Hills Hotel - Red Chair #1" is an original oil 

on a Raphael Linen Panel - 14" x 11"

(available from studio)

This brand new piece represents a direction I will

be heading towards in this wonderful New Year!

This is the year of the dragon...a year for change...

and... this is going to be the best year ever!!!!

My penchant for figurative renderings is even more

passionate than ever!  I am adding some brand new

 colors to my palette, and stretching to new heights

 new techniques, and some novel painterly surfaces 
to launch my 2012 series.

This year, my skin tones will take on porcelain hues

with softer edges and a focus on stunning features;

 distinctive features that draw you in and 
don't allow you to leave.

I plan on accentuating expressive graceful hands,

alluring lips and arresting eyes.

All women are so beautiful, inside and out.  

Capturing this inner beauty 

is my ultimate creative intent.  Portraying this

grace and elegance in my works my 

 hallmark!

My model for the Hills Hotel series is a wonderful,

effervescent, sweet and lovely young woman who
leaves you feeling happy just knowing her.
  She is an absolute joy and it is an honor to work with her.

I invite you, the viewer, to join me

in celebrating this wondrous New Year,
filled with limitless possibilities and dreams come true.

Look for some exciting news in forthcoming shows...

and stay tuned for new leading-edge paintings.

Magic and miracles are in store this year!

Blessings,

September McGee

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The Last Painting of 2011 by September McGee, American Impressionist

"The Blues Singer II"

14" x 11" oil on museum panel

I wanted to finish off 2011 with a painting that spoke of the flavor of another wonderful year now ending.  Interestingly it ended up being one of my paintings of musicians.   But then again, what better ending!

She took three nights at the easel, when she dries I will most likely

tweek a few things here and there...in the interim....

May your song be sung with passion, joy, love and magic

and....

May 2012 be the year of miracles for you!

Blessings,

September McGee

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Framing Insights from September McGee Studios

"Music Series - Streets of New Orleans - Washboard Woman"

This is a brand new painting of a New Orleans street musician.

I was fortunate to have one of my new found friends and collectors lend me a few photos she took of the street musicians while in New Orleans that she knew I would enjoy painting...and I did! I painted "Washboard Woman" on a museum panel and had fun using a lot of color and texture to capture the vitality and spirit of this woman.

When it came to framing this piece it simply wasn't going to work to have just any 'ole frame. Yes, a frame can make or break a painting! I take great care to find the perfect frame for each of my paintings. I want the frame to accent the painting without taking away from the piece and to complement and balance the colors and subject matter. It is never about matching any particular decor, curtains or heaven forbid, a couch. The frame becomes the setting, the foundation on which to present your latest creation to the world.

I felt this particular piece would do best in a frame that reverberated the sounds of the instrument she was playing and to accent the hues, unique textures and the flavor of New Orleans! I often use beautiful gold framing and black gallery frames on many of my paintings. This time I was hunting around in the back of my framers warehouse where he stacks many unusual mouldings and came upon this gorgeous 4" frame. I knew instantly it was the perfect setting to allow the energetic ebullience of "Washboard Woman" to pop and give it the pizazz and zing this painting demanded. I wanted the final framed piece to echo her rhythmic tones.

If the viewer gets close and really listens, they are forever re-sounding.

The washboard was originally used for, you guessed it, washing clothes and found its way into the music world years ago from a mix of many wonderful cultures. Jug bands became popular in the 1920s and used washboards. Zydeco, jazz and various forms of folk music employ this unique instrument which is generally embellished with the musicians individual sounds. Bells, pots, cans, and many other fun and creative adornments add to their repertoire. Metal thimbles, guitar picks and even bottle openers are used to tap or rub rhythmically across the ribbed surface of the instrument. The washboard, or sometimes called the froittoir, is worn over the shoulders of the player like a breastplate. Many musicians spend years perfecting their washboard and novel sounds.

There is only one company left in the United States that still makes washboards, the Columbus Washboard Company located in Ohio. They began manufacturing in 1895 and continue on today... and they are helping out our troops! They are sending shipments of laundry supplies and washboards to our troops to help them with their laundry chores. And, like my art, all their products are

Made in America!

I always promote buying products made in our wonderful USA. I am proud to be an American and believe we should all invest in American made goods.

This holiday season, check out the labels on the products you are purchasing.

Buy products made in America as often as you can. Support the arts and music.

They are the gifts that last forever and enrich our lives and touch our souls.

My special thanks to Tawnya, a gorgeous woman with engaging eyes and a lovely smile - a woman with a generous heart who lends beauty wherever she goes.

Blessings of the season and the day to everyone.

September McGee

p.s. "Washboard Woman" is a 14" x 11" oil on museum panel available from my studio. She did have some pots and other accoutrements on her board, but this painting was too small to add all the detail. When and if I do a larger painting of her I will certainly add on her musical pots and bells.

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Art - sweets - libations!

A special blog to invite you to my

Holiday Soiree!

Come see my new works and.....

enjoy

libations, sweets, egg nog

and surprises!

Saturday, December 10th

3pm til 8 pm

here in beautiful sunny Laguna Beach

at my studio

come for an hour - stay as long as you wish!

and make a few wishes while you are here.

Everyone goes home with a surprise!!!!

email me for directions:

septembermcgee@gmail.com

Hope to see you!

Blessings,

September McGee