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Cordelia Cagliostro
Learning from other artists and getting an inside look at their process is beneficial in so many ways. There are always tips and tricks to learn, and we can also get a glimmer of their own inspiration. The following interview is from Painted Blossoms by Carrie Schmitt, who has a colorful Q&A with mixed-media artist Jessica Swift. See how Jessica employs stamping techniques and bravely uses color to create the gorgeous pieces you see featured here.
Carrie Schmitt: Describe how you create your gorgeous, colorful paintings.
Jessica Swift: My painting process is very intuitive. I begin with a blank canvas or wood panel and start covering it with patches of color without thinking about it too much. The goal is to quickly cover all the white space. I use a combination of medium bodied acrylics and fluid acrylics, spraying the fluid acrylics to create drips. I often create a lot of these patchy, drippy backgrounds at the same time, working quickly to cover many canvases with color.
CS: What do you do if your painting is not going smoothly?
JS: I let the process guide me, constantly asking my painting what it needs. I step back and look, and wait until the next move presents itself.
CS: How do you make colors sing?
JS:My paintings are nothing BUT color! From start to finish, my paintings are composed of color upon color upon color. Putting certain colors next to one another can make them sing; using complementary colors is one of the easiest ways to achieve this type of resonant song. Red next to green, orange next to blue, etc.
It gets really interesting when you think of all the infinite types of each complementary color that you could combine. How would a rusty red and a lime green look next to one another? What about a vermilion red and a forest green? I think about these types of color questions often when I feel like my painting is missing something. I ask myself, What is the most unusual color I could add into this palette right now? Unusual color combinations add so much visual interest to a painting!
It has removed the '+' sign and gave me the date and time part, but I feel I am doing it wrong because i don't have good knowledge from datetime processing!My goal is to just get date and time like "2011-10-01 00:38:44" and the type be "datetime" not object as I am still getting!
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The deadline for submissions to the Wellfleet Youth Film Festival has been extended to April 30, due to the coronavirus-related closings of schools and public buildings. Sponsor Wellfleet Preservation Hall has postponed festival screenings to a date to be announced soon.
If I know The Film Experience crowd you've already heard that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Tom Hooper's screen adapation of Les Miserables, affectionately known all over God's green earth (that show has travelled everywhere) as "Les Miz". I personally couldn't be more thrilled since Jackman as song & dance man is my all time favorite Jackman. Since I love all the other incarnations of Jackman with great muchness that is saying a hell of a lot.
You may recall that we did a "Cast This" awhile back and Hugh Jackman was the favorite choice for starring in the comments. My greatest desire IF they secure Jackman -- who has been so ready to sing onscreen that he even supposedly did it in Chinese in his cameo in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (opening soon) -- that the studio won't feel they have to have huge stars in every role and will cast according to actual vocal/acting gifts. Les Miz is not "pop" music. You can't have a pleasant voice with tiny range and merely be able to carry a tune. You've got to be able to carry epic melodrama in your voice.
Les Miz is a beast of a property and will be terrifically hard to pull off but it COULD make a great film. Especially if they cast well and cast for the roles andvoices and not from fear and bet-hedging. It's a long long way until a first trailer (ha!) but IF when it arrives, Hollywood is trying to pretend that it ISN'T a musical, as so many modern musicals have done (despite notable box office successes in the genre in the past decade), than we'll know they blew it and the studio is nervous. But for now, I'm trying to stay optimistic. Hugh Jackman would sure help boost the possibility that it will be a great film version.
Les Miz is a beast of a property and will be terrifically hard to pull off but it COULD make a great film. Especially if they cast well and cast for the roles andvoices and not from fear and bet-hedging.
I think what annoyed me about NINE was it was a film ashamed to be a musical. Embrace the genre. Embrace the music and the style. It's annoying to be a fan of musicals and then see that the studio has given me nothing to enjoy. They should at least please the fans and work on bring more fans to the fold. Otherwise they end up pleasing no one.
Alejandro -- yes, people can smell fear. I honestly think this is part of the reason that Hairspray and Dreamgirls made $100 mill or thereabouts. They didn't pretend they weren't musicals. Shame is a big turnoff for people, even if subconsciously so.
Honestly, I'm not that familiar with Lez Mis. I'm just of the opinion that it's REALLY difficult to make movie musicals work these days. A lot of them are really uninteresting to me. I think it really only works if you go over the top, big, silly (i.e. Hairspray which I thought was fine) or if you go really small and sweet (i.e. Once). Tom Hooper is not, to me, the type that inspires me to be excited for a musical. I'm imagining a very self-serious musical film.
I would love for Lea Michele and Anne Hathaway to be in this.
I'm kind of ashamed to admit [since I'm a theatre person] but I don't really know Les Miz at all.
Soo...this motivates me to get to know it better haha.
awesome awesome awesome. i know that when the news came out that hooper was planning to make it (back in March, maybe?) most of the blogs automatically suggested hugh jackman and i thought that it was a great idea. I kind of want Anna Kendrick to be in this in some context, because I loved her singing parts in the past ("Camp" and her Broadway history), though I admit she may not fit very well.
Hugh has just finished two-week one-man show in Toronto and he's told audiences that he was going to do Les Mis. Check out this video of Hugh signing outside the stage door after one of his shows - at about :45 he answers questions about Les Mis and says he's playing Valjean, and even sings a bit of "24601" at the end.
The origin of the Scout Vespers song is unknown. No one seems to know when or by whom the song was written by. However, the earliest online mention of this classic song is on Youtube and dated to be from 1996.
In your own troop, when singing Scout Vespers, try to create a significant experience. Stay solemn and really feel the weight of the song. Often, when I was a scout, we hummed the melody of the song following the end of the lyrics, but on really special occasions, we sang to the tune of a soundtrack.
I'm constantly writing new content because I believe in Scouts like you! Thanks so much for reading, and for making our world a better place. Until next time, I'm wishing you all the best on your journey to Eagle and beyond!
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Jacob Weber, cantor at Emmanuel Lutheran Church and School in Dearborn, Mich., composed a version suitable for congregations with smaller musical resources, and Jonathan Kohrs, assistant professor of music at Concordia, Chicago, composed one for those with more extensive resources.
Also featured were over 50 presenters teaching on such varied topics as acoustics; catechesis; children in church; engaging youth in music ministry; singing the psalms; instruments in worship; strategies for organists, choir and handbell directors; day school chapel; chanting; and bilingual worship.
Selections ranged from Palestrina, Luther, Schtz and Bach, to Widor, Hogan, Orbn and Arnesen, celebrating the Spirit as the One who calls, gathers, enlightens, sanctifies and sustains the Church. In an insert to the concert book, LCMS Worship expressed its gratitude to Dr. Robert H. Duesenberg for his contribution to making this event possible.
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