tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79468024328318137642024-02-06T18:15:44.926-08:00Hadley's studioHadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-20372018772567293632021-09-03T14:10:00.002-07:002021-09-03T14:13:39.402-07:00 "No one's on the streets We moved it all online as of March"<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div>In March last year I took a four month long break from the studio. I still could have driven there, and even found parking. But I would have felt like a hypocrite doing that while at the same time appreciating the clean air so much. And in the early days we didn't even know if we were safe walking down the street.</span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I had thought I couldn't be happy without painting and going to the studio every day, but it turned out to be OK. I sewed a lot, cooked up a storm, caught up on stuff that went neglected for years, and even gardened a little. It was actually a relief not to do open studios, after 21 consecutive years. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Started going to the studio once, then twice, now three or four times a week. Even though sales have continued on UGallery, I really lost my mojo. Gallery 30 South's Coaster Show gave me a much-needed boost - I admire the curator Matt Kennedy's work (I was in La Luz de Jesus' Everything but the Kitschen Sync once), knew about the Coaster Show, and wanted to give it a try. I did four paintings in oil on coaster (Fort Point Beer Co. round coasters from the Rite Spot Cafe, thank you)! They were so much fun to do. You can see the whole show at <a href="https://gallery30south.com/coaster-show-2021/">https://gallery30south.com/coaster-show-2021/</a></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5C0MQfnOOkwI7ddwLrNZg_fo0mhNaHG_R9kFNMWf1wwKusHBWpwD6iPOGTV4R-jK-QSWpLaJbXvPSwfEa7biVDEV3TuteHhvpyP2mCel4VRluQzHlh5ewrYRIgJFpLkZwz6RlY5qwF6em/s1494/IMG_1477.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="1494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5C0MQfnOOkwI7ddwLrNZg_fo0mhNaHG_R9kFNMWf1wwKusHBWpwD6iPOGTV4R-jK-QSWpLaJbXvPSwfEa7biVDEV3TuteHhvpyP2mCel4VRluQzHlh5ewrYRIgJFpLkZwz6RlY5qwF6em/s320/IMG_1477.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Netflix and podcasts have been an education and connection to the world. I've been listening to No Dogs in Space for a post-bac in post punk, That Record Got Me High (title of this post is a lyric from the Arctic Monkeys album they covered; I don't even listen to them but it was a fascinating discussion), A Matter of Life and Debt about student debt, and Social Distance which sadly is over, even though I for one continue to socially distance.</span></div><div><span face="Programme, Arial, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div>Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-44727757154897626982018-10-19T21:18:00.002-07:002018-10-19T21:18:27.567-07:0020th Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-11539122557606454592017-11-03T11:24:00.000-07:002017-11-03T11:45:04.607-07:00Many Links<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've been working on lots of small paintings and a few large ones. My Open Studios is next weekend, November 11 and 12! There's also the grand ArtSpan Open Studios exhibition, featuring hundreds of participating artists. This year a couple of my tiny caravans are in the Tiny show at Studio Gallery, and I am continuing to exhibit on UGallery.com, rotating in new pieces as sales are made.<br />
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Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-21463265618115573682017-08-29T22:54:00.000-07:002017-08-29T22:54:11.031-07:00Online and Real LifeI have select paintings available on an online gallery called UGallery:<br />
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And in real life, I have a collection of paintings up at the beautiful <a href="http://www.theroyalesf.com/welcome/" target="_blank">Royale</a>, 800 Post St. at Leavenworth in San Francisco through September 30. With panoramic San Francisco photographs by Sean Vallely.Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-54602956311862409222017-03-04T10:59:00.004-08:002017-03-04T10:59:34.629-08:00Three Ring Circus of art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'll be in another three person exhibition at San Francisco's fabulous, beloved <a href="http://glamarama.com/">Glama-Rama!</a><br />
This time it's three painters: Kytha Gernatt, Wendy Marlatt and me.<br />
Kytha paints intense landscape and travel-inspired squares in mainly primary colors, reminiscent of the Fauves; Wendy studies from life and also draws and paints surreal figures combining the human and animal; and I'll be showing my framed canvatex paintings of women and some large, colorful, musical scenes.<br />
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Open 10am - 7pm Tues. - Sun.<br />
The show runs through June 11Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-88611973864012117782017-01-21T19:26:00.000-08:002017-01-21T19:26:00.245-08:00This painting will appear at. . . <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Here's my wall at Blackbird Bar, where three artists are showing through San Francisco Open Studios this year.<br />
I've also dropped off my painting at <a href="http://www.somarts.org/">SOMArts Gallery</a> for the ArtSpan Open Studios Exhibition. That's work by hundreds of artists, and a good way to pick up a guide and figure out who you want to visit by seeing one piece in person by each participating artist. The show is open Tues. - Fri. noon - 7pm, Sat. 11am - 5pm, and Sun. 11am - 3pm through November 6. The Dia de los Muertos exhibition is concurrent with ArtSpan until November 5, right next door. See the link for information. I hope to see you next month!Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-54268023894373202212016-09-18T07:08:00.001-07:002016-09-18T07:08:48.951-07:00Blackbird<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm really pleased to be included in this show at Blackbird, a beautiful bar on Market Street. You know I love my beautiful bars, especially if they have good snacks. A Hub Exhibition means it's a neighborhood space highlighting ArtSpan Open Studios artists, and will be up through Open Studios, so until about November 7. </div>
Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-23437436200233833852016-09-02T20:22:00.001-07:002016-10-04T16:54:24.584-07:00A Painting a Day (sort of)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finally did it and started an Instagram for my paintings. I put out a painting a day, and in return I get to see beautiful photos of delicious food in fancy restaurants, or that one of the coolest couples in rock and roll was in my neighborhood and I just missed them. Please follow me at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hadley_northrop_art/">https://www.instagram.com/hadley_northrop_art/</a></div>
<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-83722878244418362842016-08-05T10:45:00.001-07:002016-08-05T10:46:31.435-07:00Print<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Countdown to Open Studios! Less than three months to go, if you can believe it. Postcard done (thanks to the Modern Postcard summer sale), ArtSpan guide ad sent in (no Velvet Underground style this time), and now to do the online banner ad and our Christmas card. Then maybe, if there's time before November, a magnet! None of this would be possible without Sean's incredible graphic design and Mac skills, because I'm stuck in the 19th Century. What's a computer?Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-90347688794534149652016-07-05T22:12:00.002-07:002016-07-05T22:12:35.017-07:00Girls<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I took some time off from the studio because I got a puppy! She came in with me a few times because I had to finish a project, but mostly we stayed at home and took naps on the floor. My long walks, daily work momentum and energy level have been seriously disrupted. Today it felt great to begin a large new painting with a thick brush and new Gamsol thinners.Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-14990370739858645882016-06-02T11:21:00.000-07:002016-06-02T11:21:13.891-07:00Made in USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's nothing like getting a new container to organize your stuff! I deserved this - I kept my paints in the same Plano tackle box since college. It finally gave out and I got a nice, clean new one. It was made in the USA, too.Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-87054223440268919492016-05-06T18:33:00.001-07:002016-05-06T18:33:42.315-07:00And I love foxes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still obsessed with my studio - all I want to do is paint - and pressing forward with many slow pieces approaching the finish line together.<div>
I had the idea to paint a fox for a new vegan restaurant that was supposed to open near my studio called Citizen Fox. Before I could even start or talk to them, and after three years of sporadic construction, the project was called off and they're closing their two pop-up locations. I don't know what to think. This neighborhood doesn't need any more fancy restaurants, bars or cafes, but it definitely needs more vegetarian places. They feel like a refuge to many of my friends and me. You always know they're going to be kind of groovy there!</div>
Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-25102499920919089202016-04-18T22:58:00.001-07:002016-04-18T22:58:20.790-07:00Quagmires<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Pro: I love walking to my studio<div>
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Lately I have been working on over fifteen paintings at once, which was getting a little overwhelming - seven or eight is more normal for me and feels more manageable. So I assigned the paintings numbers 1 - 15. I keep a log where each day I write my hours and what I worked on, and the number system makes it easier to scan back over and cycle through, so for example if I work on two paintings a day for a week, I've put in time on 14 paintings and can start at the beginning again on a piece that's had time to dry enough to not go muddy. It's still as slow going as ever, but I feel like I'm getting somewhere.<div>
Another thing that makes me feel like I know where I'm going is black lines. I've been told to avoid them in paintings, but after years of taking that advice, I'm kind of letting myself throw it out the window. Anyway if someone asks me to describe my art, I've often said it's like a cross between Impressionism and comics! A black outline feels so definite and right. <div>
Was about to donate a loyal hound to a fundraiser when I noticed they required items created in the last three years. Wow, this one is from 2000. OK, never mind.</div>
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Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-28774777978828156242016-02-10T21:49:00.000-08:002016-02-10T21:49:53.170-08:00Scones and MojoI found a British program called <a href="http://www.ovationtv.com/series/portrait-artist-of-the-year/">Portrait Artist of the Year</a> on Ovation TV and am amazed not just by the enduring fascination with portraiture, but that there could be such thoughtful discussion of painting on television! I hear that's the appeal of the Great British Baking Show: no drama, just appreciation for the craft and the quiet concentration of those who do it well.<br />
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Happy to say I have done some curating, putting together three artists who will show at Glama-Rama Salon & Gallery early next year. Each artist's work is so distinct, so personal, and yet I think they'll be magic together and in that space. I'll keep you posted on this matchmaking venture and their colorful and surreal adventures!</div>
Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-40992060762952267302016-01-20T21:24:00.002-08:002016-01-20T21:24:38.784-08:00Stars<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Happy New Year - well, not very happy, as this is now a world without David Bowie. I don't think it's completely sunk in yet.<br />
We also lost Chicago musician Kevin Junior, who was only 46 (my age). I always used to look forward to his band the Chamber Strings playing San Francisco, and how he'd look so cool I'd think, too late, "that would make a good painting!"<br />
<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-84674042196352037962015-12-06T23:17:00.000-08:002016-02-10T21:45:31.202-08:00Winter's here<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-24915342241303870852015-11-02T22:28:00.001-08:002015-11-02T22:28:26.642-08:00This Very Weekend<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We were just in Scotland for three weeks. Revisited the sandy white beaches of the Outer Hebrides, and even the campsite and lone caravan that were the inspiration for many paintings. We saw the Northern Lights over a quiet loch, and the Fairy Pools with a steady queue of tourists. In my beloved Glasgow, we visited Kelvingrove Art Gallery and the Glasgow School of Art (still under repair following last year's tragic fire), and took a day trip by train to Edinburgh, where we were lucky enough to see the BP Portrait Award at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It's a popular and fascinating show, and so inspirational for anyone who loves painting people. I feel I must follow my heart back to that area of work. Maybe someday I could even apply for that prize.<br />
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Here's a link so you can check out all of the artists who will be participating in Open Studios this weekend:<br />
<a href="http://openstudios2015.weebly.com/">Box Factory 2015</a>Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-75676762036166068062015-09-26T22:59:00.003-07:002015-09-26T22:59:36.596-07:00The Postcard!<br />
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<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-66911077514844677722015-09-23T22:32:00.000-07:002015-09-23T22:32:02.937-07:00Secrets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a work in progress, a tent in the moonlight. With almost every painting, I'll be at this early stage and wonder if I should just leave it while it's bold and loose. Finishing it, the way I paint, will take forever and I get tired just thinking about all that work - and afraid of messing up the painting and losing the freshness it has now. But would people go for it? Maybe they'd just think I ran out of time, or that I was trying to turn out more pieces more quickly. Maybe they'd tell me they're so glad I'm not overworking my paintings anymore.<br />
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Here are some more secrets:<br />
Gamblin's radiant yellow saves so much time mixing paint (that's it on the tent).<br />
Winsor & Newton magenta is also there and is a great sketcher, carrier, and way to make colors sweeter.<br />
I make a nice warm black bean color with ultramarine blue, cobalt violet and burnt sienna to use in place of black sometimes. Wish I could get that premixed.<br />
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I don't paint for about the first hour in the studio, and instead sit and drink coffee and look at my phone. Then, at the end of the day when it's time to go home, I'm running late and wishing I had more time.<br />
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People are my favorite subject to paint, but I don't enjoy doing commissioned portraits very much - it's too much pressure. And there's not much of a market for "people I don't know looking back at me." This doesn't make sense to me though, because interiors in magazines always have plenty of portraits and figurative work. It doesn't matter who the person is - they just look cool.<br />
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I just photographed all my smallest paintings with my phone, and I think the images look fine.<br />
<br />Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-71699232904135158682015-09-03T09:34:00.002-07:002015-09-03T09:34:31.379-07:00Open Studios 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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. . . Only two months away! There will be five artists at the Box Factory this year. More information soon. . .Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-84947437275270195442015-08-04T22:12:00.001-07:002015-08-04T22:12:07.164-07:00Devotion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Oops I skipped a month. No shows coming up besides Open Studios in November, and I've already been thinking about that. Sean and I just submitted our guide for the ad, and probably no one will be able to tell, but the inspiration was Andy Warhol's Factory and the Velvet Underground. I was obsessed with that scene when I was in high school.<br />
Still painting every day, still walking to and from the studio. Still wearing a full face of makeup every day (I <i>love</i> makeup, maybe because I'm a painter).<br />
The late, notorious London dandy Sebastian Horsley wrote, "Art doesn't pay, but the hours are good." I feel like I work so slowly, and sometimes I make a big necessary change that is the painting equivalent of backtracking miles and losing days. It takes boldness and then sacrifice and then back to the patience. I guess it's because I'm in love with painting that I have that steadfast patience with it.<br />
Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946802432831813764.post-32912460383544960372015-06-15T22:58:00.001-07:002015-06-15T23:01:49.981-07:00Can I have some remedy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Range oil on canvas 18 x 18 in.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"All of us are a little bit unbalanced. . . We're drawn in art very often to the sort of things that are missing in our lives. . . We try and find, in art, the things which we've lost contact with in our own lives, so there's an element of rebalancing,</span><span style="font-size: large;">" </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alain de Botton said in an interview about his book <a href="http://www.artastherapy.com/">Art As Therapy</a>. On the website, you can be prescribed an artwork for different emotional and life problems. It's an interesting experiment, and I agree that art can be a refuge and a remedy. We all know that music can do it, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just wrote for an application that "the subjects that have always most attracted me are those with some romance to them: old-fashioned architecture, sparkling and glowing lights, sweet colors and a harmonious simplicity.<span style="font-size: 12px;">" </span> So, with my paintings, I'm trying to conjure constancy in a changing world and bonhomie in lonely times. I'm aiming for the subtle feelings of wonder, adventure, comfort and enthusiasm as an antidote to anxiety and overwhelm. </span>Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812683768187279907noreply@blogger.com0