Making Their Marks #48 "Adieu"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #43 "Eucalyptus"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #46 "Remembering"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #9 "The Autumn Poets"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

We got to the moment of the opening, and then everything just stopped! It was a colossal event, with over 200 guests, coming and going, hugging and kissing, from which I have emerged with a cold, but also with the great warmth of community. Here is a link to the gallery's website. http://www.greenmountainfineart.com/artist.php?aID=57 Many more pictures will follow after we get some sleep.

Mickey and Teresa visit Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery

My sister, Teresa Myers, and I went over to the gallery yesterday afternoon, and were thrilled with Sandy Noble's stunning installation of MAKING THEIR MARKS. It is such a lot of work to be dealing with, though she has installed it in a most serene arrangement, that the viewer is not overwhelmed by the quantity of pieces.

Making Their Marks #12 "Magenta Marie"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #14 "Reflecting on the Day"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #16 "The Silence of Stars"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #15 "Talking to the Moon"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #18 Luminaria

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
Although this drawing has nothing to do with New Mexico, its title betrays my fascination with candlelight outdoors at night.

Making Their Marks #19 "The Scent of Winter"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #20 "Vespers"

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Making Their Marks #21 "Testimony"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Delivery Day

All 63 pieces in MAKING THEIR MARKS were delivered to Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery today, bringing almost three years of printing and drawing to a moment of eagerly anticipated passage. Gallery director Sandy Noble now has three days to install the work before the show opens on Friday. As I was driving toward the gallery, I felt a weight was lifting from my shoulders, and went straight back home to work on the next series, The Lamoille Series, which can be seen at http://www.mickeymyers.blogspot.com/.

Making Their Marks #23 "Convocation"

Making Their Marks #22 "Incantation"

Making Their Marks #24 "Passage"

Making Their Marks #25 "Jubilation"

Making Their Marks #29 "Rainy Day"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
Isn't it just? This piece could have been drawn today. In fact all the posts today, whether they depict spring or fall, depict fragility.

Making Their Marks #30 "Old Orchard in October"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
One of the most vivid visuals in my memory was a late fall trip to the coast of Maine, where the only place accepting visitors was on Old Orchard Beach. Though not necessarily my favorite destination in Maine, the sunsets were breathtaking, shimmering, pure Impressionism. Periodically I pull out those memories for inspiration.

Making Their Marks #32 "A Walk on the Moon"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
With all the new information about water on the moon, this title seems timely, but actually came from a documentary about the first moon walk, shared by a friend last summer.

Making Their Marks #22 "Get Well Flowers"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
On this dark November day, it is jarring to recall the yellow in the garden, depicted in this print, when the sun was shining.

Making Their Marks #35 "South Wind Stirs the Pond"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
We are quite familiar with the concept of "ponds" in Vermont. Ponds, brooks and streams, the river behind my house, another (bigger) river down the road, the reservoir, all dot and criss cross our terrain, our neighborhood.

Making Their Marks # 34 "A Measure of Grace"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
What is grace?

Making Their Marks #36 "Neptune"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
Whenever I read the word neptune, I think of my Uncle Perry. So unexpectedly, he acquainted death with the power of Neptune. I could never figure out his thinking, but I love the blue liquidity of the image of Neptune. . . . .and Uncle Perry was pretty special too.

Making Their Marks #37 "Quiver"

5" X 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #57 "Purple Dusk"

14" x 14" pastel over monoprint
Here are some of the larger works in the series.

Making Their Marks #58 "Deep and Lovely Autumn Quiet"

14" x 14" Pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #59 "Velvet Mountain"

15" x 15" pastel over monoprint
This is the only print in this series this size, and it served as a study for another series that I have developed subsequently. (The Lamoille Project, working title.) To see more of that work, go to www.mickeymyers.blogspot.com

Making Their Marks #62 "A Flush of Rose"

13 1/2" x 13" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #39 "Above the Trees"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
These four posts today betray the many moods of the color blue.

Making Their Marks #40 "Night Light"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #42 "Taken by Trees"

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Making Their Marks #41 "Reverie"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
This piece reminded me of a composition by Debussey.

Making Their Marks #5 "Sandia Mountains"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
This piece required very little pastel. You may know how my heart belongs in New Mexico, and this piece sums it up.

Making Their Marks #12 "Oasis"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint.
I am intrigued by the word "oasis," and its implications, which I apply to this composition, as well.

Making Their Marks #2 "Bonjour"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
Dana vanderHeyden often greets with the word "Bonjour." After all, she was a Professor of French! This piece epitomized for me the friendliness of that word.

Making Their Marks #28 "Wings"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint
This is my drawing of an angel.

Mickey with Marc and Dana vanderHeyden

Here I am with Marc and Dana vanderHeyden, in whose honor this series of monoprint pastels is offered. I had just dropped off all the images at the framer when they came by, and since they hadn't seen the work in person, we went over to Milk Room Framery where this picture was taken.

Making Their Marks #38 "Harp of the Wind"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #27 "Light Laughs the Breeze"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #1 Harmony

This was the very first print in the series, and the minute I finished it, I knew something wonderful was about to transpire.

Making Their Marks # 31 "In Memory of Benazir Bhutto"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint.

I drew into this print within the hour of learning of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, and throughout working on it, I could think of nothing else. So it became a homage piece to her.

Making Their Marks #45 Raspberry Mountain

Countdown to the opening of MAKING THEIR MARKS at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe!


Everyday until the opening, I'll post some images for the show, to whet your appetite and encourage your attendance. The opening is Friday, November 20, from 6 - 8, and the exhibit continues through the second week of Janury.

Come back tomorrow and every day to see more of the 60 images in the exhibit.

Making Their Marks #44 "Encore"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #3 "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"

5" x 5" pastel over monoprint

Making Their Marks #1 Night Watch

Exhibit opens November 20

If you'd like to receive a hard copy invitation to this exhibit at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe, on November 20, 2009, send me your mailing address at mickeyvt@aol.com Otherwise, return here often over the next 3 weeks, as I intend to post the entire exhibit, gradually, until it opens. This is the image on the announcement. The original is 16 x 20".