8" x 10", oil on linen.Bring your laptop or peruse the bookshelf and hang out with a cup of coffee and Fred the cat if it's early, or come by a little later for some live music and beer while you sit under the 'stars' (hundreds of those little white lights) that line the ceiling, and you're at The Charleston .
I couldn't put it better than the description from The Charleston's website:
You are traveling through to another dimension,
a dimension not only of sight and sound but of
liquid. It is a dimension as vast as a corner
saloon and timeless as infinity. It is the
middle ground between light and shadow,
between coffee and Cuervo, between
Dickens and Shakespeare.
To some it is the first city of the New World, to
others a frivolous bit of nostalgia left over from
the jazz age. This is a dimension of the
imagination or if you prefer, a tavern.
It is in the area which we call
The Charleston.
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8 comments:
Hi Karen
This is just delightful. It just grabs me. I love your presentation. Really really great! Looking forward to more of these.
What an excellent painting and post! I love how well developed this painting is. There's something new here...confidence? An emotional engagement? A developed signature? YES. That's it. You've integrated all of your workshops and different approaches here, made something new from it all...and it is very successful.
It's really fun to go on the pub crawl with you too. :)
Oh, it's wonderful! I hope you are at least having a beer at each one of these local establishments ...
Karen, you are so creative and wonderfully able to paint mood in both oils and words!
You're making me thirsty! Do any of these establishments have beer gardens? Another wonderful painting, Karen!
You all are great! Your collective comments never fail to encourage me, make me smile, and point out things I've not even thought of.
Kathleen, there are thankfully a lot more pubs to paint around here! :)
Thanks Melinda for your insight. I appreciate here a lot because I was a bit unsure about the development of this one...was it 'too much', too many things? Glad to hear that you see it as a successful amount of development.
Ha! Leslie, that is funny, believe me, we do enjoy our beers at them all!
Wow, thanks Marian, That's my hope, always, to get at the feeling, the emotion, the mood.
Janelle, I get thirsty when I'm painting them! (too bad it's often like 8am--is that too early to have a beer?). These ones are all so old school, that they actually don't have beer gardens, they're all in old storefronts, so you have to hole up inside.
This is such a great series. Just did my very first pub crawl. It was lots of fun. Not quite the character of the pubs back where you are, but charcter non the less.
These are just wonderful. Can't wait to see more.
Yay Dori, your first pub crawl! Oh there are many more pubs around here to check out! :)
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