tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4333406195821333213..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: More Rockport reminiscencesStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47057786758831652992011-06-02T17:26:00.235-04:002011-06-02T17:26:00.235-04:00John C. Terelak, Stape.I should know I was his fir...John C. Terelak, Stape.I should know I was his first student at the old Gloucester Academy. Ha,ha got ya on spelling! <br /> I have enjoyed reading about the good old days!DBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17980452763170160055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83371520533341597812011-06-02T00:48:09.519-04:002011-06-02T00:48:09.519-04:00Stape, Sarahsbooks is exactly right. Don't swe...Stape, Sarahsbooks is exactly right. Don't sweat the book, it is writing itself. Just keep sweating the blog. When you are done you'll have enough material for several books from several angles; a painters life, instructional, historical, or any mixture you wish. You probably have enough good material(with editing and some fleshing out) for two good books already.<br /><br />For any readers interested in looking them up, there were three more Rockport posts equally fun: One on August 27,2009, and then on September 9 & 10, 2009. <br /><br />Stape, in one of those posts(10/09)you mention "I also saw the Cirino estate. Antonio Cirinos system of placing highlights and accents lives on in my own painting." I'm not sure I recall this "system" in any post. Would be interesting to read about when the spirit moves you. Theres some description in the 7/30/09 "Hows and Whys" post, but not sure it's the Cirino method you mention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-45778016164226830662011-06-01T23:55:38.947-04:002011-06-01T23:55:38.947-04:00Like everyone, I'm really enjoying this journe...Like everyone, I'm really enjoying this journey back into Rockport.<br />And, like Willek, I'd love to know what you all talked about. <br />Do you miss it? Nobody in their right mind would open a gallery these days, so I imagine you wouldn't dream of doing THAT again....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-82729250363395008512011-06-01T15:56:41.088-04:002011-06-01T15:56:41.088-04:00Wow. You've got my memories going; I lived in ...Wow. You've got my memories going; I lived in Rockport for two summers in the early 80's, and worked on Bearskin Neck - at a glass blowing shop and various other places. I used to pose for Ohrvel Carlson. Lived across the street from his studio, where he and his wife Carol would bake 30+ loaves of amazing bread in a day and hand it out to the neighborhood. He played his violin a lot too, and came to the quarries with us to swim & paint watercolor studies of granite & water (& all of us) which left everyone standing there watching in awe of his talent. There's a portrait of Ellen at Ellen's Restaurant that my mother did in the 70's. My friends and I used to sit at the Headlands and sketch in the late afternoons. You're right: the place just oooozed Art. We were too young to appreciate the density, variety and openness of talent there at the time, but I'll never forget it. Thanks for writing about it and waking up my memories.belindadelpesco.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062375277740529374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-35701025629919339542011-06-01T12:50:52.345-04:002011-06-01T12:50:52.345-04:00What I keep thinking is, these were real people, w...What I keep thinking is, these were real people, with their lives... ..not just names, Stephanie's story was moving - and upliftingJonInFrancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623398725744947374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-52800632623836825692011-06-01T12:29:33.497-04:002011-06-01T12:29:33.497-04:00Stape! Your roots run deep. It takes a sense of pu...Stape! Your roots run deep. It takes a sense of purpose and a love for it to continue as you do.<br /><br />It's not so much what your looking at as how you see it.billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43346552903450110652011-06-01T10:08:26.617-04:002011-06-01T10:08:26.617-04:00Nice to hear your memories of Joe Santoro. My mot...Nice to hear your memories of Joe Santoro. My mother was his next door neighbor in Cambridge, MA, and in fact one of my sisters has the middle name Joy, after his daughter. I have a large coastal watercolor of his, hanging up here in Maine. <br /><br />You *are* writing a book - in short chapters! You have enough on this blog to put it all together someday, or even have an editor sift through and do it for you. Don't wait too long...Sarah Faragherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05549704219837574185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-69476473132693082012011-06-01T08:52:58.632-04:002011-06-01T08:52:58.632-04:00Yes, Dot I agree with you . A movie ! Stape you ca...Yes, Dot I agree with you . A movie ! Stape you can make some really big bucks on this story. Its fascinating. <br />And Willek - good questions. Just what did they say and do? I think this time you were there still had bits of the era before...now it is gone.Mary Byromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647925500872647350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-65060151105636313692011-06-01T08:16:22.701-04:002011-06-01T08:16:22.701-04:00Yeah, but what did they SAY!? Vickery came in and ...Yeah, but what did they SAY!? Vickery came in and demoed with you, but what about the others? Did you talk about other pictures? Did you converse about composition?, Color Pallets? Easels? How to lay on the paint? Or did they complain about failing eyesight and arthritis?willekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-29079095620043618532011-06-01T07:49:55.152-04:002011-06-01T07:49:55.152-04:00My first memorable trip to Bearskin Neck and Rockp...My first memorable trip to Bearskin Neck and Rockport was in the late 50's. I was taken up as a companion to my friend over a summer 's week at Wingersheek Beach. It was my first time away from parents and home.<br /><br /> We went to the artist colony...and that's when I figured artists must be a very different breed if they had to live in little houses all together and kept away from the general population at large. I was selling my own art work then for a nickel a piece. ( You are who you were.) I knew I was doomed.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-39764081461301076492011-06-01T07:30:58.066-04:002011-06-01T07:30:58.066-04:00I wonder what the collective opinion among the Roc...I wonder what the collective opinion among the Rockport artists of the '80's was of the artists who lived in Provincetown, MA? That's a town I know a bit but Rockport is still on my to-do list.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-27261525282111370822011-06-01T01:04:23.357-04:002011-06-01T01:04:23.357-04:00After reading both posts about Stephanie and then ...After reading both posts about Stephanie and then this...I've decided this isn't a book - it's a MOVIE. It's wonderful and mesmerizing. <br />If I were walking on the sidewalk listening to it being read, you definitely would have to take the street...Dot Coursonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00480008607594406482noreply@blogger.com