{"id":12667,"date":"2013-04-16T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2022-09-11T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:40:48","slug":"miss-blanchettes-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/04\/16\/miss-blanchettes-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Blanchette’s Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blanchette\"<\/p>\n

I found this painting while searching through my flat files the other day. It was given to me on my birthday by an elderly women when I worked in a convalescent home in high school.<\/p>\n

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St. Joseph Home for the Aged<\/p><\/div>\n

Her name was Albina Blanchette (“Bina” for short), she was a retired piano teacher and a painter. Despite her age, she was pretty sharp and had a great sense of humor, we got along famously! When she discovered there was a fellow artist in her midst, she showed me some of her work and talked about her technique.<\/p>\n

This particular painting was done by dipping a palette knife in paint and dragging it across a sheet of paper. Miss Blanchette would look at the results – this appeared to be a landscape with birds – she then went back in with a brush and worked on it. The final was cropped, glued to a piece of paper, and signed. I still marvel at her solution to the dreaded “blank canvas syndrome<\/a>“. Her painting ended up in my flat files as a victim of many moves, but now that we’re reunited, I think I’ll find a little frame for it and hang it in my studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this painting while searching through my flat files the other day. 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