tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139589602024-03-15T18:09:37.236-07:00My life, under the microscope...My art, news, stories, adventures, misadventures, and other random thoughts. :-)Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.comBlogger1628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-69257920956235496342015-01-01T00:04:00.003-08:002015-01-01T00:04:41.422-08:00Happy New Year!There has been so much I’ve left unsaid these last few years. Good stuff. Awesome stuff. Sad stuff. Bad stuff. Angsty stuff that I have been too [many words could fit in this space] to talk about. 2014 has been a year of ups and downs. Big ups and big downs. There are a few bright and sunny spots that stand out to me. People who lit up my world from the moment they entered it, huge accomplishments in business, new things that have sparked my interest, and some plain old darn good times. But the flip side has been some crushing disappointments and setbacks, and I have to say to 2014, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”<br /><br />A few months ago, I sat around with some of my artist friends, a bunch of “horse people” and we talked about how we all thought 2014 was going to be amazing for us because it was the Year of the Horse. Should be our year, right? And yet, it pretty much sucked, across the board, for everyone. Illness, loss, moving, family troubles, this wasn’t what we’d hoped for. I surmised that The Year of the Horse was only going to get awesome right at the end, that it was just going to be the kickoff for all the good stuff yet to come. And you know what, I think that just might be the case. :-) May the bright and sunny things that have sparked in the last few months turn into awesome things in the coming year.<br /><br />I know, I’m vague. When I’ve neglected to say so many things, I don’t even know where to start. I’ll try to do better.Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-20188086770158628862014-12-15T12:39:00.000-08:002014-12-15T12:53:17.361-08:00Where do I even begin?<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello neglected blog, it's been a while. One of my New Years resolutions needs to be to pay attention to you again...</span><br />
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I am leaving Oak Run, and moving back to Wilton. Probably in early January though I guess it depends a little on the weather! I'm grateful for the two and a half years I have spent here, there are things I will miss very much, but the time has come to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I need a fresh start, even if it is in an old place! But I need, NEED some real studio space to do my work, so some fund-raising is definitely in order to make that a reality, if you catch my drift. The timing on this caught me more than a little unprepared.</span><br />
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I have quite a lot of art available, and much of the older stuff is now marked down 25-50% off the original price. I even thought about doing one of those crowd-funding sites, but I want to earn it fair and square!</span><br />
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Interested in custom work? Let's talk! I can do just about anything you might want. :-)</span><br />
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I think you should be able to access this link even if you are not a Facebook member, I think I have this set up to be viewable to the public. If not let me know I can post everything here! I'm just up to my eyeballs trying to get Christmas-deadline projects completed, and looking to save a bit of time. ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also have cards and prints and other fabulously cool things available on my shiny new<br /><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><br /><a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/katherine-plumer.html" target="_blank">Fine Art America site!!!</a></span></span></div>
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-68217047105529252092014-03-13T15:58:00.001-07:002014-03-13T16:01:15.340-07:00it ain't over: fighting the ivory banYou can kick me and call me bad names later for being so utterly sucky about updating my blog, but I'm going to ask for your urgent help again.<br />
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On February 11, 2014, the White House and the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced the National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking & Commercial Ban on Trade in Elephant Ivory. This will criminalize the domestic ivory trade and made it all but impossible to do anything involving ivory.<br />
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In other words, it'll put me out of a job (or make me a criminal). And, for reasons I'll explain or better yet post links to, it won't help elephants at all.<br />
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The Advisory Council is meeting on March 20, 2014 in Washington, D.C. People may submit written comments about the ban by Monday March 17th. PLEASE email your comments to the council so as to create a record of the devastating impact the ban will have. The record is now filled with information and misinformation from people who want to see the domestic ivory trade killed. We really need to get our comments in there by the deadline. If large numbers of people write in, they will take note.<br />
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There is an EXCELLENT form letter <a href="http://www.bucksbusinesslaw.com/model-letter-to-advisory-council-for-wildlife-trafficking/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Insert your name and the date and fill in the bit the says what your interest is in ivory ("I collect knives." "I don't want to see my engraver friend lose her job." etc). Email that to the address shown on the page by Monday the 17th. Add whatever other info you want, cut and paste at will. Or write your own letter! Just make sure to get your comments in to cade_london@fws.gov by Monday the 17th.<br />
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There is an EXCELLENT article <a href="http://www.bucksbusinesslaw.com/domestic-ivory-ban-crushes-small-businesses/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Please share this with your friends, pass it along, send links, read it. This is all written by Robert Mitchell. His wife Tira is an engraver. They are good people and I am grateful to him for the research that he's done, and for posting all this information.<br />
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Email your congressperson and senators. You can use that same letter. Need help finding them? <a href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/" target="_blank">CONGRESS</a>. <a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" target="_blank">SENATORS</a>. You may find that some senator websites only allow a 5000 character submission. The form letter is significantly longer than that. I did some editing, reducing the verbiage, abbreviating, and taking out some of the information. If you need a less-than-5000-character letter, use the one below. Just keep the "about you" section to a few sentences and it should work.<br />
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PLEASE do this. I don't think many of you would come visit me in jail and I'd really like to keep doing what I love. Thank you...<br />
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ps- I had to disable anonymous commenting on this blog, I was getting spammed up the wazoo.<br />
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<span class="s1">I support the goal of stopping the poaching of elephants in Africa, Asia, or anywhere else in the world. Because of the important artistic, historical and economic value of ivory, I am also in favor of preserving the trade of domestic ivory in the US. I want to provide the Advisory Council with information and ideas to accomplish both goals. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The US is not contributing to elephant poaching in any meaningful way because the current laws are working. When the 1989 ban on exporting/importing African ivory went into place, it allowed the domestic trade of ivory that was already in the US (“pre-ban ivory”) to continue. There are a variety of sources for raw ivory including a few dealers who carry documented pre-ban ivory, museums with excess stock, estate sales of collectors, and a small amount from people who legally hunt elephants on safari with government permission from stable populations and who fund conservation efforts in African countries. The US has successfully isolated its domestic market from illegal poaching.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">In the <a href="http://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/factsheet-us-efforts-to-control-illegal-elephant-ivory-trade.pdf"><span class="s2">USFWS September 2012 Fact Sheet, U.S. Efforts to Control Illegal Elephant Ivory Trade and Internal Markets</span></a>, the Service summarized US laws already in effect and efforts to stop poaching of Asian and African elephants. The report described the Service’s seizures of illegally imported ivory between 1989 through 2007 and concluded that “we do not believe that there is a significant illegal ivory trade into this country.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">In the <a href="https://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/african_elephant_summit_background_document_2013_en.pdf"><span class="s2">December 2013 report “Status of African elephant populations and levels of illegal killing and the illegal trade in ivory: A report to the African Elephant Summit” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, African Elephant Specialist Group</span></a>, they found that while elephant poaching in Africa is increasing, the trend is closely associated with increases in consumer spending in China, the world’s largest consumer of illegal ivory. On the other hand, the relationship does not hold for ivory markets in Europe, the USA or Japan, nor for countries known to be transit points in the ivory trade chain (Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand or Viet Nam). <i>The report does not show any illegal trade involving the US after 2008</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">There are over 3000 small businesses in the US that use, embellish, repair, or provide services involving ivory. These will all be penalized by denying them materials for their trade or products that they rely upon and have nothing to do with elephant poaching in Africa. Artisans and craftspeople who have dedicated their lives to ivory carving and engraving will become obsolete or criminals, losing their livelihoods. And that is just on the business side.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">On the consumer side, millions of people who own items that contain ivory will be severely limited with what they can do with it. All of these items made from ivory taken from elephants that died decades if not generations ago will drop out of the legal stream of commerce without preventing a single elephant from dying in Africa.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Instead of antagonizing law abiding citizens engaged in trade in the US, the government should focus on border enforcement and affecting demand in China. To the extent the government believes poaching is an international crisis as stated in <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/07/05/2013-16387/combating-wildlife-trafficking"><span class="s2">Executive Order 13648</span></a>, then the now well-known NSA data monitoring efforts should be shared with foreign governments to intercept trade routes, capture poachers, and condemn Asian traders who unscrupulously deal in poached ivory. Those are far more direct and effective ways of affecting illicit Chinese trade and saving elephants’ lives.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">One last thought: Dr. Daniel Stiles, a world renowned expert on African elephants and a prominent member of conservation organization, has recently concluded that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/13/us-ivory-crush-sends-the-wrong-message-to-elephant-poachers"><span class="s2">the initiatives under consideration in the US will dramatically increase elephant poaching instead of decreasing it</span></a>. Crushing the domestic market in the US will make the legal supply of ivory disappear. As ivory becomes rarer, prices will increase, giving poachers an even greater incentive to kill elephants for their valuable tusks. It would be catastrophic to destroy the lives of innocent artisans, ruin the finances of legitimate businesses, deprive people of lifelong collections, and in the process reward poachers for slaughtering elephants.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Very truly yours,</span></div>
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-45772188002319407172013-12-20T00:09:00.001-08:002013-12-20T00:09:28.284-08:00I need your help<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">As some of you know, and more of you need to know, the Presidential Advisory Committee is planning to recommend a total ban on the sale of ALL ivory in the United States. Not a ban on new import, but a ban on ALL IVORY (this includes mammoth, boar, warthog, etc) in ALL FORMS (jewelry, knives, pistol grips, musical instruments, etc).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">I know some of you are thinking "yay for banning ivory" thinking that it will help save elephants. That's really not the case. Banning ivory that was harvested generations ago, ivory that comes from extinct animals, and ivory from non-threatened sources like warthogs, does NOTHING to help elephant. Enforcing this will take funds away from stopping the killing of elephants AT THE SOURCE IN AFRICA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">On top of that, it'll put people like me out of business. Do you like what I do? So do I, I'd hate to lose the ability to do what I do.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">PLEASE join me in emailing ACWT@FWS.GOV before December 28th when they file their report. I'll copy a letter below here that has been posted on the engraving forum. If nothing else, copy and paste it, sign your name on it, and sent it off. Or modify it to suit you. Or write your own. But please I am asking for your help. I love elephants, but banning the sale of pre-existing ivory is NOT helping them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">-----</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Dear Advisory Committee,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">I stand against a total ban of all ivory sales in the US.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">As called for in the Presidential Executive Order I ask that the recommendations continue to allow for "legal and legitimate commerce”.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">The ivory market in the US is stable and /or declining, and the seizure records indicate that a high proportion of the seizures made were personal effects lacking the correct paperwork, not the “blood tusks “ spoken about in the media. The Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) analysis indicated that the amount of ivory (by weight) seized annually has not increased in recent years. WE are not the consumers of the poached ivory. Therefore banning ivory sales within the US will do nothing to save the remaining world population of elephants.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">CITES MIKE report (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) September 2013 report, page 64 analysis states "Africa's elephant populations are managed sustainably" and that in 2013 the quota for permits for legal elephants was 1350 animals. There is legal trade that can be monitored with DNA testing and permitting. Enforcing and policing a ban would use funds that should be used to support the ban on imports already in effect.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">I fully support the CITES rules, closing international borders to elephant ivory trade, a law already in effect that should be fully supported and enforced. I stand against a total ban of all ivory commerce within our United States borders, a decision that would be an enforcement nightmare. Like prohibition it will cause a new wave of illicit commerce where a legitimate one now exists. Museums, antique dealers, collectors, artisans and individual citizens have invested in a legal and valuable material. Sanctioned trade in ivory that is legal (culled and pre-ban) and comes from unthreatened sources (mammoth, boar, warthog, antique and recycled products) can pose no possible threat to elephant herds in the wild.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">I believe our mutual goals are the same and a solution can be reached. Please keep the focus where it belongs. To increase the elephant population the killing must be stopped in Africa and at its borders.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Respectfully Submitted,</span>Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-49839628927574085882013-12-07T22:46:00.002-08:002013-12-07T22:46:53.040-08:00Baby, it's cold outside!Snow is still such a novelty in my life that I think it's incredibly fun and exciting. There are a couple snow days here during the winter. It'll be mud before you know it... so I enjoyed it today, and walked allll the way down the hill to the creek and back up. And holy moly that's a lot harder in snow than it is in normal conditions! ;-) I earned that slice of cake tonight!<br />
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1.25 inches diameterKatherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-10392591842972723192013-08-08T23:13:00.001-07:002013-08-08T23:13:54.014-07:00August 8 work in progressGeez, where does the time go? I was gone for a few days. Life in a suitcase...<br />
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I'm really happy with how this is coming along! I have to finish the sidewalk/steps, put in the tree and shrubbery, and then do a little something with the background. In real life this cottage is surrounded by trees. I am not planning to put all those trees in the background. I LIKE this clean composition, I really don't want to clutter it up with a bunch of stuff behind it. Unless I get to that point and think it needs it... but I don't think that'll happen. That's not the plan. But I'll do a little something to get the border to "pop." Just you wait and see.<br />
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<br />Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-5587793100510964712013-08-01T23:02:00.001-07:002013-08-01T23:02:12.940-07:00sebright chicken scrimshawI did this a thank-you for someone who recently gave me a lot of scrimshaw supplies. He and his wife have a small and much-loved flock of Sebright bantams, and when I was deciding what to do for them I thought "yay finally a chance to scrimshaw some chickens!!!" :-)<br />
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Next on the list is the cottage scrimshaw. This is an illustration of the "Hansel Cottage" in Carmel, CA. This is a custom piece, and it's just over 2 inches in diameter. It'll be in full color. This pic was taken right after I transferred my drawing onto the ivory, so it's a bunch of dots. I've been working on all the outlines so far, and although there is a lot more done than there was when I took this photo, I haven't added any more ink so it doesn't look like much yet. This is an extremely complex image and I need to think very carefully how I'm going to do this...<br />
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<br />Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-66174721345865133902013-07-19T22:36:00.001-07:002013-07-19T22:39:33.344-07:00July 19 work in progressI transferred two images to two pieces of ivory today. They are both projects I "should have finished yesterday" if you know what I mean... clock's a-tickin'. The other, which I will show you later, is larger and EXTREMELY complicated and detailed, so I'm going to try to bust this one out pretty quickly (ha ha, "quickly" being a very relative term when it comes to working on a microscopic level).<br />
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This is going to be a portrait of two Sebright Bantam chickens. And to all my fancier/poultry exhibitor/chicken snob friends, I KNOW you're going to jump all over and say they don't look like good sebrights. I KNOW. They aren't! These are "hatchery grade" birds, and that's deliberate. So don't get all uppity about it. ;-)<br />
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And now featuring engraving and inlay on the bolsters and rivets by one of my absolute favorite people, Michael Dubber! I had to jump up and down and do the happy dance when I saw how COOL this turned out. YOWZA!!! Click on the pics to see these a little bit bigger!<br />
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Happy 10th Birthday to Shylah! My my how the years have flown since I got that scrappy scrawny little horse from Canada. She's really blossomed a lot this last year, and seems to enjoy not only her horsey friends but also her new role as a trail and cow horse. And we've come a long way learning to trust each other. That's a great feeling when it's just me and her by ourselves way out in the boonies.<br />
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Is it REALLY her birthday? Well who knows, but when I got her she had two little cardboard tags taped to her butt with the number "4" on them. She seemed so tiny compared to her "born in early spring" trailer-mates, so I decided June 4 would be her birthday. She's not really all that little any more. Just a smidge under 14.3. She just looks like a waif compared to the chunky fuzzy Gypsy horses she lives around!Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-38003781907228907532013-05-29T22:33:00.002-07:002013-05-29T22:33:40.708-07:00the excitement of roundup season!There are about ten cows that permanently live on the ranch where I live. In the fall, another rancher brings more cows to this land and the surrounding parcels, and a lot more cows live here over winter. They have their babies between January in May. In April the bulls arrive. In May the cows, babies, and bulls are all hauled to summer pasture at higher elevation, since the grass here dries up. In the fall, they will return.<br />
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I spent the last almost-year looking forward to cattle roundups. My horse Shylah and I tagged along on the very last one of the season shortly after I moved up here last summer. We were only looking for strays, I think we found maybe three cows. Poor Shylah had spent her whole life in the flat land and was totally out of shape for mountain riding, so she didn't hold up to well for a long hard day or riding last year.<br />
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So I worked real hard to get her in shape, especially in the last few months. I rode as much as I could, went up and down as many hills as I could, went out and checked cows a lot, and so on and so forth. We were ready this year!<br />
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And it was so much fun!!! It makes for long tiring days, but I had a blast and Shylah did SO well. She gets pretty worked up when she sees the cows, and the first day she tended to be TOO fast, too pushy, I really had to hold her back a lot. She was much better the second weekend. I helped with sorting too, in the corral, and that horse is definitely NOT a cutting horse! Moving quickly in that situation doesn't seem to come too naturally. ;-)<br />
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Now, amazingly, everything got done in two weekends. I guess it usually takes about four weekends. The weather was great, that definitely helped and allowed us to go out and round up multiple parcels on the same day. I guess we'll go out one more time in a few weeks and look for strays, but other than that it's all done! That's great! And yet, I'd kinda hoped for a few more weekends of that. ;-)<br />
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I took as many pics as I could, but it was hard to have a spare hand for picture-takin' sometimes!<br />
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Waiting for the boss to show up on the first morning... <br />
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This was the first bunch of cows on the first day, which were relatively calm and went right where they were supposed to go. I wish I could show you more actual pics of the roundup action, but it tends to be fast and furious and "two hands on the wheel" so to speak. My pokey slow horse turns into a freight train when the herd gets to runnin'.
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Going out in search of more cows. The bunch we were looking for is a wild bunch. We didn't find them.
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Shylah and Blackie. Shylah really seems drawn to Blackie, she will follow him anywhere, and she really seems to like his rider, Linda. Shylah will sidle up to her any chance she gets for to get her face petted!<br />
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Last part of the day after lunch, had to sort a bunch of "strays" (came over/under/through the fence from the neighbor's place) out of the herd. Having no "cutting" experience at all, I wanted to give it a shot. She did okay. Not great (not quick and responsive enough yet), but okay.
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Waiting for the next one to come down the fence line!
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The second morning began with sorting cows that we caught the previous days. Those cows shall not pass! Okay, they did, a few times, but we're still learning... and those cows were nuts!
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After sorting, out in search of more cows. Where ARE those cows? Most of the time on these roundup rides it's just a nice long trail ride, scouting for cows. And then you find cows. And then the cows start to run. And all hell breaks loose and you have to chase them. And at that point I don't dare try to get my camera out of the case. That day we brought in teh rest of the crazy Limousin cattle on the neighboring parcels. It actually went easier than expected, but still... Because we are all so awesome? ;-)
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Freckles and Spot by the corrals at the end of the day.
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Here comes the big trailer to haul the cows to their summer pastures!
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This is from the second weekend, out gathering a sane bunch of cows on the neighboring parcel. They didn't run like the wild beasts on the previous weekend!<br />
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I walked out to the corrals that night to say goodbye to the cows. I've been out a LOT since these cows arrived in the fall, riding or hiking, and some of these cows have become pretty familiar faces out on the trail and I've given a lot of them silly names. Some may be back next year, but there's no way to predict which will end up on which parcel. Goodbye to Unicorn (on the left) and the Old Cow (on the right). This is surely the Old Cow's last roundup...
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Triple Wide (I learned today that her owners call her Pig Eye!) and her baby.
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year-round residents) are all adequately pregnant. He's just not quite
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So that's it! Another year wrapped up! So much fun!! I can't wait to do it again! :-DKatherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-28152003208394537662013-05-22T22:07:00.000-07:002013-05-22T22:07:03.648-07:00stuff that's in progressColored pencil drawing:<br />
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There are about fifty billion things I need to write about.</div>
Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-11991319991128631222013-05-07T11:09:00.000-07:002013-05-07T11:09:45.877-07:00get 'em while you can!<span class="userContent">"Experiments in Hybridization"<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br />
Between May 10 and June 28 I will be showing work at the "20/30 Show"
(20 art pieces made within 30 days) at The Studio Experience Gallery in
Redding, CA. 3404 Ste. B, Bechelli Lane, Redding, CA. If you've fallen
madly in love with any of them and want to buy a particular one (or
more) you can reserve them by calling the Studio Experience Gallery at
530-226-8301 between the hours of 11am and 4pm Pacific Time, Wednesdays
through Fridays. Tell them the number of the one you want (it's on each
image, it's the "Figure" number). Each drawing is $65 plus sales tax and
whatever they are going to charge to ship them. The work must stay up
through the end of June. You can also wait until after the show and get
them directly from me, but of course the one you really want might sell
in the mean time!</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">The opening reception is Saturday May 11th from 5-8pm at the gallery.</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">At the time of writing this, I'm told that four of them are already sold (I don't know which ones). If you want one, get 'em while you can! :-)</span></span><br />
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-41246790627759675062013-04-30T16:00:00.001-07:002013-04-30T16:02:37.109-07:00April 30 work in progressSlow slow slow toooooo sllllooowwww progress. I should be done or close to done. It's just one of those months.<span style="color: black;">.. I wouldn't normally post this at this weird stage where the undertones are showing but I know the future owner of this piece is very anxious to see it, and I have to leave for a couple days.</span><br />
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-33932751530248357292013-04-29T22:37:00.001-07:002013-04-29T22:37:15.243-07:00upcoming art show!I will post all the artwork here before the show starts, and give you the info regarding how to purchase one if you would like one of my drawings but are unable to visit the gallery.<br />
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-7805115958998236002013-04-18T23:31:00.001-07:002013-04-18T23:31:31.425-07:00April 18 works in progress<div style="text-align: center;">
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Brown Red Japanese Bantams</div>
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colored pencil and graphite on cream Stonehenge paper</div>
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Cape Buffalo
engraving on Winchester Model 70 floorplate</div>
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oval is about 7/8 by 1 inch</div>
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Katherine Plumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15270985693010461806noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13958960.post-25653206678686115202013-04-16T22:43:00.000-07:002013-04-16T22:43:19.807-07:00April 16 works in progressIt's worth noting that on these "WIP" photos I'm usually taking snapshots late at night and I don't bother color-correcting stuff too much, so nobody should get too hung up on whether the colors seems a little "off."<br />
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Brown Red Japanese Bantams</div>
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