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Just Published!!!
We have just published the first 20 issues of Deanotations
as volume one of a six volume set. Costs $20 from publisher:
LULU.Com
or you can request it from us (same price but we will
cover the shipping FREE!!!) Contact
us.
 2010
Calendar: My 2010
calendar with 12 of my landscapes is now available.
It's a beautiful art calendar. $20 + shipping. Go to
lulu.com to order. This would be a great business
Xmas gift and I can even make a personalized version
by changing the front picture. Interested? Contact
me.
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Dean's
New Poem of the month:
Skinny-Dipping
56 years old and well past the age
where a man becomes more ashamed
to take off his shirt than his pants,
at a St. Mary's college poetry weekend,
talking late with the kids (I say kids, but
I can no longer tell 21 from 29),
I am invited by a petite anarchic blonde
to go skinny-dipping with "everyone," --
none of my middle-aged cohorts in view.
Wish my wife were with me.
I've never gone skinny-dipping (or
in my case fatty-dipping) before.
Will I embarrass myself? . . .
read the whole poem on the Featured
poem page
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Blank Pages,
Dean's new e-book, is now available for reading on
the web or for printing as an e-book
(PDF).
A Doll's Journey
 The
Doll's Journey (a blank verse poem and story by Dean Blehert)
is now available as a "print-on-demand"
coloring book (40 Pages from lulu.com) and a colored work-in-progress,
using a Wacom Stylus, is on the web. Drawings through No. 19
(of 32 drawings) are in color.
Now you can listen
to Dean read his own poems — a new dimension!
Dean's latest ESSAY:
A Theory of Murder
Murder is too easy. Where's the game? You dent a body slightly
-- if it were a car, it would be easily patched up -- and
it's dead. The guy is gone.
In the arena of creating effects, wowing people, getting
people to say "Man, you're too much!" or "Ummm,
you're a great lover" or "Did you really just make
that up?!" or "Oooh! Ahhhh! Don't stop!" or
"ENCORE! ENCORE!" or "And the WINNER is..."
-- in that arena, creating an effect upon someone by killing
him or on others by killing their intimates is akin to aceing
a challenging test by looking up the answers in the back of
the book....
Read more...
Dean's Poem-a-day
for 2005 is on the web. (Prior years are also available.)
Poem a day for 2006 will soon be posted. After that, he began
to blog them. (See Deanotations
for short poems and Dear
Reader for longer poems and essays.
A new addition (more poems) to the collection of poetry on
Mental Health for Dummies
(or How Psychiatry is Destructive Only When Used As Directed)
by Dean Blehert is included on the Lots
of Poetry link.
Words & Pictures now hosts the
Federal Poet Website. The Federal Poets meet monthly,
usually on the 3rd Saturday at 2 pm at the West End Library
in Washington DC.
Students
note: Essay on the Third
Dimension and Recommended Paint
Supply List
July-August: Small
classes in my studio. Interested in future classes? contact
me.
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Online
Gallery: Try this online
gallery if you like pictures.
Recent and Coming Events
Pam Coulter Blehert
 Jan, 2010: Swan, Dark Water (acrylic) sold from the Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory.
Portrait Commission. I am working on a portrait commission. Watch this space for more news...
 January, 2010: "Harpers Ferry Waterfall" was sold from the "bin gallery" at the Art League Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria. The laugh's on me: I can't remember which oil sketch this was, although I think this is the right one.
 October,
2009: I have completed a series
of 10 small paintings for a local realtor. Click
here for a slide show.
I have also completed several 16 x
20 paintings you might enjoy. Here
they are!
Sold "Ancient
Door, New Cat II" (commission).
September, 2009: Potomac
above Great Falls VA was accepted in the Art League September
show at the Torpedo Factory.
 August,
2009: Two paintings, Brash
and Universal
Liquor, accepted in the League of Reston Artists annual
show at U.S. Geological Survey, National Center in Reston.
Universal Liquor was awarded Honorable
Mention. The Judge was well-known local watercolorist
and teacher Gwen
Bragg.
June, 2009: I taught
a group oil and acrylic class at the Reston
Community Center, Wednesday evenings, 7-10.
April, 2009: Elan
Magazine has published an article about my art. One of
my paintings
is on the front cover of the April edition.
 February,
2009: I have donated three paintings for the annual
Patron's
Show, a fundraiser held by The Art League in Alexandria.
The paintings are: Vista
from San Juan Island (which was awarded an Honorable Mention),
Beach
Umbrella, and Rock
Formation, River Bend Park. Tickets are $175 and attendees
get their selection of a painting based on random drawing.
 December,
2008: 2 small giftable pieces (of Seashells)
SOLD at the Reston
Community Center Lake Anne and I have replaced them with
a lovely and humorous little painting called "Fast
Food" and 6 paintings of Riverbend park are on display
at Riverbend
Visitor Center. In addition, Nancy's
Place, Reflection, was selected for inclusion in the monthly
juried Art League of Alexandria show.
November, 2008: My "Self-Portrait"
(5 feet tall!) was accepted in the Art
League of Alexandria monthly "large works" show.
October, 2008: Lynn
and Station Street and Autumn
Lane near Great Falls and Massachussets
House sold on eBay!
October 2008: Pam and
Dean both participated in a show of Paintings and Poems (sometimes
referred to as ekphrastic
art) co-hosted by the League of Reston Artists and Poets Anonymous
at the University of Phoenix in Reston. (I will post the paintings
and poems when I get a photo of the missing "Sister St.
Thomas Acquinas McGraw.")
 Aug
30-Sept 1 2008: I was one of 10 participants selected
to participate in an on-site painting competition and completed
3 paintings in 3 days. These were exhibited at the newly-opened
ArtSpace gallery in Herndon during September. Zefferelli's
Restaurant (pictured) was one.
 August,
2008: "Splash" and "Great Falls
- 2006" are on display as part of the annual League of
Reston Artists' show at the U.S. Geological Center in Reston
VA. "Great
Falls" won First Place. "Splash"
will win in the future!
 July,
2008: Cloudy Day, Riverbend was accepted for display
in the monthly show at the Art League of Alexandria.
 June,
2008: Spring
House, Nancy's Place was accepted in the juried League
of Reston Artists' show at Reston Community Center and received
an "Equal Merit" award. (An Equal Merit award replaces
the "First, Second and Third Place" awards.)
 April,
2008: Nancy's
Place, Reflection (oil, 16 x 12) was painted on site at
an estate in Loudoun County during a plein air weekend with
local artist and teacher Ed Cooper. It reflects my fascination
with water in all its forms. This received an Honorable Mention
in the League of Reston Artists April 2008 show at the Reston
Community Center.
Dec, 2007: Les Saintes
Harbor IV, a small watercolor, sold from the Bin Gallery at
the Torpedo Factory Art League gallery.
Nov, 2007: "MacArthur
& Dana (oil study)" was accepted in the Art League
monthly show and sold. Also sold "Wild Ducks at Meadowlark
Gardens" and gifted "High
Winds".
Sept, 2007:
I finished a restoration
of a painting for one of my students, a portrait of her mother
done when her mother was young. I also did a painting of Masks
for the current MAX_21 show. And I completed an interpretation
of Riverbend
using acrylic and palette knife.
July 2007—One-Person
Show: Retrospective of my work featuring "Water
Forms" at the Reston Community Center at Lake Anne.
This has paintings from as far back as 1967 on the theme of
water in its many forms. (I have posted the complete show
as a virtual tour at the above link.)
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