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Site of Pam Coulter Blehert (artist) and Dean Blehert (poet)
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Dear Reader - essays by Dean
Deanotations - poem-a-day by Dean
Dear Artist - about art and artists by Pam
pamphlets - comments on life by Pam

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.

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

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.


Get Deanotations 110 in PDF format.


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.


 

Online Gallery: Try this online gallery if you like pictures.

Recent and Coming Events
Pam Coulter Blehert

Swan Dark WaterJan, 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...

Waterfall, Harpers FerryJanuary, 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.

Universal LiquorAugust, 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.

Great Falls 2006August, 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!

Cloudy Day RiverbendJuly, 2008: Cloudy Day, Riverbend was accepted for display in the monthly show at the Art League of Alexandria.

 

 

Spring House Nancy's PlaceJune, 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.)

Spring House Nancy's PlaceApril, 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.)

Last updated: January 24, 2010

 

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