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 Now you
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to Dean read his own poems — a new dimension!
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Dean's New
Poem of the month:
On One Wanting to be the
One
I wanted to be a famous poet, but to be famous,
I had to make the sun, moon and stars famous,
each particular tree, each leaf, each twig famous
(Why not? The setting sun does it?); the smell
of my unwashed sweaty sheets, the imagined
indifference
of the fronts of the backs of heads moving away —
make them all famous; you and your all-to-familiar
needs and frustrations — famous! . . .
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).
Dean's latest
ESSAY:
Opinions of Opinions
Opinions are fun. They give us things to argue about in
bars. (Which team is...? Which player is...? What are women
all about? Men?) They identify us. We wear them like pin-on
name tags. We can be proud of them. Even if we've borrowed
them, once we call them ours, they are a source of pride because
our opinions are the right opinions because they are ours
-- circular logic, but we enjoy traveling in these circles.
We consider our opinions good company.
Except sometimes they're not.
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.
A Doll's Journey
 A
Doll's Journey (revised blank verse poem and story by
Dean Blehert) is now on the web. I have added all of the original
B&W "Doll's Journey Coloring Book" pictures.
I am working on a "colored version" using a new
Wacom(r) Graphire stylus I bought myself for christmas (2003).
Drawings through No. 18 are now in color.
New Art lesson
#39: How to stretch a canvas
Free art lessons
for you to try. These are lessons I compiled over a number
of years of teaching art as "homework" to get students to
apply some of the basics. Try them.
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.
 Pam
Coulter Blehert plein air painting at River Bend Park,Virginia
— February, 2006.
Find me on MySpace
and be my friend!
blehert.com is now hosted by HostExcellence.com
MT
user manual
Oil and Acrylic Painting Workshop
led by Pam Coulter Blehert at the Reston Community Center.
Contact Reston Community Center for details.
Students
note: Essay on the Third
Dimension and Recommended Paint
Supply List
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Third
Saturday, every month, 2-5 PM: The Federal
Poets meet at West End Library in Washington DC to critique.
Bring 15-20 copies of a poem.
Online
Gallery: Try this online
gallery if you like pictures.
Recent and Coming Events
 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.)
July, 2007: "Nascar
Crash" (semi-abstract) on display at the MAX_21 show
at ArtWorks gallery in Reston.
 June,
2007: "Fast
Food" and "Universal
Liquor" were accepted in the ArtReston, 14th Juried
Exhibition on display at the Reston Community Center through
July 2, 2007 and "Small
Boat Dock, Alexandria" is on display as part of the
Paint Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory Art League gallery
space. The June show at the Artworks
Gallery in Reston includes 4 one-foot square paintings
of Reston. I also participated in an outdoor painting event,
June 2, at Riverbend Park, and sold a small oil study of a
boy fishing. (No picture taken, unfortunately.) A painting
of Riverbend is in the show at the visitor's center through
the end of June.
 May,
2007: "Hidden
Hope" sold. "Tamara
and Skye" sold. "Rainy
Day in Herndon" was on display in the Reston Community
Center Student-Teacher show.
April, 2007: I participated
in a show with Max_21 and my first really large (36 x 48)
non-objective painting.
 March,
2007: "Spring House, Nancy's Place" is
accepted in the judied Art League of Alexandria show at the
Torpedo Factory and will be on display during the whole of
March.
February, 2007: I participated
in a show with Max_21 group at ArtWorks in Reston: 21 views
of "how we see ourselves" done on uniform panels
2.5' wide by 5' high. Click
here to see my painting.
January, 2007: I participated
in a community show sponsored by the Arts Council of Fairfax
County at Washington Trade Center and a triptich
(Winter I, II, III) sold. The show remained on view through
March.
 Dec,
2006: The Painting "Early
Spring, River Bend" was accepted in Art League of
Alexandria's monthly show and was sold. I also have several
paintings in the MAX_21 show at Artworks
in Reston.
Nov, 2006: The painting
"Pandora's Box"
was accepted in the Art League of Alexandria's "Political"
theme show, the painting "Hot Jazz" was accepted
into the Small works show, and the painting "Tilt"
is showing in the bin gallery at the same venue through Dec
4, 2006.
 Sept,
2006: The painting "Beauty
Spot, Potomac" was accepted in the Art
League of Alexandria monthly show and was sold within
the first week of the show! It remains on view until end Sept.
The painting Cloudy Day, Riverbend is also accepted in the
"bin gallery".
 July
2006: The painting "Stream with Rapids, Autumn"
was accepted in the Art
League of Alexandria show.
 June,
2006: The painting "Small Boat Dock Alexandria
(study)" Painted in Plein Air during May in Alexandria,
was accepted in the June Art
League of Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory and was
sold.
 The
painting "Early Morning After Rain, River Bend Park"
(shown here) was painted 6/3/06 and sold that day at a "wet
canvas" auction.
Beauty
Spot, Potomac was accepted in the 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
of the League of Reston Artists, June 2006, judged by Jack
Rasmussen, Director of the Art Gallery at the Katzen Arts
Center at American University and won a Third Place Award.
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