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Site of Pam Coulter Blehert (artist) and Dean Blehert (poet)

Now you can listen to Dean read his own poems — a new dimension!

Dean's New Poem of the month:

"Tonight on FAMILY FOOD...!"

Once born to a family — a real family,
one richly larded with guilt, disapproval
and the strained, yearning worship of a you
someone once thought you might be or become —

once born to such a family, food will always be
family, not your mother's head on a platter with
your father's head in her mouth, nothing quite
so crude — your mother wouldn't want to be remembered
with food in an open mouth, and besides, how would she know
where your father's head had been? . . .

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).


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.


Get Deanotations 109 in PDF format.


New Art lesson #40: Green and Landscape Painting

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!


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


Visit our BLOGS
 

Dear Reader - essays by Dean
Deanotations - poem-a-day by Dean
Dear Artist - about art and artists by Pam
pam-phlets - comments on life by Pam
Waterbug - a dialog
Gypsymoth - comments on life and blogs by Pam
Active and Contemplative Life - former artist's blog, now archived.


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.


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.

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

Recent and Coming Events

Great Falls 2006August, 2008: "Splash" and "Great Falls - 2006" are on display as part of hte annual League of Reston Artists' show at the U.S. Geological Center in Reston VA. "Great Falls" won First Place.

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.)

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".

Stream in Autumn MartiniqueJuly 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.

 

 

 

Last updated: August 29, 2008

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