Comments on: Deep Thought Thursday: FIRE!

By: My Art Featured on the ArtBizBlog « Marilyn Fenn Studio

My Art Featured on the ArtBizBlog « Marilyn Fenn Studio — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:02:06 +0000

[...] I’m please to announce that Alyson Stanfield, art marketing consultant, workshop leader, and author of “I’d Rather Be in the Studio!” has selected one of my tornado paintings for her Deep Thought Thursday blog. See my art, read her post and add your comment at ArtBizBlog. [...]

By: Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:18:41 +0000

I, too, immediately thought about the art I own from other artists. One is a large oil painting – my first real work of art purchased from another artist. The other would be a collage I made of old pictures of my deceased grandmother.

Thanks for a thought-provoking question. I believe I would also think to grab family photos – I hope there would be enough time. And, I learned a lot about what to think about when disaster strikes. Don’t keep all your eggs (art) in one basket; have a hard drive backup on your computer and grab it; know you cannot return to the building once the fire department gets there; and finally, there is nothing more important thank just getting out alive!

By: Tesia Blackburn

Tesia Blackburn — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:49:08 +0000

My partner, my senior mom, my dog and me and out the door we’d go. Art is about living, not dying for it. There isn’t a single piece I’ve done that I would risk my life (or any family member for). Besides, maybe I’ll come back and make great stuff with soot, ashed and water soaked canvases and call it my “Fire” series!

By: Cath

Cath — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:40:59 +0000

I’d grab a watercolour postcard a friend made that says we’re kindred spirits and an ACEO by American artist Martha Marshall – I have four though, and am not sure how I’d choose between them. My own work I can make more of.

By: Fiona Purdy

Fiona Purdy — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:57:21 +0000

I would take the art quilts my mother painstakingly created by hand for me. They are priceless to me.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:49:57 +0000

Ha, love this post and all the answers. Gotta agree with Joann Wells on this one! I can make more art, to heck with my stuff. I would grab Lynd Ward’s “God’s Man a Novel in Woodcuts” a stunning first edition book that really belongs to my partner. And I would just make a wild grab for a stack of antique Japanese prints that reside in a flat file. We have so much amazing art by other people, my own stuff would be last on the list.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:44:18 +0000

This is an interesting question, and the answer would be different on an given day. Today, I think I would take my two pieces that began as collages using different skyline photographs of the city of Atlanta to organize my page. The collage material is primarily from a Arctic Cruise I took a couple of years ago and things that relate to Atlanta (like coca-cola logos, text from Gone with the Wind) and I then painted over it. But, my dogs and my husband would of course come first. And, my husband is a photographer, so he would probably grab the Edward Weston print!

By: Debra Cortese

Debra Cortese — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:20:08 +0000

After I’m sure my daughter and the pets are safe, I’ll grab my external drive (since most of my work is photo/digital based) and then, I can hear my Orchid Angel and Spirit Guides paintings. These are two highly charged energy works and they are very personal. Yes, I can create something similar again, and yes, the guides have most likely evolved more than a bit since I first painted these, however, these were my first visual interpretations of the energies that I see and feel when I’m paying attention to my true feelings.
Great question Alyson. Got me to tune in instantly!

By: Sheree Rensel

Sheree Rensel — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:15:22 +0000

This is such an interesting question because I live in hurricane country. I have prepped for disasters quite a few times. I can honestly say, I have never counted my art into the mix of what I wanted to save. Instead, I pick things like my vintage ’40s chenille peacock bedspread or my 106 year old quilt made during a 1903 NH quilting bee. Also, I would want to save a beautiful Mexican retabloesque artwork I own or this Catholic “last rites” alter I have hanging on the wall. These are things I cherish. It isn’t that I value my own art less. I just know from experience, I can always make more art. I can’t recreate the things I mentioned as my treasures.
Sheree Rensel
wizzlewolf.com

By: Daniel Sroka

Daniel Sroka — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:38:28 +0000

Easy. I’d grab the backup external harddrive that has all my photographs on it. Of course, I already have a second harddrive in the fire safe, so I’d probably just hightail it out of here.