Jo M. Orise - Art Update - August - 2018

71st Maine Lobster Festival Open Juried Art Show.

Sponsored by Camden National Bank, Rockland, ME.

Tuesday, July 31 to Friday, August 3, 2018.
Maine Lobster Festival Open Juried Art Show Opens
Friday, August 8, 2018 Winners are contacted.

July 31, I submitted two oil paintings. Keeping my fingers crossed. Have not been rejected yet. :-)

Theme being the lobster festival and the Maine Coast, I decided to submit these two paintings.
I know it is late notice, but as you know I am 'always busy' and me keeping up with me is sometimes hard to do.

Oil, 18x24". "Entering Deep Cove", Maine Coast.

I just love water and reflection

Oil, 24". "Grace Bailey Anchored at Curtis Light"

Oh, my photography skills are not great. The original painting looks brilliant and the colors are fantastic. 

See the artwork at my website: jomorise.com

We sailed the Grace Bailey. This was the view I got when we rowed back to the boat after lunch.

If you have time, come to the Lobster Festival, look up Camden National at 300 Main Street, Rockland—located on the corner of Maine and Park Streets. Parking in the back.

See ya.

Jo

A Cake-Walk With No Shelf To Spare

Sharpened the old hammer and nails and built a bunch of shelves.

We finally moved out of NH.

Our Maine home has huge closets, but shelving is very limited.


Why 24" between closet shelves? At the left, you see big gaps between shelves.


Where there were three, now there are five!













At the right, I widened the single 10" clothes closet shelf and added a second story.

This other closet's bottom shelf is now over 22 inches deep and the top shelf is 12.

Now a stack of clothes won't teeter and fall to the floor. Big improvement!

Next I'll finish a closet started two years ago. It had been a huge, empty closet meant for a washer and dryer. I moved the back wall inward, creating more space in the kitchen located behind the closet. This freed up space allowed me to install a fireproof wall and a kitchen, wood-cook stove directly behind the new, smaller closet.

Next I plan to enlarge the walk-in closet upstairs. Big bedroom and the closet doesn't have enough... you got it... shelves!

You do what you gotta do.

I'm off to make a building materials list.

That Shelter Institute course my son and I took years ago has really paid off more than once.

After building my Post and Beam home in the 90's, this is a cake-walk.

Any projects in your neck of the woods?

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