Violin Scroll IV

Violin Scroll IV • this painting is sold

The Red Violin

The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as 'The Red Violin' for its rich red colour. At the film's beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violin's history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history is told in five locations around the world: Cremona, Italy; Vienna; Oxford; Shanghai; and Montreal. To its owners, the violin causes anger, betrayal, love, and sacrifice. In each setting the dialogue is spoken in the appropriate language. Also, a variation of the movie's signature violin solo is played at least once in the period it is played, with the exception of Cremona, where the solo is being hummed by Anna herself. Throughout the movie, the solos are played by noted violinist Joshua Bell.

The film was inspired by one of Stradivarius's violins, the Red Mendelssohn (1720), which is currently played by Elizabeth Pitcairn, whose grandfather purchased it for her 16th birthday for $1.7 million at auction at Christie's London. She is one of the few soloists who performs the Red Violin Chaconne composed for the film by John Corigliano. The notion that the violin is red because it is painted with the blood of the maker's wife, who died during childbirth, is a creation of the filmmaker and is unsubstantiated. It is called "The Red Mendelssohn" because of a unique red stripe on its top right side, but how the stripe came about is unknown.


The Red Violin painting by Ann Elizabeth Schlegel • this painting was featured at Symphony Hall where Elizabeth Pitcairn played her Red Violin and performed the Red Violin Chaconne composed for the film by John Corigliano.

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Fender Bass

Fender Bass • this painting is sold

The Fender Precision Bass (sometimes shortened to the "P-Bass") is an electric bass guitar, and was the first widely-available model of the instrument. It was designed by Leo Fender and brought to market in 1951.

The original Precision Bass of 1951 was essentially a bass counterpart to the six-string Telecaster and shared several of its design features--the main difference being its then-radical double cutaway body. In 1953 the Precision was restyled with the edges contoured for comfort and in 1957 the original single-coil pickup was replaced with a new split-coil pickup with staggered polepieces, connected in a humbucking mode.

This is a painting of my friend Fred's Fender Precision Bass.

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Marigolds

Marigolds

A feast of flowers down the lane
enjoying sunlight, drinking rain
Do any of these seem to be
A reflection of the traits in me

The Daisies bend with wind's delight
Simple, playful petals white
Sunny, happy trading stories
With Daffodils and Morning Glories.

The roses lift their regal bloom
And scent the air with sweet perfume
The Zinnias and Forget-me-nots
Are cozy in their garden pots

But one little flower in the garden bed
Lies understated and instead
of being dainty - it's sure and bold
The resilient little Marigold

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Lime Wedge

Lime Wedge

There once were some wedges of lime
Some time passed and then they had slime
The fridge on the blink
they started to stink
Margaritas were less than sublime ...

nonsense poetry by Ann Elizabeth Schlegel

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Red Apple 7

Red Apple 7

The Song of Wandering Aengus (abridged)

Though I am old with wandering
through hollow lads and hilly lands.
I will find out where she has gone,
and kiss her lips and take her hands;
and walk among long dappled grass,
and pluck till time and times are done
the silver apples of the moon,
the golden apples of the sun.

by William Butler Yeats

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Lime Wedges II

Lime Wedges II

Canada's # 1 cocktail is the Bloody Caesar. The drink was created in 1969 by a bartender, Walter Salin Chell, to celebrate the opening of a new restaurant in Calgary. He took his inspiration from the well-known Bloody Mary, replaced the tomato juice with Mott's Clamato Juice and added a celery stalk. Chell's masterpiece became a Canadian phenomenon. Each year about 250 million Bloody Caesars are served. Since for each cocktail about 1,5 oz (4,5 cl) vodka is needed, this amounts to over 10 million litres of vodka.

But wait ... what about Clamato Juice? Yes, not less than 40 million litres of this stuff goes into Canadian Bloody Caesars each year, which amounts to about 70%-80% of the total production. Except for a few pockets elsewhere, nobody in the world has even heard of Clamato Juice. Clamato Juice is a blend of tomatoes and clams, invented by an American called Duffy Mott in 1962. Other companies produce a tomato-clam beverage also, but Mott's registered the name. As a result, it dominates the market. Hardly anyone drinks Clamato Juice "neat". What doesn't go into Bloody Caesars is mostly used to mix with beer, a specialty called Red Eye in Alberta (also known as Red Beer in Mexico, the only other place where people like to mix beer with a tomato-clam beverage).

Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka, 4 - 6 oz clamato juice, 6 drops Worcestershire sauce, 1 dash of Tabasco, celery salt, lemon and lime wedges and celery stalk.
Directions:
Spread plenty of salt and fresh-cracked pepper on a saucer. Run a wedge of lime around the rim of a tall glass, invert the glass onto the saucer and twist to coat the edge with the seasonings. Fill glass with ice-cubes and add Worcestershire sauce, vodka and Clamato juice. Add pepper, Tabasco, lemon and lime wedges.
Stir with celery stalk and garnish with lime wedge.

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Jif Peanut Butter

Jif Peanut Butter • this painting is sold

BUCKEYES

Ingredients:
•1 1/2 cups Jif Creamy Peanut Butter
•1/2 cup butter, softened •1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
•1 (12 oz.) package (2 cups) semi-sweet chocolate chips
•2 tablespoons Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening

Directions:
1.COMBINE peanut butter, butter, vanilla and salt in large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on LOW until blended. Add 2 cups powdered sugar, beating until blended. Beat in additional powdered sugar until mixture, when shaped into a ball, will stay on a toothpick. Shape into 1-inch balls. Refrigerate.

2.PLACE chocolate chips and shortening in microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on MEDIUM for 30 seconds. Stir. Repeat until mixture is smooth. Reheat as needed while coating peanut butter balls.

3.INSERT toothpick in peanut butter ball. Dip 3/4 of ball into chocolate, leaving top uncovered to resemble a buckeye. Remove excess. Place on wax paper-lined tray. Remove toothpick. Smooth over holes. Refrigerate until firm.

Yield: 5 dozen cookies

Jif Peanut Butter

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Lime Wedges

Lime Wedges • this painting is sold

"If life gives you limes, make margaritas."
Jimmy Buffett

Margarita recipe

1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz premium triple sec (preferably Cointreau)
1 oz lime juice

Run the rim of a Margarita glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the chilled Margarita glass, serve and enjoy !

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Fred's Fender Bass • Happy Birthday !

Fred's Fender Bass • Happy Birthday ! • this painting is sold

Hey Fred and Randa -- Thank YOU so much for the wonderful time shared with you ... I couldn't imagine a nicer evening. Dinner at Melt was just great .... the Martini, the shrimp and angel hair pasta, the Shiraz/Cabernet and the Tiramisu ... but especially being with You both !

I am SO lucky to know you and have you as friends ... xoxoxoxo

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Red Onion 3

Red Onion 3 • this painting is sold

"Why is it that the poet tells
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:

The smell of coffee freshly ground;
Or rich plum pudding, holly crowned;
Or onions fried and deeply browned…"

-Christopher Morley, poet

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Red Onion 2

Red Onion 2

“For this is every cook's opinion,
No savoury dish without an onion;
But lest your kissing should be spoiled,
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.”

—Jonathon Swift, Irish satirist

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Red Onion

Red Onion • this painting is sold

Des beaux lieux ou le dieu du vin

Avec l'Amour tient son empire,

Le Temps, qui me prend par la main,

M'avertit que je me retire.

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Tomato 2

Tomato 2

Hmmm .... yes, I've noticed that this tomato looks pretty much like the last tomato painting ... but that is because it's the same tomato. I didn't have a 'model' in my studio yesterday and this little red tomato was still sitting there from a previous day ...

I'll work on something 'non-tomato' tomorrow ...

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Tomato

Tomato

More on the fresh tomatoes that I purchased from the Emmaus St. farmers' market later ...

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