Sunday, September 22, 2013

Pembroke Media Crew films another “Expressions in Painting” show with Paul Crimi

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Fine Artist Paul Crimi turned a blank canvas into an outdoor scene in less than an hour during episode 16 in this recent series of "how to" videos called "Expressions in Painting."

Crew included Pembroke Community Middle School students Jessica Fano and Laura McCue on studio cameras one and two, and Pembroke Media's own director, Cathie Briggette on studio camera three. Each operator wore headphones and took directions for the entire hour from the director in the sound room.

Laura McCue, age 12, gave Crimi the 5-4-3-2-1 finger countdown at the beginning. She also held up the 30, 15, 3, and one-minute cards letting Crimi know how much longer until his time was up.

Jessica Fano's camera was angled to get close-up shots of both the painting and the brush while Crimi applied colors.

It was both Briggette's and Fano's first time using big cameras, and they did a wonderful job.

After 60 minutes of filming, everyone heard "It's a wrap," and knew it was safe to talk and make noise.

Crimi began the show with three finished paintings of bottles from other episodes.  "I like the personalities they have," Crimi said.  "They are starting to have their own kind of feeling."

He plans to make 25 or 30 similar works and have a series.

For this episode, Crimi created a Fall scene from his imagination. "I have all the colors, so let's just start," he said after squeezing two shades of green and blue from tubes into a Styrofoam dinner tray. "Then I'll sketch it out a little bit. I'll lay it out so we get some ideas."

Crimi continued and described the half-done painting. "It still has it's own personality and has a way of revealing itself.

This painting is going to look more impressionistic that realistic. I love impressionistic anyways. I call myself a contemporary impressionist."

Then Crimi advised the viewer that "You have to be patient. Just take your time and keep putting paint on the canvas.

If you just keep putting the paint on the canvas, eventually you're going to get to where you want to go."

He gave lots of instruction and uplifting advice.

"Painting is something you feel as well as see. After all these years I tell people that painting is an expression of your soul and how you feel about it. Especially when you are painting from your imagination and you have nothing to look at.

 "All you have to do is do it. Don't be too critical of yourself if you're painting. Just keep painting. I tell people that the worst thing you can do if you hate the painting is start all over again by painting the canvas black and begin again. I have a bunch of paintings when I first started that I must have painted 10 or 12 paintings on the same canvas. Those people who bought those have no clue that there are that many paintings underneath those canvases."

Crimi's phone number is 781-871-5333. He loves to hear from viewers, and wants you to know that most of his works are available for private acquisition, maybe even the actual painting from this show.



Sunday, September 15, 2013

Titans vs Knights, High School Football September 12, 2013


Published on Sep 14, 2013


Watch the Game HERE.  

Pembroke High School's Titans football team opened 2013 with a home game loss against Stoughton's Black Knights yesterday afternoon.
Pembroke was cursed from the beginning with the official timer malfunctioning and passes thrown to players who misunderstood their role. Nothing seemed to go right.

For Stoughton it was well worth the trip on two uncomfortably crammed yellow buses. They arrived 2:35pm at the front door with 4 coolers and a first aid box, then proceeded to claim the field with a 34-6 win, their second this season.

Their first victory was 28-0 against Marshfield just 2 weeks earlier.

Pembroke's 2nd home game is scheduled against North Easton's Oliver Ames Friday, September 20th, at 4pm, but there are rumors that the date may change.

It will be the 3rd game for Oliver Ames.