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.

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Trucks, Trucks and More Trucks

Little Paul, or LP as he's called by his dad “big” Paul,  is the 3-year-old star of Pembroke Community Media's new show, “Trucks, Trucks, and More Trucks”  filmed Sunday afternoon, April 7, 2013 at JA McCue Well Drilling in Pembroke.  CLICK HERE

LP's mother, Kelli Acevich, said “LP was over the moon with excitement and telling about how he spent the day with the trucks.  He is still talking about the ride on the all-terrain vehicle.  I think that was the highlight of his month.”

She went on to say,   “Sometimes I forget how momentous a simple experience like touching a big vehicle is for a little guy like mine.  What's even better is being able to watch my son's face.  He got a big kick out of seeing himself in the video, and the music was super too.  Thank you!”

The show starts with the unmistakable sound of a truck engine revving, then continues with original music from local premier country western group, “The Bloodhounds.”

“Trucks, Trucks, and More Trucks” is playing in the “Community” category “More Fun Videos Around Town” section at www.pembrokecommunitymedia.com.

Also new this week is a comedic 2 ½ minute introduction to the 1st Church in Pembroke, featuring “Old Rob Roy,” as he calls himself.  CLICK HERE.  Mr. Robert Roy III is a personable WWII fighter pilot and Harvard University graduate who likes ushering at Pembroke Center's congregational church.

“What do you like about me the most” Roy asks as he tells a joke, “my gorgeous face or my beautiful figure?”  Then comes the answer. “I think I like your sense of humor best of all.”

The song playing throughout the piece has a smooth, western theme.  “As I travel on this journey, full of hope and full of yearning” is sung by the choir, and makes one think of cowboys and horses on the range.

See smiles, flowers, the choir, and people being nice to each other in this snippet from an especially up-beat Sunday service.  And if you want Rob Roy's autograph, we have that too on a bulletin signed January 20, 2013.

Still another new addition to pembrokecommunitymedia.com for the months of April and May is a promotional video CLICK HERE for Pembroke Titans Football and Cheer Leading.

It's sign-up time for the fall 2013 season grades 1-8 cheer leading and grades 2-8 football.  Forms and information are just a click away, with 2 phone numbers to call for even more assistance.

Children interested in participating can watch the 58-second video that shows last year's cheer leaders and players out on the field behind Pembroke High School. It was filmed by a Pembroke Community Media volunteer using the camera for the first time, and is in the “Sports” category  “football” section.

The young football players and cheer leaders surely seem to be having a lot of fun, even though it rained during parts of that game against Rockland.

Also playing in the “Football” section is the Mighty Mites Titans vs Bulldogs full game from fall 2012. It is one of the top five most-watched programs on the site.

And in the arts, Pembroke fine artist Paul Crimi has posted a new video CLICK HERE this week in his “Expressions in Painting” section.  He shows ”Birch Trees #7” which is being raffled off. Tickets are $25 each, and available either from him by calling 781-724-3554, or from Joanne at HCP Hair Salon on the south side of Schoosett Street near Route 53 in Pembroke where the painting is displayed on an inside wall.

Crimi tells us that the hair salon is holding an open house June 8, 2013 from 5 to 8pm, and that is when the raffle will end.

“Somebody's going to get a valuable painting for a small amount of money,” Paul said,  “And that person will be very happy.”

The video has classical music playing in the background, and shows the painting close-up as well as from a distance.

“I like and need to have videos made of my work,” Crimi explains.  “Once a painting is sold or leaves me for whatever reason, it's gone forever. The videos of my paintings are all I have left.

“I'm especially grateful to my crew of students volunteering for Pembroke Media who help me with all the filming,” Crimi continues. “I wouldn't have been able to do any shows without them after the selectmen obliterated our station. Good night and God bless.”

Monies raised will be used for a trip to Ethiopia with Crimi's prayer group this fall.

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Pembroke Artist Paul Crimi's Second January Show

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The volunteers at Pembroke Community Media Center gladly present a second January Episode of "Expressions in Painting" filmed January 30th, 2013.  Pembroke High School students earn community service credit hours towards graduation by working crew for Paul. 

The piece from January 15th's episode was finished in the past 2 weeks, and is reintroduced at the evening's start.

 "It really has a nice personality. It has a beautiful, sun-bathed side. And it's got this really nice shadow on the sidewalk. It has a nice quietness about it. I'm very, very pleased with the way this painting came out," Paul tells us.

As he did in the show 2 weeks ago, Paul again displays the floral signature painting for his Cancer Support Community Exhibition from 1-5pm on Feb 10th at 110 Longwater Drive, Norwell, Massachusetts. "Please come, " Paul says, "because we're trying to do something about cancer."

There's a finished birch tree painting, and a panoramic of 'The Spit" at the show's start too.

"I really like the tranquility and the quietness of it,' Paul comments on "The Spit" piece. Every time I paint this, somebody comes in and buys it, which is a great thing because artists need somebody to buy their work."

In this January 30th episode, Paul paints from a still life. One of Paul's viewers, Theresa, wants to know what brushed are used, so Paul obliges.

Paul paints and talks not only about artwork, but about his life.

Did you know he is going to Ethiopia in September 2013?  "There's a bunch of us going from a prayer group in Abington. Then there's a bunch of Irish people coming from Ireland and they're going to meet us in Washington, and we're all going to go. And that ought to be fun."

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GIVE ME THAT ORANGE FLOWER

Paul Crimi starts with a blank black canvas and transforms it into a platform for three dimensional objects.  At least that's how it seems.

In this November 20th session, sunny orange flowers pop out of their bright blue vase into the room.  By the end of the hour,  you'll be tempted to reach out and grab the stems. 

Paul brought three completed paintings that were started on earlier shows then finished in his Rockland,  E.T.Wright Building studio:  a painting of the Florida Keys, one of a forest, and another of a fall scene on the North River in Hanover, Massachusetts by Myettes store on Broadway.

About the forest painting, Paul says, “it's very intriguing and you want to walk through the path.  I like the entrance of it.  The way you feel.  You feel like you're present in this particular painting.”

As for the fall scene, “I put a ton of time into this.  Probably 3 weeks off and on working on it.  I think it came out quite nice. It has a real beautiful quietness, and I love the way the water goes.”

Fun fact.  Paul painted canvasses red for 20 years because the museum school he attended taught that technique.  Then one day he didn't like it anymore, and started painting canvasses black.

So we asked Paul just how does he get from blank canvas to finished picture?  'Well,” he says, “I always say a prayer before I start painting something like this because I figure he's in charge.”  CLICK HERE to watch the video.

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STUDENTS EARN COMMUNITY SERVICE CREDIT HOURS DURING PAUL CRIMI'S PAINTING SHOW

While Famed Fine Artist Paul Crimi was creating a painting in one hour, the high school students working crew were earning community service credit hours towards graduation.  "These guys are great," Mr. Crimi says about his helpers. "Absolutely Great."

Paul begins by showing and telling us about a finished painting called "Flowers on the Sidewalk"  which "has nice depth to it.....and really soft flower colors."  The brickwork is spectacular.

  "The Beach House" painting was made from a photograph taken in Sprucehead, Maine. A field of flowers was added.

An indoor scene of a "really funky house with real quiet rooms," the Olson House, is the subject of the next finished painting.

For the body of this tutorial, Paul sketches a fall landscape from a photograph of the North River on the Hanover/Hanson line by Myette's store. Starting on a medium-size black canvass "helps the colors."  First comes the blue sky, then the black lines.  "I feel like the guy with the magic brush," Paul says.

Pembroke Community Media Center is proud to offer you this show, and happy that high school students are earning their community service credit hours while learning skills this fun and empowering way. There are plenty of good filming and editing opportunities, so contact us today. 

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Nantucket in the Winter Time

Sept. 27, 2012, Pembroke, MA ~ 

This episode of “Expressions in Painting with Paul Crimi” is dedicated to the artist's brother Vincent Crimi who in his 50’s was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.  Vincent just turned 70 and was on his deathbed.   

This show is a tribute to a much-loved family member who "is a great brother and will always be a great brother and will be missed a lot."
Paul starts with a reminder of the meditative quality and strength of birch trees and how reminiscent they are of people.  He continues the show with a photograph of “Nantucket in the Winter Time” that transforms into a beautiful watercolor painting.

Watch as a black canvas becomes aqua water, blue sky and sands of Nantucket.

Listen to the melodic words explain the intricacies of mixing colors and textures to create this beautiful painting.

“That’s what it is all about” Mr Crimi says.   And we agree. 

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Pembroke Community Media Center, Inc. located in Pembroke, MA is now playing:
Paul Crimi's August 14th "Expressions in Paint;"
Portions of June 4th's selectmen's meeting during which public access TV was discussed;
Loretta and Leroy's rendition of  "A Sad and Twisted Tale," edited by Sandy Haggerty of Bryantville;
"The Pulse of Pembroke" episode one with seasoned, long-time resident Louise Tanderes giving us a tour of the Community Center;
"The Quaker Meeting House" tour with historian Libby Bates;
"Laura McCue's Comedy Show;"
The Pembroke 300 Kick-Off Party;
Kyle Harney's portrayal of a prominent Pembroke resident, Robert Barker, in a show Kyle researched and wrote;
The award winning "Juniper Tree" by Neldini Films based here in Pembroke;
The "How Was Your Date?" show also by Dan Nelson and Matt Rindini of Neldini Films.

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