[Aquanet] Cia's memorial painting on the aquanet site

[miriam]

Cia loved to paint flowers. (did she paint anything else?)
Roses and hydrangeas. She was generous with sharing her photo references of her garden and her advice.  

Best advice from her was to tape my paintings down with regular packing tape not the expensive artist tape....and that cerulean blue fixes everything. (it's true!)


I will miss her generous and embracing spirit.

 
  




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From: Raymond Blum <raymond at paidtech.com>
To: Aquanet The_digital_Brain <aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 10:39:00 PM
Subject: [Aquanet] Cia's memorial painting on the aquanet site

As far as a painting of hers to be displayed - an excellent idea.  I will leave it to the members of the list to select one though some self-organizing democratic process here on the list.


On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Raymond Blum wrote:

> I can start
>  For the life of me I cannot remember the name of it, but in old days, there were usenet newsgroups - like Google or Yahoo groups of sorts - and on one of these several of us were talking about watercolors and one of us suggested that we correspond - we started out just sending email to each other, CCing the entire set of people, perhaps 12 or so.  The person who suggested that we correspond was one Cia Price and she was the only one "bold" enough to suggest it.  I loved being in touch with other watercolorists who had so much more experience than I did.  Cia was, along with Julie Eastman, one of the more experienced people in that early group and was always encouraging.  Back then the state of the art was such that none of us had web pages or could even send images as attachments - it was mostly text and dialog via email.
> 
> I asked about creating a mailing list and Cia jumped on the idea and did nothing but encourage me.  That was the start of aquanet.
> 
> Cia dropped out, for a few years as I recall, as she told me that she felt that the group had gained momentum and her own energies would be better spent elsewhere.  I think that she actually remained subscribed the entire time, but as a lurker (silent member) of the list.  She reemerged after a while and became more active and enthusiastic than ever.
> 
> I remember distinctly when I had not painted for a few years and was somewhat discouraged, Cia egged me on gently to see the lapse as just that: a lull not an end to my artwork.  That made a real difference as I saw then that I could resume painting whenever I was ready, it was not something that I had to see myself as having abandoned or "failed at."  There's that enthusiasm of hers at work!  :)
> 
> I will miss her and am glad to have known her. She touched our lives.
> 
> ---Raymond
> 
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Patrick Davis wrote:
> 
>> ClamAV 0.95.1
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, gang.
>> 
>> I did not know Cia very well, even electronically, and I did not know she was one of the instigators of this excellent group.
>> 
>> I'd like to make a couple of suggestions. First, could one of her paintings be put up permanently in memoriam as was done for Ed West? Second, would some of you who've been around from the start share some of your memories of Cia- which would allow us Newbies to get to know her better?
>> 
>> Just a thought,
>> pat
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