Stay open, be unprepared, let yourself make mistakes, I told myself.
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Keeping a beginner’s mind
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Collecting a “Red Barn in Autumn”
Soon, all that will be left to me of the farmhouse and my life there will be my memories of it.
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Gallery Exhibition: Going Up in Style
Painting, I've found is quite a different thing to attempt... and I never seem to approach it the same way twice.
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Old Barns, New Vision: On Learning to See
When you really look at something, finally come to see it clearly and completely... you will see the flaws alongside the beauty.
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Back in the Studio: Always a Work in Progress
And even though I have more experience now, the rules still apply. But its becoming more and more tempting to want to bend them, break them, or even move beyond them.
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THROUGH MY LENS: gallery girl
On my way home from the Bedlam Farm Open House last Saturday, I stopped in at the opening reception for the Landscapes for Landsake charity art show, where proceeds from the sale of artwork go …
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LARAC Calls for art in 2017, I answer
Gone are the days of toting a portfolio of work around to galleries. I didn't even have to make a CD. In this new Internet age, many things have become so much easier.
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Painting class: Traveling in new directions
...painting seems to me no different than writing or any other art: after you learn some basic rules, everyone goes about it their own way eventually.
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A NEW CANVAS: old barns, late summer
I started this painting today, recreating an old farmstead I photographed last September in Penn Yan, New York. I loved filling in the bright sky, but especially starting the green grass brimming with sunshine. And …
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On Painting: Traveling Without Moving
A couple weeks ago I returned to my Thursday afternoon painting class, an outlet I always realize I miss very much after my teacher, Joan, closes our sessions down for the summer and during the holiday …
