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.
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.
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.
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 to benefit farmland conservation in New York State. A mix of people had come from […]
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.
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.
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 I love all the shadows, too. It will be fun to do this one, I […]
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 season. I felt the same mix of relief and relaxation spark up as I started […]
LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: on blessings
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” – Camille Pissarro I think, according to his statement, that the painter Camille Pissarro must have felt like a truly blessed human being. His paintings portray common men and women in simple, natural landscapes, doing […]
Digging On the Flower Children: A Bit of Bathroom Time Travel
Inside the only stall of a women’s bathroom at the hospital where I work, a garden of bright pink, flowery faces greets my every visit. On the opposite wall there is a similar bunch looking down, some smiling, some frowning, growing together in their rather strange field over matching pink tile. The bathroom decor is clearly old, […]
