My oil paints are in my studio, my acrylics are in a barn in Vermont and I, now with the attention span of a fruit fly, am sequestered at home with gouache, watercolors, pastels, crayons, inks and, thankfully, paper. It’s been awhile since I’ve used these, and I am expecting a certain amount of painContinue reading “Art in the Time of Corona: week 1”
Author Archives: Carol
Demo – drawing on Dura Lar
Photos courtesy of Kai Alexis Smith, Architecture and Design Librarian at MIT Libraries
Drawing in the Galleries, Wednesdays at the MFA, Boston.
Terrific program at the MFA on Wednesday evenings – 3 hours (6-9pm) but drop in and leave as works for you) of drawing with a model in the galleries.
Beginning: cyclamen
Scaling up to a 24×24 canvas. I want a bit more freedom & broad strokes that can come with this scale. I will be limited to just daytime painting to add a bit of backlight.
Just needs a frame: another one leaves the nest
On the Road to Carrizozo: painted from my memories of driving in the desert at dawn in New Mexico. I’m indecisive about the frame and have ordered another frame to try – a floater frame that will be a warm rosy brown. Once framed, it will be ready to send to its new home inContinue reading “Just needs a frame: another one leaves the nest”
On the easel . . .
Lots of “painting it on” and “scraping it off” lately, with an orange bug brought back from Alamogordo NM.
Hangings are happening
My painting, Hot Day Cool Brook was selected for Concord Art’s MJ1 show, juried by Emily Eveleth and Penn Young. January 16—February 9, 2020. Opening reception: January 16, 6-8PM. There will be wonderful art to see – you should go! And The Walk is at Spaulding Rehab’s (through the Artists Group of Charlestown) Finding YourContinue reading “Hangings are happening”
Back to the studio – work in progress
This painting has issues but I’ve got time. Uniquely for me, I’m working from memory (an absolutely gorgeous sunrise drive across the desert seared into my neurons) and a few very poor photos.
Carol Schweigert 