Sharing my art with Tremont St passers-by in the display window at The South End Branch of the BPL. Thanks to the Marleen, Reinhold and Duncan for the opportunity and set-up assistance.
Installation at the South End BPL
Beginnings again
Exercises or Exorcises? Did I mention a productive 3+ months?
WOW! I’m a bit amazed – I knew it but there’s nothing like a Catherine Kehoe class to ramp up exploration and rethinking the work habits. This semester? how little do you need to make a head? The vertical image has all my exercises (plus drawings) – each piece presenting a different challenge: B&W, a variety of limited palettes, limited shapes, limited strokes, only knife, color mixing charts, different drawing approaches, and no drawing on the collages (! making art without a net!) Giving up control really can be a good thing.
2 evenings in contrast: sketchy, sketchy and snip, snip
The MFA’s Wednesday evening Drawing in the Galleries has been a wonderful discovery, only pencils allowed, and followed that up with a Thursday evening at Catherine Kehoe’s Collage Factory at Mass Art. Feeling productive!
And now complete . . .
So much spring – sunshine and some warmth (finally), the magnolias are magnificent and the forsythia have popped! This is 20×16 inches, oil on canvas.
And on the easel now –
Off to Vermont for the weekend and for fresh forsythia.
An evening at the MFA
The MFA has a Drawing in the Galleries program every Wednesday evening. Had a great time there. Sorry – dreadful photos.
Head Homework -drawings in charcoal
Again, a couple of charcoal heads from a historical painting: a self-portrait by the Polish painter Anna Bilinska-Bogdanovich (1857-1893) I admire the fearless directness of her self-portrait. This artist died of a heart condition at 36. She was best known for her portraits.
Carol Schweigert 