As usual, I’m not effectively asserting control over my life and did not get to the studio this weekend, but I got an electrician in for badly needed fixes! This has happened in the past month. Work In Progress.
Category Archives: oil painting
1st time out for Plein Air is always . . . an event?
First time out to paint this spring, trying out a newish easel at my favorite empty industrial park – yes, it’s 2020. Was close to finished and the wind blew everything over and smeared the painting. Nowhere to go but up! And good news? I can still zip up my painting jeans.
A virtual exhibit –
EARTH MONTH: FRESHWATER AND OUR WATERSHED April 15 – May 20, 2020 – a virtual exhibit through Concord Umbrella, includes 2 of my plein air pieces painted at Mass Audubon’s Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary. From the website: Water in all its forms inspires wonder: the intricate beauty of a snowflake’s design, the tranquility of a flowing stream, theContinue reading “A virtual exhibit –”
Demo – drawing on Dura Lar
Photos courtesy of Kai Alexis Smith, Architecture and Design Librarian at MIT Libraries
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”
