Tag Archives: oil painting

How to use 2 mirrors for self portraits

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Carol

Take 2 12 inch mirrors, duct tape them together on one side and prop up the mirrors so they reflect each other and you’ll see how you actually look to the rest of the world instead of the more familiar … Continue reading →

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My Debut on the Small Screen

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Carol

Boston Interior Designer Jeanne Finnerty of Finnerty Design selected one of my floral paintings for a cameo appearance above the commode in a house featured on HGTV “A Renovation Lesson” HHRenovation, season 14, episode 12. Find it on a TV … Continue reading →

Image | Posted on February 6, 2019 by Carol | Tagged art, Boston, buy art, Massachusetts, oil painting, painting, Still Life | Leave a comment

Time for focus, so I’m off to Mass Art and Catherine Kehoe’s The Head Examined.

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Carol

The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.— Voltaire (1694 – 1778) And so we eliminate details, aiming just for the essentials. Andrea and Paul were terrific models and I went 3 hours without checking my phone. I … Continue reading →

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To paraphrase the golfers, a bad day of painting beats a good day of everything else

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Carol

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I’m back in the Southwest! Painting, making cookies, watching Jeopardy with my mom, and generally being a nuisance. It’s been cooler and more intermittently cloudy than I expected. Sante Fe was spectacularly snow covered. Tomorrow to Las Cruces to visit … Continue reading →