Artist’s Process – Fixing the unfixable?
I’ve been working on a painting which I have carried in my mind for many moons. It’s a view of the marsh at high-tide at Kiawah, S.C. I’ve painted the marshes before, mostly in an abstracted landscape form; but this time, I wanted to try realism, to a point. I decided to use a 24″x48″ [...]
What happens to the 20″x20″ canvas…
Life has a glorious way of evolving while we spend time wondering, questioning, deciding and planning. We may think we are in control. We may think we know where we are going. We may even think we’re clairvoyant and know just what, where and when we will be doing x, y and z. But, if [...]
One of life’s little lessons
This week, I had the opportunity to take a painting workshop from a world renowned pastel/oil painter, Urania Christy Tarbet from California. Click to Google her, if you are interested. The decision to attend was last minute as we’re in Naples, Fl. and I wasn’t planning to take art classes; however, when I saw the [...]
20″x20″ Doesn’t work for me
Today, I returned to my easel; lo and behold, that 20″ x 20″ canvas was still there. I had hoped that someone might have tip-toed in (during the night or this morning while I was out at yoga) and whisked it away! No such luck; the challenge still stood. “I’ll give it another try,” I [...]
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