Wildflowers Along the Road, acrylic on canvas
“Wildflowers Along the Road“, acrylic on canvas, 8″x10”.
Reference Photo by Suzanne McMinn, http://www.chickensintheroad.com
This is a demonstration painting for an upcoming retreat that I will be teaching in West Virginia that’s theme centers around wildflowers.
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Completed Pet Portrait
Reference photo
Last week I posted about working still as a Daily Painter and showed you a couple of paintings that I was working on. (See that here.) Here is the completed pet portrait that I was working on in that post. It’s all framed and ready for pick-up Saturday and it will be headed to its home in Memphis, Tennessee!
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One of the great things about painting is that you can capture subjects that are meaningful to you. Jean, a Wednesday evening student, recently completed this landscape painting. It is a scene of a Ranger Station (in the foreground) in a town in Africa that she and her family visited last year. They visited places that her family is from and that were meaningful to her family. Since then the volcano that is seen in the distance behind the station in her painting erupted and the building as well as the village was razed. This painting is all the more special now. Great job Jean!
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Steerage, Alfred Stieflitz
Last night at Samuel’s Public Library in Front Royal I attended the first of several lectures on American Modernism by Ben Glenn II, an art historian and writer. This is a four-part series and last night he discussed 1900-1917 and spoke about many artists of that time period including John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.
We spent time looking at many pieces of art of that time period and he discussed the importance of Alfred Stieglitz and the gallery (291) that he helped establish. It’s a fascinating time. Read more about Stieglitz here.
The next lecture is Tuesday, March 17th at 6:30. Check out the series here.
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Pierre Bonnard, “Woman and Dog at Table”, oil on cardboard, 1908
Yesterday I posted that we visited The Barnes Foundation on Sunday and each time I go I discover something new. There is SO MUCH to see that I shouldn’t be surprised. This time I saw this sweet little painting by Pierre Bonnard (French painter 1867-1947) that I love. It is called “Woman and Dog at Table” and was painted in oil on cardboard in 1908.
Is it any surprise that I like it? See more here.
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One of the most fascinating art museums anywhere is The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. You MUST go see it. We took a group there yesterday and I think everyone was amazed by the sheer magnitude of Dr. Barnes collection.
Photo from WSJ, May 23,2012 Michael Moran/Otto
Read more about the Barnes here and here.
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We had seven terrific painters at the 1st Saturday Paint Party yesterday and we painted tea bags!
Didn’t they create beautiful paintings?
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An idea for an upcoming Retreat painting that is just sketched in
A Pet Portrait commission in progress
An art class demo that needs just a little more work
I get questions all the time about “daily painting”. The most often asked is “Do you paint every day?” And the answer is “almost”. When I first joined the daily painting movement I did paint every day. And I completed a different small painting everyday….for a long time. I did this for about 4 years. Then I started working on larger paintings and while I painted every day I didn’t complete one each day.
But then I started offering other types of classes besides painting so it required me to create in other formats (like crocheting, multi-media, etc.) to prepare for classes so now my answer is that I create something everyday. It may not always be a painting like it was in the beginning but I do something creative each and every day.
Right now I have a couple of paintings that I am working on that still need a little work to be finished. Here are a couple. You will hopefully see the finished paintings soon.
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The kids got to choose from a couple of subjects this week in class. They did great! Flamingos and a Duck!!!
Kids Painting Class is every Wednesday at 4:15.
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I had fun looking at some older paintings. Here’s one for a Throwback Thursday. This weather is going to drive us to drinking these! This painting originally posted in 2010.
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The Studio 