Sometimes my writing is really just about the words, and ideas contribute nothing to the process. Today it would seem I am to be beleaguered by beetling b-e words. Which, having arrived uninvited with their behemoth footprints, their belligerent attitude, and their bellicose voices berating any delicacy of thought, I have organized into the following…
Oops … Sorry. Bad news … the art show scheduled for April 11th has been cancelled. The Farmington Woods Artists will most likely try to re-schedule the show sometime this fall.
Just a quick note to let you all know I will be joining other artists from the Farmington Woods community for a pop-up art show. I shall be there along with fellow artists on Saturday April 11, from Noon until 5:00. I am looking forward to sharing all my new work, as well as smaller…
To ring in the new year, I opened up my studio and began work on a new tesserae piece. I had an older work I could not paint over, as it had oil pastel on the surface and would not allow oil paint to dry or adhere to the canvas. So, I volunteered it…
It is a week until Christmas here in picturesque New England. And it is raining … coming down buckets of cats and dogs. At the same time Old Man Winter is blasting the sodden landscape with fierce winds and erasing the little bit of snow cover we have had for a while. It really is…
Metacognition – Thinking about thinking. I came across the word one day and apparently had way too much time on my hands … or more likely I had a boring to-do list for the day … because once I stopped to think about thinking, I found I had wasted the entire afternoon. In looking up…
Just got an email message through my fine art website, from The Star Seed Council, “Trying urgently to get in touch” with someone called Thelma. As I have never met any Thelma, I was somewhat confused about their reason for contacting me. According to their best sources, I am her last known contact and she…
Blind contour drawing is the practice of putting a drawing utensil to a piece of paper, covering one’s hand with another piece of paper so the hand is no longer visible, and then drawing an object using a single continual line. The method works to illustrate what is important to the eye. It works because…
My apologies for not keeping in touch with you all. A picture being worth a thousand words, I wanted to let you know I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed … hence the drawing, which is quite an accurate description of my current mental state. However, it turns out I couldn’t find myself listed in…
Okay, enough with the cold and wind and rain and sleet and never-ending winter weather. The ap on my phone lies to me every day, and those cheerful weather reporters have become really irritating. Here in New England, our temperature readings may be normal for this time of year, but the wind never lets up.…