Play Ball, Drozda 2008 8×8 inches Acrylic on woodIt’s been a week ‘gone to the dogs’ from meeting Minnie, the rescue Dane in the last post, to having a lot of ball time with my Jack Russell, Valentine. She got me inspired to create this little piece on an . . . → Read More: Play Ball
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Last evening I attended the annual Poet’s Pot Luck at Dr. Robert Christin’s home. Dr. Christin is my memoir writing teacher, editor of my book and an all around magnificent being. For 10 years he has hosted a monthly poet’s forum attended by a dynamic, bawdy and highly talented group. Several years ago . . . → Read More: Follow Your Moon Each days projects happen simultaneously …so while the younger artists are creating birds the older are painting using a style of layering and carving that I demonstrate…the piece on the right can be followed though its three stages…nature is the theme. . . . → Read More: Gifted and Talented Kids They’re calling it a tropical storm. The sky is darkening instead of lighting up and the trees are beginning to dance in large circular patterns high high overhead. There will be no computer use the remainder of the day and my hope and prayer is that the car can be loaded with 70 . . . → Read More: Here comes Hanna ‘Fishin’ is the last piece in the series titled ‘Bird Watching’ and it measures about 4 by 6 feet. An unstretched canvas tapestry. I traditionally begin a piece by applying large abstract shapes and then layering in on top of them allowing the building of the piece to take place spontaneously and intuitively. . . . → Read More: A Mild Obsession The Painting titled ‘One Hundred Steps Along the Lynnhaven River’ will be installed in the library at Kingston Elementary on Monday. It felt great to bring her home for the weekend, let her rest a bit and then with some additional time in the quiet of the studio to come to a point . . . → Read More: Something Even More Wonderful We’re at the mid point of the week long residency and the canvas has been trimmed to the actual size of 52.5 by 93 inches. Excitement is growing and clearly the students, from K-5, view this experience as performance art….and it is. Simply witnessing an artist walking on a canvas as its being . . . → Read More: Something Wonderful Day 3 My first day of posting (November 2) over at Art Calendar’s Artscuttlebutt.com I received a contact from an instant ‘old friend’ … http://orionwhitedog.blogspot.com/ who so sweetly reached out to say that she remembers me from my gallery owning days. I’ve posted an image ‘Temple Garden’ that would have been in my gallery’s front . . . → Read More: It’s Such a Small World |
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