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How did I end up with more than fifty tubes of paint in my studio?

Carol L. DouglasJul 20, 20073 min read
OK, it’s not that I’m a packrat exactly, but how long do you suppose this tube of paint has been kicking around? (For the record, there are also 58 tubes of watercolors…) I have the terrible habit of buying paints without checking my inventory first. There are paints from my teen years, squatters left by …
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Rip-rap on the Lake Ontario Shore

Carol L. DouglasJul 16, 20071 min read
I learned two important things today. When electronics (like your work camera) go missing, it’s wisest to start by looking in your teen’s bedroom; It costs $.25 per picture to upload photos from your cell phone. This is my way of apologizing for not having “in progress” shots of this little sketch of rip-rap on …
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One more painting I want you to look at

Carol L. DouglasJul 15, 20071 min read
Here is another picture that has been on my mind recently. It’s Sir Stanley Spencer’s The Resurrection, Cookham (1924-27, Tate Britain). http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=13675&tabview=image Sir Stanley Spencer is really three painters wrapped into one—a religious with a gentle, sweet view of “the resurrection and the life,” a superlative landscape painter, and a sexually tortured, brutally honest figure …
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Talking about paintings in class

Carol L. DouglasJul 15, 20072 min read
We are currently analyzing paintings in class. This week, Gwendolyn brought Franz Marc’s “The Yellow Cow,” 1911, Guggenheim—NYC. Franz Marc, Yellow Cow (Gelbe Kuh), 1911. Oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY.(http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_98_5.html) Franz Marc is hard for me to peg. On the one hand his painting clearly evokes the anxiety of Europe at …
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From 99 Âş F to 65 Âş in two days

Carol L. DouglasJul 14, 20073 min read
At Rochester, the shore of Lake Ontario is flat and covered with fine cobblestones. The shoreline is very even. It is hard to break up the strong horizontal and diagonal lines, except by putting in the dark overhanging trees. What the lake lacks in architecture it makes up for with incredible light and color. On …