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Neko-nabe, or fat cat in a dish, 8X6 oil on canvas An ellipse is a plane curve with two foci which is symmetrical on both the vertical and positive axes, and intersects with these axes perpendicularly. I recently heard a student tell another one, âShe means not a racetrack and not a football.â Works for …
Girl falls into fountain while texting, 6X8″, oil on canvas And the steps to do it, in about an hour: I start with either a watercolor pencil drawing. Easily erasable with a wet paper towel, allows me to fiddle endlessly with composition. Then I block in colors and values, very roughly. Then these shapes are …
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Here is my set-up along the shingle. Well, dang me, I managed to delete my own painting from Rye from my camera. (Thatâs what I get for photo-editing when overtired.) Hopefully, the Rye Record will have a copy of it. However, my experience at Rye was (as it seems to be every year) wonderful. I …
A Pool With A View (Cunningham Rd) by Bruce Bundock 32″ x 20″, Acrylic Today Iâd like to write about an artist who also did the Rye Painters on Location this weekend: Bruce Bundock. It takes an extraordinary mind to see the beauty of Tyvek, T11 siding and an above-ground pool set serenely in Eden. …
The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow (1567) Pieter Bruegel the ElderOil on wood panel, dimensions not availableOskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland This Nativity by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the second picture I am considering with my pastor friend John Nicholson at The Shepherd’s Staff. Johnâs from Alabama, where today they expect a high …
My friend Paul Abspoel (here) asked me five questions to be answered on this blog. I apologize for the time itâs taken, but here are the questions and the answers: Please comment: âGod is an Artist, but his art is not very accessibleâ âAccessibleâ art has a message we easily grasp. Our response to Creation …
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Ingres,_Napoleon_on_his_Imperial_throne.jpg My husband and I saw the show âCitizens and Kingsâ at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Three months later, the painting which sticks in my memory is Ingresâ Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne (1806). Most paintings are better seen in life, and this is no exception. The marble ball on the …
A water gap is a place where a river cuts a notch sideways through a mountain range. Geologists tell us this indicates a river which is older than the mountains it flows through. Pennsylvania is rich in these water gaps, and one of the most well-known is the Delaware Water Gap on the Delaware River …
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 …
Note: I first posted this in April but managed to lose all the illustrations. Embarrassing for someone who prides herself on her computer literacy. I recently realized I was overworking the thing, and ought to just follow the software instead of trying to bend it to my will. During Wednesday’s class I demonstrated a method …
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