Category acrylic painting
Art of Social Isolation
It is hard to believe it has been 10 months of social isolation. At the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns, I thought I should take the few weeks we might have and do a few meaningful things. Apparently, according to the New York Times article below, several people thought similarly. “They had big plans for […]
Plein Air Pandemic Paint Out 2020
I am delighted to be an artist in the Plein Air Pandemic Paint Out 2020. The event is a creative adaptation of what previously had been the Willamette Lavender Festival Plein Air Paint Out which had to be canceled due to Covid-19. In July 2019, I visited the display of artwork from the Lavender Festival […]
Painting Florida’s Palm Trees
Each week or so, I try to pick a theme for my painting. These past couple of weeks, I have been looking at Florida’s palm trees. I had a couple of cigar box panels made from Honduran and Dominican Republic cedar. Light. Rather pretty. So I prepped the panels and then painted palm trees on […]
Painting Cats
Painting with acrylics and developing an approach to different subjects has been one way to stay actively learning while spending time in social isolation. While I have painted with watercolors for two years, acrylic paint behaves so very differently. And painting with the palette knife requires the development of a certain dexterity. Subject-wise, I’ve […]
Hiking, Painting, Plein Air
Recently, the Gainesville Fine Arts Association call for artwork for an “Earth” theme encouraged me to paint three inspirational mountain views with acrylics and two using a palette knife. Mt. Hood view from Palmer Glacier I admired and painted the view of Mt. Hood both from downtown Portland and from lavender fields during the Willamette […]
Artist-in-Residence: Painting and social distancing
This week I was scheduled to be one of the invited artists for the Santa Fe Springs Plein Air Paintout. Like so many other events, the Paintout was canceled. And so I have decided that I am not just social distancing, as has been ordered by the Governor of Florida, but I am now an […]
