Author: patleary
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#22 Project: Art Gallery Show Winter 2012
Come to the Gallery Show tomorrow night !!! …… you’ll see this charming 6 x 6 ” acrylic painting offered on the “Sale for Charity Wall” among many, many others! All for a donation of $50.00. Offerings from many of your favorite artists!
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#21 Post Modernism – Project: Art Style
The Fall 2012 session of Project: Art has been an exciting one! Ewa Stryjnik, our director (impressario, teacher, magic wizard!) presented us with an interesting challenge. “Let’s explore Post Modernism!” She went on to explain that she would provide for each class a 4 ft x 4 ft canvas on which we as a group…
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#20 Willard Beach; Still 2004
Almost two years have passed since I started this blog and I am still showing you paintings from 2004; nevertheless, I’m determined to finish this chronology! Still with the very early acrylics … this time featuring Fall at Willard Beach, the local beach where I grew up in South Portland, Maine. As I previously explained…
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Un Painting Picasso #2: The Washerwoman
Recently I received a note on this postcard from a good friend who knows about my devotion to Picasso. When I looked closely at this drawing of 12 squiggles I thought to myself that there is no point even trying to “make art” when Picasso has done it all, and done it all so brilliantly.…
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#19 It’s Square Foot Show Time again!
The Square Foot show, one of Toronto’s favorite art shows is back for its 10th year! This is a traditional August happening now. Hundreds of small paintings, all 12 in x 12 in, are packed in together for a total sensory overload!! People line up on Ossington Street to get into the AWOL Gallery and…
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Un-painting Picasso: La fillette aux pieds nus
This post is the first of a new series examining a work by Pablo Picasso. For more explanation see the introduction in Un-painting Picasso. When Picasso was 10 years old his family moved from Malaga, his birthplace in exotic Andalucia, to LaCoruña in Galicia on the forbidding North West Atlantic coast of Spain north of…
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# 18 Go Acrylics!!
The original impetus for this blog was to review chronologically the growth of my artistic efforts. For those of you who actually read this stuff, other than my family members, you will have noticed that I diverged to the present in the last few posts, and then I didn’t write at all since last December. …
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# 17 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
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#16 Project: Art 2011 & the blog … one year later
The end of the Fall session at Project: Art ends in the “little” exhibition. “Little” meaning all canvases are either 12 x 12 inches or 24 x 24 inches. There is always an energy associated with this show because most people during the summer had been away traveling to new places and then returned armed…
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#15 Something for Noga
Making a Photo Transfer … This picture of my husband’s cousin was taken last fall where she lives in Tel Aviv. Her name is Noga, and she’s lovely, tender and rather ephemeral. Knowing that I’m an artist, she wanted me to take pictures of her and make “something” special. I was pleased that she asked…
she paints; she is a painter 