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  • #22 Project: Art Gallery Show Winter 2012

    #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!

    patleary

    December 12, 2012
    Art Shows
    Amato’s, art show, beach sand fences, Maine,, Project: Art,, Scarborough Beach
  • #21 Post Modernism – Project: Art Style

    #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…

    patleary

    November 28, 2012
    Art Shows, mixed media
    arts, Ewa Stryjnik, Post Modernism, Project: Art,
  • #20 Willard Beach; Still 2004

    #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…

    patleary

    November 25, 2012
    Acrylics
    acrylic painting, Jack Riddle, Maine Geological Survey, Maine,, South Portland, South Portland Historical Society, Willard Beach, Willard Haven Inn
  • 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.…

    patleary

    August 13, 2012
    Art History
    Andre Breton, Apollinaire, Camilio Cela, Cocteau, Eluard, Gavilla de Fabulas sin Amor, Lavandiere, Max Jacob
  • #19 It’s Square Foot Show Time again!

    #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…

    patleary

    August 2, 2012
    Art Shows
    Libretto, Square Foot Show
  • 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…

    patleary

    June 13, 2012
    Art History
    La fillette aux pieds nus, Musee Picasso, Patrick O’Brian, Phillipe Sollers, Picasso
  • # 18 Go Acrylics!!

    # 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. …

    patleary

    May 27, 2012
    Acrylics, Art classes
    acrylic paints, AGO,, art gallery of ontario, Ewa Stryjik, OCAD, painting with acrylics, Peggy’s Cove, Project: Art,
  • # 17 2011 in review

    # 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…

    patleary

    December 31, 2011
    Art Shows
    Blog stats after a year, Where my blog followers come from
  • #16 Project: Art 2011 & the blog … one year later

    #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…

    patleary

    December 11, 2011
    Art Shows
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Caran d’ache, Ewa Stryjnik, GAC 100, photo transfers, Project: Art,
  • #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…

    patleary

    October 23, 2011
    Acrylics
    How to make a photo Transfer, Matte Photo Paper, Photo Transfer
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