Category: Watercolor
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Canadian Shield Redux
I recently saw this watercolor painting, done many years ago by me, hanging in the bedroom of Jacob and Shawna. I thought to myself that it was a pretty good painting and further thought that I might explore that composition in the media that I use now. So, for the Beaches JazzFest Show at Liz’s…
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Palm Springs Mid-Century Modernism: New Drawings
Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California is a unique opportunity to experience the Mid-Century Architecture, that was inspired by the desert environment, resulting in the style called Desert Modernism. An enviable life-style of simple elegance and informality is provided in these homes with the use of clean lines with unusual angles, glass, natural and manufactured…
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#10 Influence of Paul Signac
In the Tuesday Watercolor Class – Week 6 of the Fall of 2010, Barry Coombs demonstrated his “swatch” method of painting with flat or angled brushes. (You can follow the link to see his method.) With careful observation we were able to model the objects with a build up of small color patches or “swatches”,…
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#6 Art @ the “Christmas Gift Show”
Deck the Halls of Gallery 888 in 2003!!! The Christmas show is truly fun! You usually get invited to participate in this show if you had been a client in the gallery during the year (and, you hadn’t been too difficult as in, “prima donna”). This is the chance to show your work to another…
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#4 The First Show – Part II
The Party!! The Show is hung!! Everything is ready for opening night! Now the fun begins! … I’m extremely happy with the presentation of the paintings. About 70 personal invitations have been sent out along with local advertisements, and at the Joy Bistro every customer has been given a show card with his bill!
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#2 About Gallery 888
In the beginning of this process, I was nervous about putting words to my images, after all I’m a visual person, not a verbal one. Yet, after the first post, I’m feeling what a liberating experience is this blogging thing! It’s rather like going to a psychotherapist: you keep talking and talking while no one…
she paints; she is a painter 