Posted in Books I'm Reading, Critique, Fun with Art on Dec 6th, 2008 No Comments »
This first week of December is full to bursting with social engagements. For an artist, who usually spends most of her time alone in the studio, it is a welcome chance to connect with friends and fellow artists. The day after Thanksgiving, we started right in…. cut the Christmas tree & decorated with the kids, [...]
Posted in Fun with Art, Recently Viewed Art, Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
You can see more of Karen’s work at www.karenappleton.blogspot.com Thanks to Pia at blog.piajanebijkerk.com/WordPress/ for turning me on to her work! We (my family & I) were given the gift of good news today. The first screening of the lymph nodes from my mom’s lumpectomy showed no signs of cancer! The doctor thought the margins [...]
Posted in Art Classes, Fun with Art, My Work on Display on Nov 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Whew! I started a post last week about my workshop in Bend at the Arts Station… Somehow amidst the updating of my server I think it vanished into the ether. Weird, as I saw it up for a while, but now it has disappeared! So…. here we go again! I had a great time! Thank [...]
Posted in Fun with Art, My Work on Display, Recently Viewed Art on Oct 10th, 2008 6 Comments »
I spent the better part of the day today at Mary Lou Zeek’s Gallery in Salem. My part of Edward Hopper’s “Cape Cod Morning” is now complete. It was nice to see a few patrons come by and to enjoy the company of the great gallery girls It was a good day to focus on art [...]
Posted in Fun with Art, My Work on Display, Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
Heidi, originally uploaded by Artistruth. I am getting geared up for my next project for the Mary Lou Zeek gallery… another 100 Artists show. This time we are altering books. My book, shown above, is Heidi! I have been mulling over what I’d like to do… so many ideas and only one project. I like [...]
Posted in Fun with Art, My Work on Display, Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
I delivered a painting to Mary Lou Zeek’s gallery in Salem today in preparation for the fourth “Face the Public” event coming up next month. Twelve Oregon artists will each spend a day in the gallery painting a section of a canvas to recreate Edward Hopper’s famous “Cape Cod Morning” painting. The finished piece will [...]
Posted in Books I'm Reading, Critique, Fun with Art, Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
Ok.. picking up where I left off last night. Several people have asked what happened with the Salem Hospital commission. Well, the bad news is they chose another artist, Alison O’Donoghue . When I read all those descriptors, though, hers was the work I thought of. The good news is, they paid me to do the [...]
Posted in Art Classes, Fun with Art on Aug 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I had to take a break to enjoy the garden today, it was so fragrant! This enormous lily is under my magnolia tree, which is a great scent alone, but combined with these two sweet beauties, it is almost overpowering! I wanted to include the pink asiatic in the shot, because it shows how huge [...]
Posted in Critique, Fun with Art on Jul 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Here is the gang in Kathy’s studio, just getting ready to critique my painting. They look friendly, don’t they? Just kidding… they had some great suggestions for my paintings. Thanks guys! If I could figure out how to post more than one image in each post, I’d post them here… but alas, I am still [...]
Posted in Critique, Fun with Art, Recently Viewed Art on Jul 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
John Originally uploaded by Artistruth We had a nice surprise at critique last night! John had brought his pipes (since we were way out in the country and wouldn’t be disturbing anyone). He played a couple of great songs. One thing I learned is that bagpipe music isn’t written… it’s all memorized! This critique group [...]
