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Last week I was in Seattle for a couple of days and while there I took in the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). An interesting and varied collection, I wanted to share some of what I
It’s Easter weekend and so I have an excuse to present you with a strange yet elegant and beautiful version of the deposition of Christ from the cross. The Bible gave Renaissance artists ample stories to illustrate
In 2015, I challenged myself to do a sketch-a-day for the entire year. That was some project I’ll tell you! There were good days and some not so good days (in fact some desperate days!). I wrote a blog
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A pastel painting for the tropics!
Before Mum and Dad left Salt Spring on their journey home to Cayman (via my sister’s in Ontario), I managed to do a couple of pastels for my gallery there. This pastel was inspired by a photo I took while in Grand Cayman about 20 years ago. It’s one I’ve wanted to paint for a
Is it a Painting or a Drawing? The debate over the status of pastels
Recently on the Pastel Society of America (PSA) Facebook page, a conversation was initiated by someone who had had work rejected from an exhibit because as a pastel, it was considered a drawing by the organizers and the show only accepted paintings. You can imagine the furor that started in this pastel group! So is
My 100th post!! – A new pastel painting video and a plea for Kurelek
Celebrating 100 blog posts!! Wow – 100 posts. I can hardly believe it! I think that’s something worth celebrating. I remembered when I first started blogging I wasn’t sure what in the world I was going to write about. It was all such a new idea to me. Well, within a few months, I got
Self-portrait: 30 sketches in 30 days
At the end of September, inspired by artist Bill Creevy who was doing his own 30-day challenges, I challenged myself to do 30 self-portrait sketches in 30 days. And amazingly (to myself anyway), I did it! Some days were easy and some days not so easy. Some days I made the time to do the
John Singer Sargent – his Rise, Fall, and Rise
After writing my blog on John Singer Sargent’s paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago (click here to read that blog), I realized that although I was familiar with many of Sargent’s paintings, I knew little about his life. I was also intrigued by the furor around his most well-known portrait, “Portrait of Madame X.”
Plein air painting – from outside into the studio
In the warmer days of summer, I had the pleasure of going out on a couple of plein air painting excursions with my Mum and Dad on Salt Spring Island. One of those days we drove up Duke’s Road, a place we’d never explored before. (To read all about another excursion click here.) When you
Jan Van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait” – a close look
I was looking through a book, Art Revolution, by Lisa Cyr. In it, I discovered an artwork by Cynthia von Buhler that incorporated a figure that looked oh so familiar and I finally figured it out. It appears to have been taken from a famous painting by Jan Van Eyck (before c. 1390 – before
