Category: My life

Daily paintings from La Manzanilla, Mexico – numero uno!

  Saludos from La Manzanilla!   As delightful as it is here – sunny and warm, lovely people, beautiful long beach with hardly anyone on it – I have committed to pastel/draw/paint every day. I am determined to continue exploring new directions in my work as well as creating daily paintings. I have a box

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Kathy Venter – contemporary figurative sculptor

Hola!!! I am writing you in the evening from La Manzanilla, Mexico. I am sitting outside a small internet place near where I stay listening to the roar of crickets, local music blaring, saying buenas noches to passersby as I write. Wonderful (and distracting!)!   Before I left home,  I was trying to decide who

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Plein air painting in Grand Cayman…done from inside out :-)

  So in all the family excitement during my 10-day visit to Cayman, it wasn’t until the last day that I found the opportunity to sit and pastel. Of course there was the frantic decision – what to paint? what to paint? – but I had been eyeing the beauty of some seagrape trunks through

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Pastels for Kennedy Gallery, Grand Cayman

  This is going to be a quickie. Truly. I’m with immediate family in Grand Cayman having such fun so squeezing in blog time is tricky. But I have a couple of my pastels to show you.   I brought them down for Kennedy Gallery as they had sold some pieces recently (always great to

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