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Now as a senior in college, she is half way through her “ceramics capstone” which will culminate in a museum show next April. She has been focusing on developing two specific types of dishes. The first ones…
I teach an Abstract Art class early Monday mornings for homeschooled high schoolers at the Pathways Cooperative in Newtown, Connecticut, and this week was the end of the semester with a little show (see above).
I have been working on obtaining more textural elements with pastel and in this painting I have hit on the very pulsating, granular texture I was after.
I am a total fan of Tara Will’s abstract landscapes! There is lots of overlap in how we approach our plein air work, although she does more of it more formally
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I do think you can get from these abstract expressionistic works my general mental state, and see how I was feeling, so expressionism is not without a subtle content of its own.
Every year the Connecticut Pastel Society hosts a national show titled Renaissance in Pastel. It is a juried show, and is tough to get in.
Sometimes the way is steep and daunting. Often here are big obstacles in the way. This painting is about surmounting. We can find ways around, and even if our course if zig zagged, we can overcome, get above and beyond and see a better view.
Here are two new autumnal landscapes in pastel that were completed just before my show.
People came from every department of my life: art people, church people, homeschooling people, book club people, students of mine, collectors of my art, and blog readers!
Here are two examples of classic abstraction– abstractions (instead of impressions) of representational things that are in my current one woman show in Southington.
We went together to my one woman show in the gallery in Southington during the mobbed 50th Annual Apple Festival, which is why I chose to have my show there during this time.
Steaming Hot is one of my new abstract conceptualist paintings that is featured in my Degrees of Anstraction One Woman Show this month.
I took this three day plein air workshop taught by Lyn Asselta. It was sponsored by the Connecticut Pastel Society…
Announcing my huge one woman show displaying 83 paintings for the month of October in Southington, Connecticut!
I had a great time last Saturday going into New York City with a friend to see the Enduring Brilliance Show of the Pastel Society of America, where we also went to their materials fair.
