The Panic Zone
Tara Choate I think I have officially entered the panic stage of this experiment. Several things have happened in the last week. I took half the paintings to my critique group. They…
Painting
meraki
Thank you to Ruth Armitage who used this as a blog post title. I’ve had it written down ever since! meraki meraki Meraki is a Greek word that describes doing…
rhopography
rhopography, n.: “Chiefly in painting: a depiction of subject matter considered insignificant or trivial, as still life, the domestic interior, animals, etc.” I have been wanting to use that word-of-the-day…
Deadline? What deadline?
For those of you who are counting (not that I’m among them…) I have ten (10) weeks until I need to be ready for my show at the Salem Art…
Gotta catch up…
Hello all! I’m alive! And back to blogging! At least, that’s my story. First of all, thank you everyone for your lovely can kind words about my last post. In…
Ruth Ellen Hoag Workshop (the 2nd): Resolution? What resolution
As recently as a few months ago, I promised that there would be no more workshops for a couple of years so I could work on “my own voice.” I…
Around the Bend
My apologies for the “radio silence”. I truly intended to post the whale watching pictures the next day, but there are SO many that editing got me really bogged down.…
Suspending secret
Artists have a secret. Well, maybe it’s not a secret, but it definitely something that non-artists might be surprised about. We have a lot of art. And that’s not including…
esquisse
esquisse a first usually rough sketch (as of a picture or model of a statue) Some days, it just doesn’t come together. You do the work, you make the marks,…