Delivered
At 11:00 this morning I delivered my paintings to the Clackamas County Development Building and met Sue Allen for the setup of my show. Sue was so wonderful, helping me…
Tara Choate At the 11th hour
I have finished “Shoes & Shadows.” I have ten paintings packed up and ready to go. But UPS has failed me and the last piece won’t go because the “glass”…
About 8/10ths sane
With two days to go until I have to deliver the paintings for my show through Clackamas County Arts Alliance, I can honestly say I am about 8/10ths sane. This…
5 things to catch up on an eventful week
Aside from a variety of interesting painting happenings this last week (supposedly what this website is about…) my life had a variety of non-art but still interesting developments that I…
Weekly painting round up
It’s been an interesting week on the painting front around here. Monday I dropped off two paintings at the Oregon Society of Artists for their Spring Juried show and I…
A weekend… spent
There are some weekends that are so enjoyable you wish you could do over again. And then there are weekends like this. Saturday morning: Golf When my dad died a…
Sometimes you need to start something new
For painting night I just couldn’t face working on one of my projects in progress, so I started two new paintings… Coming Going
The “free” weekend
So, unusually, I had a free weekend. I had nothing scheduled, nothing to go to, nothing committed. For once, I wasn’t behind on some project and most things were in…
Painting nights 5, 6, & 7
Something about this month has gotten away from me and my art posts have been shamefully light. Painting night 5 (Feb 4), I have an excuse: I was sick. Painting…