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…
Tara Choate 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…
Bean goose and winter deer
On Saturday I drove down to Lincoln City to see my mom. We met up at Nestucca Wildlife Refuge to join the Audubon Society of Lincoln City in their monthly…
The community of warm fuzzy friends
Today I traveled up to Tacoma, Washington, for the Madrona Fiber Arts with the Traveling Ewe. This may seem like an unusual way to spend a precious vacation day, but…