Still River Studios

Title: “Touring the Tate Modern”
Dimensions: 6″x6″
Medium: Oil

This begins a series of paintings I will complete on my recent trip to London and Paris. We visited several museums and of course did a lot of walking. The very first museum we visited was the Tate Modern. It was spectacular! A huge power plant that was converted to a modern art museum. The ceilings were to the sky (just about) and gigantic rooms filled with contemporary from today and the not so distant past. The art represented international artists from about 1900. This painting is of a woman briskly walking through the museum to get to another location. In front of the window is an Alberto Giacometti sculpture. What intereseted me about this painting are the backlight subjects providing an outline of two very different figures that happen to be in congruence with each other.

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Title: “Portrait of a Young Bull”
Dimensions: 7″x5″
Medium: Oil

Before I get into my series of London and Paris, I wanted to paint something from home. This was a young bull in a field not to far from where I live. His horns are little nibs just out of our view, but when he bent his head down to graze you could see them. Many of the farms in our area have given way to new neighborhoods. This little guy was awesome! He sometimes cocked his head and seemed to look at me as strangely as I was looking at him. His face was precious - long eyelashes, dark eyes, a pink nose and a coat that that looked soft and warm.

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It’s been a while since I wrote, mostly because I didn’t have a computer readily available to me. We went on a long overdue vacation and spent a week in London and another week in Paris. It’s right before their heavy tourist season, and we had some pretty awesome weather so nothing to complain about. We loved it over there and figured out we mostly do city vacations because we love art and love visiting museums. We went to as many as we could fit in, about a dozen or so, and then a few galleries. What a wonderful time! I’m getting back into painting now and have been recharged with new energy.

I did a lot of people watching and took many reference pictures. I brought a sketch book and various writing/drawing implements to make notes of things. Since I’ve been home I rearranged my studio so I could paint egg tempera and oil paints simultaneously. I’ll let you know how it goes! Basically I have a kitchen table that was to wide so I turned it length wise and set half up for oil paints and the other half up for egg tempera. Organization is key.

I’ll be back soon.