Yummy peaches are the stars in this simple still life arrangement.
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Student Jonah asked if I could do a painting demonstration based on a photo of his artichokes. Sure! Another new adventure : )
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Notes from my fifth Savor Summer class at Minnetonka Center for the Arts.
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Sometimes when teaching, things don’t go as planned. Painting peonies proved to be one of those times.
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Cipe Pineles. I don’t know if this is true. But I did find this statement online when I went down the rabbit hole searching info on Cipe. She did hire Warhol, Ben Shahn and other artists to illustrate articles in the magazines she art directed. I can’t believe I didn’t know about her until Wendy Macnaughton, Maria Popova, Debbie Millman, and Sarah Rich joined forces to get a book of Cipe’s illustrated recipes published in 2017.
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So interesting! To be able to spend time with Mary Jo learning her process of creating her STILL compositions.
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Fall. The colors. The boggy, foggy atmosphere. I never tire of the inspiration of the changing seasons up here in the North. Just a mile or so from my house; the huge Theodore Wirth Park with it’s 3700 year old quaking bog…
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I love these colors.
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Color! Thoughts about working with complementary colors.
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I did spend some time with chickens.
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Stunning images to look at and to feel…Margaret Nazon’s brilliant depictions of stars in deep space, rendered with beads.
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Beautiful, encaustic paintings from Minnesota artist Julie Snidle. Now showing at Kolman & Pryor Gallery.
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Contemplating the colors of my winter wonderland.
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