The Cold Wind and Wild Seas of Maine

Ah! After many months away, I'm back! Here's some more work from my week in  Maine. I had a wonderful time getting to know some amazing women. Here's the finale of Sue's front porch.

 I started this little one of the fields...

We then went to Ogunquit for the day! It's just beautiful there, but quiet cold for this Florida gal. We positioned ourselves on a cliff and painted the ocean and town below.

I loved painting the rocks...

And drawing them in pastel...

And starting a painting and then collaging over it to create mail art! 

And learning how to crack open a lobster! Thanks Christine!

(Okay, honestly that wasn't really fun. It's a lot of work.)

And then we found calmer water at the Museum. 

 And FREEZING wind at the Lighthouse AND I still ended up getting sunburnt!

Sue's brother graciously gave us the backyard for the day and I painted this little scene.

 And we had MORE lobster!

And then I headed out to New York!

Plein Air in Wells, Maine

I've joined the wonderful artist Jaime Howard in Wells, Maine. Today, we painted in Sue's beautiful front yard.

In honor of the Forth of July.

The Home of the Truffula Trees

My entire life, I was under the impression that the Renaissance Greats painted in a garden where the trees where trimmed into neat little puffs

Like Disney....

It turns out they grow that way naturally

Montecastello

In the summer of 2013, I went to Italy with Jaime Howard's plein air workshop in Montecastello.

 I've never been surrounded by more beauty.

 

I painted some lovely little watercolors in the park

In process

Mini sketch

Breakfast sketch

A Brief Summery of Events Since 2010

After four short years, I'm returning to this blog.

Many things have happened:

Most importantly,  

I graduated!

Photo by Johanna

I participated in an AMAZING internship with Don Martin and the ladies of Escuela Superior de Arte del Principado de Asturias. We restored the ceiling of Ponce De Leon Dinning Hall.

 My work: During and After

Then

I

Got a Job!

Worked.

When back to school.

Taught some more.

 

And concluded that the above is a sacred recipe.

 

 I was accepted into a show in New York! Completely and totally thrilled, excited, and then.... quite nervous.

The show was at the Cealum Gallery in Chelsea. It's a gallery that focuses on up and coming artists. I found out about the show through my professor Sara Pedigo (sarapedigo.com) "Spring Break" was a joint show between several school including Flagler College, University of Mass, and a couple of Japanese universities.

Cealum Gallery asked me to create more work for the exhibition.  I focused on individual lamps that were smaller in scale.

Images of new work that were created, photographed, and submitted:

How it was displayed on opening night:

Disappointment.

BFA Show: Placeless Events Are An Impossiblility, Everything That Happens Must Happen Somewhere

The pictures have arrived.... and where a bit of a disappointment; however, they are much better than the photos I posted earlier.

In The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram quotes anthropologist Keith Basso:

"Placeless events are an impossibility, everything that happens must happen somewhere."