Feb. 14, 2008
Valentine's Day seems like a propitious day to start a new painting blog. This will be a place to post my paintings and random ravings. Of course, my "daily paintings" are actually weekenders. It's hard to do one painting a day when you have to work ten hours a day (sometimes more) four days a week. That still leaves me with a three-day weekend to work on art.
This is a small pastel I did this past weekend, dreaming about spring...last year my friend Linda and I went for a hike along the Potomac River in early spring, and found masses of wild blue phlox and Virginia bluebells growing along the path by the river at Carderock. It was such a lovely scene, it instantly cheered me to revisit my photos and create this painting. Anything to get over the winter blahs!
Dreaming of Spring is about 9" high by 11-1/2" wide, on Wallis paper (a sanded paper made specially for pastels), and it's at Gallery 1683 in Annapolis at the moment. Please stop by if you are interested, for more information visit the gallery's website by clicking on the link in the Links column.
2 comments:
A Born Nature Painter
What's hard to detect in this week's image is the first thing apparent when the work is actually in your hands -- the sinewy vitality of a born nature painter's vision of that organic strength which underwrites the seasonal frailty haunting all plein air painting.
Elena, I love your artist's blog. Love your passion & your work.
I treasure the memory of our dumpster diving in Provence for boxes & pieces of cardboard. I treasure the grit & ingenuity of my artist friends who do not stand on ceremony in the face of inspiration & need.
Angel trumpets are favorites--more later in kind.
Love loves to love love (james joyce) Shirley True
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