the idea: while my students are busy being impressionists, make a quick version of Renoir’s Dance at Bougival When I sat down to teach my last after school class for the year in Cambridge, I thought that I would participate along with my students. I was teaching about canvas (it originally came from the sails of …
the idea: make paintings using squeeze bottles and gravity I actually can’t take credit for this idea, it was thought of by someone else in the education department at the MFA, but seeing as I’ve already spent two full days teaching it and have two more to go I thought that I would include it. As …
the idea: combine my doodle designs with my abstract paintings I’ve been a bit blocked lately when it comes to my oil paintings. I’ve gone into the studio and looked around but haven’t been able to make myself actually do anything. And yet my creative energy still needs to go somewhere. I’ve been writing a lot, …
the idea: make a portrait of yourself making something I have always had this love of artists who make paintings of themselves/others painting or what in the art history world we would say, paintings of artists at work. One of my favorites, which I see every time I teach about the Daughter’s of Edward Darley Boit …
Applying paint in new ways is one of my favorite things. In college, I was having lunch in the cafeteria with a group of friends when I accidentally squirted ketchup across the table out of one of those red plastic ketchup bottles. As an artist my first reaction was, of course, ‘I wonder if I …
Here’s yet another of the many ideas I’ve had about my knitted canvasses: Use clear gesso so that the color of the yarn is the first color in the painting. I haven’t started to do it yet, but I have a couple canvasses waiting and a couple paintings about to be done. So as soon …
While I was lying on the floor, listening to ilyAIMY, and outlining a series of orange drips in yellow I got distracted by the textures of my own paintings. I know that sounds a little strange, maybe egotistical, but the thing about my kind of abstract art is that only half of it is made …
Although drawing and I have a rocky relationship, I have always loved figure drawing. Particularly gestural figure drawing done with charcoal (what a surprise, I know). When I first moved to Boston I spent some time looking for figure drawing classes that I could take part in. I went to a could drop-in pay $10 …
During my first year in Boston, I didn’t spend nearly as much time as I liked doing art. Now, that’s changed. Since the summer I’ve been spending at least a few hours each week in my little studio, slowly getting more paint over everything. I’ve finished a good amount of paintings, compared to the one …