Overcoming the Fear of Painting Portraits

Portrait of person with glasses, colorful background.

Finally, after at least a decade (or two) of apprehension, I decided to take a workshop to learn how to paint portraits. Lora Murphy is an Irish artist I met a few years ago, and in September I attended the “Art and Soul Journey”, a 10 day trip to Ireland to learn about the people, places,…

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The Learning Curve

Learning curve graph with humorous annotations.

I found the image above on a literary site, and relate to it on so many levels. This is just my second blog post since switching from blogspot.com and I am still clicking around behind the scenes trying to figure out the structure, codes, which buttons lead to which results… technology is definitely not my…

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Holiday Shows

Winter forest scene with snow-covered trees.

All three of my submitted paintings (below) were accepted into “Imagine Denmark”, November 10 – 25, 2017, Kunstvaerket Galleri, Vitapark, Odder, Denmark. This is Denmark’s first International Encaustic show! “Night Shadows” (below) is on display in Denver at the Knoll Gallery “Wax Stories II”, November 3 – January 6, 2018. The Copley Society of Art annual Small Works Holiday Show…

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