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Winter sun beam
This time of year, in Seattle, the world lights up when the sun comes out. My southern exposure window lit up Bob, my bass yesterday, and that one small square just glowed.
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My Tonsu
This winter has been a long dry period for me. I haven’t been inspired to paint. Hoping that a class might help, I started a class with Tom Hoffmann, a local artist and instructor. This week he told us that we didn’t have to waste time looking for stuff to paint, just sit down and…
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Navaho Boy from Edward Curtis Photograph
When inspiration is hard to find, I can always go back to portraits. And if no one I know is clamoring for their portrait to be commissioned, I can always reach back into the archives of faces that are immortalized by artists like Edward Curtis.
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A Glowing Steed
It is my good fortune to be related to a horse woman with excellent taste in horseflesh. When I first heard about Picasso, a grey Warmblood, I waited impatiently for some good photos of him. A few eventually appeared, but this painting does not have a reference photo. This pose came from a dream. In…
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Sleeping Beauty
When my cousin posted a photo of her youngest sleeping, I was smitten. What a delicate lovely face! I left it alone for a couple days, because I find painting children to be the most daunting. But, oh, what a fetching scene. So I tried it. I actually painted her four times before I was…
Mimi Torchia Boothby
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