Latest painting - " Don't Get Caught"

"Don't Get Caught" 18" x 24" acrylic on canvas

On occasion I live vicariously through my painting. It's a little pathetic, but I used to be that girl, just not as cute.

Sketchbook Project 2011

Spoke to a good friend and fellow artist, Mary Jennings, yesterday. She told me about the Sketchbook Project 2011. Sounded like an interesting new project. I am signing up today. I never sketch but I have always believed sketching would help conseptualize future paintings.

It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.

Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the world. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view. Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project. 

2011 Sketchbook Project Tour Seattle from mightymoss on Vimeo.

Painting of the Day -"Prosperity" by Sara Scribner

"Prosperity"
oil on panel
12x12
2010

Sara Scribner was born in 1982. Since her youth, she has had a deep passion for understanding the human condition. She began drawing at an early age, and her artistic interests have always focused upon the human figure.

Sara studied at, and in 2004 graduated from, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. As a student, she studied with some of the most exciting contemporary figurative painter, including Xhaoming Wu and Kevin Moore. Sara explored and honed her artistic penchant for transcending mere portraiture, attempting to capture the subject’s ego and id.

Following graduation, Sara began her professional career by focusing on semi-abstract, expressive figurative work. Recently she has returned to her more classical roots. Her portraits are evocative and nuanced, while honoring classical figurative painting.

Sara is married to Shane Scribner, a fellow figurative painter who she met while studying at the Academy of Art. They have exhibited in galleries throughout their home state, and in juried competitions across the nation.

New blog feature - "Painting of the Day"

I thought it would be interesting to feature a "painting of the day". Here is my first entry. 

dearest darling

oil on wood 10.5 X 18"

This painting is so sweet painted by Ruth Shively. I like her most resent work.