Linda's Art Blog
This blog is for discussions on Art and Design in support of students, artists, and buyers of Art. It is a way to have some fun with my home studio and on-line students and anyone interested in Art History and current events. Comment on this blog as an opportunity to share recent shows and events and thoughts about your own art process.
January 26 & 27
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 3:51PM ;)
Dear friends and artists,
I have created a series of workshops that I previously taught as a weekly class. Now, a fun introduction to Basic Design with some simple, powerful exercises is offered as a weekend workshop. If you have never made art before, or if you are an advanced artist you will benefit from this material. Enjoy the Louisville Arts District. If you have taken the Basic Design class before, please consider recommending me to a friend.
Ridgway Workshop was a Huge Success!
Saturday, September 1, 2012 at 8:47PM ;)
We couldn't have had a more beautiful setting for our 3 day workshop. Thanks to Joy Billings for sharing her studio and view with us.
The artists were so engaged and willing to be absorbed in the material. What a great group. Lots of great right brain time, collegial breaks, and sunshine.
Each artist had real success with the exercises, and we laughed a lot in between. Ridgway is even more beautiful than I remembered. No wonder so many artists end up there. I stayed an extra few days and met Alice Billings and her rescue mustangs, soaked in Orvis Hotsprings, visited the Dennis Weaver Memorial Park (See it to believe it.), and the Ute Museum. I came back with my heart filled and ready to paint. Click for testimonials. See more photos on my Facebook Page.
Art review: "Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980"
Friday, July 27, 2012 at 12:54AM ;)
Color Theory students will want to read this article about Karl Benjamin. Here is an exerpt: "Part of that is due to Benjamin’s work ethic. For decades, he painted with purposefulness that bordered on recklessness, eagerly embarking on new bodies of work immediately upon completing old ones, which he squirreled away in a storeroom. Over the years, that storeroom became a treasure trove, which Benjamin’s recent exhibitions dig into."
Exquisite Illustration
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 4:29PM ;)
"Leo Dillon, who with his wife and longtime collaborator, Diane, was one of the world’s pre-eminent illustrators for young people, producing artwork — praised for its vibrancy, ecumenicalism and sheer sumptuous beauty — that was a seamless amalgam of both their hands, died on Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 79."nytimes
Robert Miles Parker, 72, Artist of Cities
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 11:40AM ;)
from the NYTimes"...Though Mr. Parker also painted in oils — portraits and floral still lifes as well as cityscapes — it was his pen-and-ink work of aspects of Manhattan’s architectural profile that garnered the most attention. Lively and reverently joyful, representational but far from architecturally precise, his drawings were shown frequently in both private galleries and public places, including the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library and the Museum of the City of New York...."http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/arts/design/robert-miles-parker-dies-at-72-artist-and-preservationist.html?_r=1;)