A brief and fascinating introduction to the life and art collection of fashion designer Paul Smith.
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I started a new painting on canvas the other day. Because I wanted rich colors for an abstract landscape, I chose to tone the canvas with orange. A mixture of…
Gamboge is the color described on pages 80-81 of Kassia St. Clair’s wonderful book, “The Secret Lives of Color”. She describes it as a bright yellow that Winsor & Newton…
I am a conduit. I do not know what I will create when I approach the canvas. It is a blank, white portal. My goal is to work in the…
Take up the ultimate decorating challenge and incorporate used items into your scheme! There is so much good stuff already lying around to be found. We can slow down the…
I was incredibly lucky to have found my art studio. It’s located in an historic downtown building, near the waterfront. It belongs to a non-profit organization that rents studios to…
My former partner is a finder, a curator of useful things. Many of the lovely period pieces that I used to decorate the first 1920s apartment (Number 5) were found…
The Arrangement If there is one thing that I consider myself an absolute expert at, it is re-arranging furniture. It started when I was a skinny ten-year-old kid, banished to…
Pretty Patterns I am teaching myself how to paint with gouache, a type of watercolor. My art practice had previously been exclusively acrylic on canvas and wood panel, typically 30”x40”…