Last week I started talking about a recent still life I wanted to paint in memory of my grandmother. Today, I’ll show you how I went about completing that work. I started by lightly sketching the still life onto the canvas with pencil. Some artists have the confidence the go right at the canvas with… Continue reading A Still Life for Grammie, Part Two
Month: February 2019
A Still Life for Grammie, Part One
My paternal grandmother passed away in October. She’d been suffering from dementia for several years, so in many respects, the person I knew and loved had already been gone for some time. Still, Grammie was a seminal presence to my childhood and early adulthood, so I couldn’t help but be affected by her passing. Whether… Continue reading A Still Life for Grammie, Part One
What I’m Taking This Semester, Spring Edition
The spring semester commenced in mid-January, so classes have been in session for a few weeks. Let’s take a look at what I’m studying this time around. My first class for the week is Modern US, which meets on Monday afternoons. Although I took a lot of history classes in college, none of them concentrated… Continue reading What I’m Taking This Semester, Spring Edition
Scalar Book: The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center
As you know from my post about my DH semester project, I made a Scalar book about the Roswell Museum’s WPA archive. Scalar was still quite new to me at the time, so I hadn’t discovered all the cool things I could do with it yet. Today then, I’d like to take another look at that project and… Continue reading Scalar Book: The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center