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Art for the hands; Art to Touch and See
Textural underpainting for future tactile art - art to touch and see I've been thinking quite a bit about a world that blurs, colors and...
onepaintingaday
Aug 95 min read


Painting Kit Fun
Completed Paint Kit by 9 members of the family. 4 tiles per person, each with their unique color selection of three colors....
onepaintingaday
Jul 272 min read


Proofs for painting kits arrived from Moo!
Here's the package unboxed. 50 cards, 36 unique patterns When Gallery A3 recommended we make our own art business cards for an upcoming...
onepaintingaday
Jul 192 min read


Amherst College - Guest Critic - Drawing a Shifting Landscape
Early in May, I was invited to be the final guest critic for Abby Flanagan's art class at Amherst College, Drawing a Shifting Landscape ,...
onepaintingaday
Jul 43 min read


Material explorations
Some notes to date of working with 10 mil Mylar (the same material often used for stencils) as a painting surface. Surface of 10 Mil...
onepaintingaday
Jun 113 min read


Collaborations - Three-Tone Abstractions
Molly's three-tone paint-by-number study: Color 1= yellow, color 2= blue, color 3 = magenta I've been trying out the three-tone -...
onepaintingaday
Jun 73 min read


Behind the Scenes (Week 3)
Making Progress! Yesterday the Oak Frame came together nicely. The frame is stable, and square. The black angle brackets make the...
Rachel
Apr 142 min read


Behind the Scenes (weeks 1 and 2)
Two colors placed on tiles, granite and silver. The reflectivity of the paint picks up the light warmth and changes color ever so subtly...
Rachel
Apr 23 min read


Mobile Mockups Part 2
Tonight, after dinner, I decided to see what happens if I fill in the back of the previously painted Mylar with sharpie, following the...
onepaintingaday
Mar 251 min read


Mobile Mockups (Part 1)
Thinking through the mobile, I had several questions to tackle: How to connect the line (fishing line) to the frame? How to connect the...
Rachel
Mar 235 min read


Paint by Number- Prototyping
mockup paint by number of original painting In thinking through the potential paint-by-number exhibit, I am interested in one...
Rachel
Mar 224 min read


Further Abstraction
I recently completed a proposal for an interactive gallery exhibit in Northampton. For the exhibit, I envision a pairing of paintings in...
Rachel
Mar 194 min read


Foray into Frames (part 4)
Dry fit of angled display Original Composition Of the menu of framing options, this post describes the results of Mockup D: Frame Angled...
onepaintingaday
Feb 166 min read


Foray into Frames (Part 3)
Progress painting (not finished)- 8 columns of 4 canvases each- inspiration for this exploration in framing. I've been sketching a bunch,...
onepaintingaday
Feb 123 min read


New Workspace
New Work table in Porch- 39" x 72" Sketching can only take me so far. There's something about just playing with the components in person...
onepaintingaday
Feb 22 min read


Foray into frames (part 2)
Template on the floor- Linnea supervises Step B: Frame as a Linear Weave was may best next bet. After seeing how fragile the rigid...
onepaintingaday
Jan 192 min read


Foray into frames (Part 1)
Kitchen used as a temporary wood shop for first test. New challenges force us to use new tools and learn new techniques. In college I...
onepaintingaday
Jan 183 min read


The Dark Side: Grid Experiment #3
Inspired by the April 2024 eclipse, this composition is created from several overlapping minutes as the sky reached totality on the side...
onepaintingaday
Oct 6, 20241 min read


Workshopping a reproduction with Hope and Feathers
I met with Michelle, the printmaker at Hope and Feathers in Northampton, and we talked paper, we talked painting, we talked color. ...
Rachel
Sep 28, 20243 min read


Hope and Feathers Eve
Heading to Hope and Feathers Framing in Northampton tomorrow to meet with their printmaker. They offer scanning and reproduction...
Rachel
Jul 9, 20241 min read
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