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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 27, 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


Grid Experiment #2- complete
04.15.2024: What does it mean for a work of art to take multiple forms? Adaptable, versatile, the final resolution dependent on the...
onepaintingaday
Apr 15, 20241 min read


Waiting for Totality
Paint "box" is a plastic portfolio case and a ziplock bag to hold tubes of paint. It's waterproof! Perfect for placing on the ground...
Rachel
Apr 8, 20241 min read


Edges beyond edges
If craft is revealed at the edges of a work, then a grid of 32 canvases means painting 128 edges. I think this may be form of...
onepaintingaday
Mar 27, 20241 min read


Worlds within Worlds- Part B
In the previous post, I asked, "How much of the creative process involves setting out in one direction with certain degrees of...
onepaintingaday
Feb 24, 20242 min read


Worlds within Worlds- Part A
How much of the creative process involves setting out in one direction with certain degrees of uncertainty, seeing it through, and...
onepaintingaday
Feb 24, 20242 min read


Making the Grid: supporting the canvases v3.0
The first two attempts to support and contain 16 canvases, as one unit, were short-term solutions at best. The first (foam core and...
Rachel
Feb 1, 20242 min read


Experiments and Explorations: Making the Grid Paintings v 2.0
This is grid display version 2.0. In summary, I would need another method for working/ display of the pieces. More below: In making the...
Rachel
Aug 22, 20231 min read


Experiments and Explorations: Grid Painting v 1.0
Planning ahead for a summer trip, I wondered if I could create a painting out of a grid of smaller canvases. It would make for easier...
Rachel
Jan 15, 20232 min read


Pioneer Valley Poetry Podcast- "A Walk Before Dawn"- by Rachel Loeffler
Thanks Izzi D’Amico and Pioneer Valley Poetry for featuring my poem, "A Walk Before Dawn" https://pioneer-valley-poetry.com/2023/01/27/a...
Rachel
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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