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WITH TOTAL ABANDON!

Sunday, September 20, 2020  

 

With Total Abandon!

Sunday, September 20, 2020

 

 

My little sketchbook is a joyful reminder of the concerts that we usually enjoy by this time in the year. This is the first time in years and years that I have not purchased seasons tickets to the symphony. I really miss my seats on the first row in the right section, seats A1 and A2.  I've often wondered if they violinists can see what I am doing under their noses?

 

It is unusual to have an oboe concerto!  Much less to have one played by a lovely woman.  It is a large instrument and I would imagine that it is difficult to play and heavy to hold, It has a wonderful tonal quality to is and I have always loved to hear it.  So as a solo instrument it gets its chance to be really up front!

 

 

 

THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN MOMENT

November 12, 2020

There is hardly a more memorable memory of Italy that stays in a visitor’s mind that the fountains that are the hub of every city.  This is one of my favorites.  I have painted it in oil and now in watercolor.  More to come! Below is the same Fountain from a different view. Piles upon piles of horses, mythical creatures, pools of water with marble Gods fighting among themselves for the attentions of a lovely Goddess.  

CHANDOR GARDEN - ONCE AGAIN

September 12, 2020 

What could be more natural than waterlilies in watercolor? Back home in the studio I worked on these lacy beauties. The challenge was to get the ripples from the fountain - the circles - and the snail eaten edges of the lilies. There was onlyone bloom, I thought of adding more, but I liked the single bloom.