Recent content by stlukesguild

I'm working on surviving the last 7 days of the school year. Last week was insane... and I've battling a nasty head cold on top of it all.

Of course, there is always a more certain means of getting your art into a major gallery: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11882683/Famed-art-dealer-Larry-Gagosian-artist-Anna-Weyant-arrive-New-York.html

We were worried. Weather forecasts from last week had predicted cloudy skies for today. When I got up this morning it was raining and the forecast called for clear skies from 12-2 and then cloudy after that. By noon we had clear skies and I took some pictures of the blossoming cherry tree in our...

I was thinking of starting a new thread on "guilty pleasures"... and then found this old one that I had started some 4 years ago. I read through it all again. God! How I miss Musket. :cry: So among all our members do any of you want to admit to any "guilty pleasures" related to your art? I can...

Terri, Thanks. 🙏 We got the day off because there was a concern about the kids looking up at the eclipse in progress when school let out. There is also a concern over the number of people coming to Cleveland to view the eclipse.

This makes me think of Modigliani filtered through Max Beckmann: Being a huge fan of both artists, I quite like your painting.

With this 3 day weekend... we get off for the solar eclipse... I finally got back to work painting. Today I completed all the gold leaf seen here and the tessellations and blocked in the hair... which like the figure below is a work in progress. The hair will almost certainly be a good deal lighter.

Only problem is that Rubens is spelled wrong. 😜