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Feb 5, 20141 min read
It’s snowing; it must be Wednesday!
IMG_3950, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. For the past month or more, every Wednesday we have had a heavy snowstorm. Usually about 15...
Jan 28, 20141 min read
Magic
Sunday morning, Michael Enright, on the Sunday Edition (one of my favorite programs! favorite moderator) interviewed Petula Clark. At 82...
Jan 3, 20141 min read
Horizontal snow!
P1040690, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. It’s a real blizzard outside (wind/snow/wind/snow/snow/snow/snow) . . . and a lively blast...
Dec 17, 20131 min read
What is abstract
In my class last week, one of my students asked an interesting question: in an abstract painting, how important is it for there to be no...
Dec 16, 20131 min read
Painting news
IMG_3802, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. It’s been quiet on the painting front for about a week. At least, until today. I finally had...
Nov 11, 20132 min read
Got the blues
IMG_3592, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. A little over a week ago, some people contacted me to say they really liked my work,...
Nov 1, 20131 min read
The Boss
IMG_3718, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Every time I think I know, have an idea about what I am going to do with a particular...
Oct 28, 20132 min read
The view from here
This morning I woke up thinking I love my life. With the sun streaming in my big windows overlooking the lake, I had to put sunglasses on...
Oct 27, 20131 min read
On the trail again
IMG_3636, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Once I got the okay from my eye surgeon, I hurried into my studio and, of course, overdid...
Oct 11, 20132 min read
I must have a thousand photos of sunrise over the lake
Three days past Tuesday and I still have rubber legs. Still need to cover my right eye most of the time. We have had such glorious sunny...
Oct 7, 20131 min read
Ask me nothing
It was a very full weekend. Studio rally time, again. And the weather was perfect. I had an almost continuous studio full of people...
Sep 29, 20131 min read
Too far; too soon
Wednesday, we started talking about what it means to go to far–in a painting. My answer was: often it is when you haven’t gone far...
Sep 26, 20131 min read
It sticks
Somehow, we started talking about abstraction yesterday. Well, not unreasonable, as it is an abstract painting class. One student, Beth,...
Sep 18, 20131 min read
Burn Water
Blue skies from now, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Sunday evening I went to a concert/dance performance that was on the grounds of...
Sep 10, 20132 min read
It’s a whole new world
All the way to the hospital yesterday morning, I felt like I wasn’t doing this: it was someone else and I was just in the car watching...
Sep 6, 20131 min read
Where do you start
Last week in my class, a student asked me what is abstract art. He wanted me to talk about it because he had never done it. This was his...
Aug 10, 20131 min read
More red
When I was painting the walls of my house recently, I put together chips of the various colors I wanted to use: various grays, light and...
Aug 5, 20131 min read
Red is the color of my true love
A few days ago I received an email from someone I know who is interested in my work. She mentioned she had a love affair with red, did...
Jul 28, 20131 min read
Checking in
IMG_3438, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. So I’ve had my stint in the Big City during the Big Heat Wave: it was wonderful being with...
Jul 17, 20132 min read
Turning up the senses
Yesterday Damian and I braved the intense NYC heat to go to the James Turrell light show at the Guggenheim. Turrell had transformed the...
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