February, Week 5

I hauled this beginning
out of the mothballs recently.
I am spending more time staring at it,
and less time completing it...

Any suggestions?

January, Week 4

This week is a good week for arts and crafts inside the home! This morning we enjoyed a sunny 2º with a thick glaze of snow-covered ice. So I have spent quite a few hours in the art room playing with watercolors. Nothing to show just yet, since all I have been doing is playing with color and lines and such. If I were a more-advanced artist, I would say I have been been working on technique; but, no, I have simply been playing with color and lines and such.

One little watercolor exercise I have is a 365-page calendar of watercolor paintings that I am supposed to copy. Much like an daily paint-by-number except that it's paint-what-they-painted instead. It is oddly therapeutic for me...I can get lost in the painting.

Here is an interesting new site provided by the people at Google:

Art Project

We can tour museums around the world and view their art collections. This is pretty handy, especially for someone ice- and snowbound in rural Kansas. Here are the museums we can visit:

• Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany
• Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA

• The Frick Collection, NYC - USA
• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA
• MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA
• Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain
• Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain
• Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic
• National Gallery, London - UK
• Palace of Versailles - France
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
• The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia
• State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia
• Tate Britain, London - UK
• Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands