Infusing meaning into numbers is one way to identify benchmarks, recognizing that time takes us forward regardless of our intentions. For street artist Space Invader, the act of recording and cataloging his two-decade Space Invaders project “is very much an ongoing meta-work, constantly expanding and transforming.” Marking that passage of […]
Paris
Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris
In Paris last month I did some sketching at one of my favorite spots, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens. This is a little video preview of me sketching. The full 10-minute video sharing the process of creating these two sketches is a free bonus course available to my […]
Artists’ Gardens – Nancy Paris Pruden
Inspiration Close at Hand Artists’ Gardens Nancy Paris Pruden Front Yard Garden 8 x 10″ Plein Air Oil © Nancy Paris Pruden In response to our Perspectives “Inspiration Close at Hand” call for paintings created in artists’ gardens or other personal spaces, we received these two images from artist, […]
Secret Spots in Paris, by Sadie Valeri
My husband Nowell and I just returned from a month-long trip to Europe and this is the first of a series of blog posts about Paris, Antwerp, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Vienna. The other cities were new destinations for us, but Nowell and I have visited Paris many times together. […]
Fugues in Colour at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
I arrived to Paris on a pilgrimage, seriously, to see the new mural by Megan Rooney at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. She is just one of the most formidable abstract painters functioning today. And while I was making my way there—as the Eurostar thundered via the tunnel, and as I […]
Why So Many African American Artists Moved to Paris in the 1920s | Antiques Roadshow
With its stunning shades and pro use of point of view, seeing Quartier Saint-Hilaire, by the renowned African American artist Löis Mailou Jones, at the Sands Position ROADSHOW very last September was a unique treat for me. It is a gorgeous watercolor and a excellent example of the artist’s distinctive […]