For someone who says she doesn’t paint the standard ‘head shot’ types of portraits, I certainly have done a few. Sometimes I take the commission, but just don’t post it here; as it’s not the type of work that represents what I do. And yet, it does. Sure, my paintings are usually animated or goofy orContinue reading “Shadows & Light (Rummy)”
Author Archives: N Anderson
Experience or Exhibit?
The first time I visited Somerville Open Studios, I was living just south of Boston, and some friends and I hopped on the train and rode in. As a latent artist myself (I hadn’t been painting for years), I was intrigued by this concept of visiting artists in their workspace; just roaming through and seeingContinue reading “Experience or Exhibit?”
A Comfortable Couch, 48 x 36″
I worked this up from an old photo I had, on an old computer. Rupert has been gone almost a year now, and the couch didn’t survive the move a few years ago to a smaller apartment. God, he loved that couch. After a long day in a busy city retail shop or a goodContinue reading “A Comfortable Couch, 48 x 36″”
Barney and a Daffodil
I’ve been in somewhat of a state of simmering, sniveling discontent since about Nov 2016. It’s not that injustice didn’t exist before then; it’s more that it wasn’t waved so freely and incitefully in the faces of those with a moral conscience. So, going to the studio, there has been a certain inadequacy to theContinue reading “Barney and a Daffodil”
Brody, almost done
Sometimes, I spend way too much time on a painting. Brody (36 x 36″) is almost done, but I still need to add a ton of white muzzle hairs and then the black whiskers. I’m letting it dry for a bit while I start Barney…
Skadi, done
I think Skadi is done. I’d left it for quite a while to allow the initial layers to dry. I had never painted on board before, and found it extremely challenging. For me, board (even gessoed) is too slippery for oils, and I thought that the underpainting would allow subsequent layers to grip;Continue reading “Skadi, done”
A Juxtaposing Weekend
I had the good fortune of attending a day of panel discussions and breakout sessions for artists at The Art of Protest: Public Art and Scholarship as Political Resistance at the Mayapple Center for Arts & Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. The day included visual arts, poetry, filmmaking, writing, and music, from aContinue reading “A Juxtaposing Weekend”
The Subconscious Beginnings of a New Idea
I’ve been puttering around in the studio, working on this and that, enjoying a little time to work on my own ideas while the next couple of commissions make some decisions (which size? Is this picture the one?). Sure, it slows down the queue a little, but I am always happy to have time toContinue reading “The Subconscious Beginnings of a New Idea”
Intermittent Reinforcers
Like most of us, I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. While it has always been obvious that the user is the product on a free social media platform, Zuckerberg’s despicable brand of greedy exploitation of others to serve his own self-interest has its own strain of wanton deceit (obvious to anyone who listened toContinue reading “Intermittent Reinforcers”
Whys and Whatnots and Talking to Dogs
I was talking with another artist recently about artist statements; why we do the work we do, and how we articulate the reasons why we do the work we do. The artist statement is the bane of our existence. Never-ending, we are constantly re-examining and tweaking, editing it for every gallery we contact and each show we submit to, but never truly satisfiedContinue reading “Whys and Whatnots and Talking to Dogs”
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