One day a couple of years ago, I was hiking with my own dog and a camera, and crossed paths with a dog walker running a pack of dogs. They carried on, barely even stopping to sniff my own dog and say hey; but one of them, a little puggle, stopped in front of meContinue reading “Molly identified”
Author Archives: N Anderson
Color
What is it? Radiolab had a great episode on color… http://www.radiolab.org
imp – in process
I really thought that this would work up so much faster. It should be done soon, though!
imp (underpainting)
Nothing is better at getting me to clean the entire house than a big canvas needing an underpainting. I was invited to exhibit my work in a café in Davis Sq for the month of November. The owner asked for “less dogs and more people, landscapes, or abstract paintings…” Well, that’s fine, I thought. IContinue reading “imp (underpainting)”
Greetings from the Glitter Fairy Princess
I don’t normally paint from photos that have been published, but I had an old postcard from the Somerville Arts Council’s ArtBeat from 1998 that screamed to me.
A Very Good Boy
All along, this painting was called “Monty & Friends” because, well, that’s Monty there with his horse friends Jackie (left) and Eddie (right). This is a zoomed and cropped portion of a much larger image that a Swissy friend had posted to an online forum. I wanted to paint it. I was living in MaineContinue reading “A Very Good Boy”
Ode to SOS
I remember sitting at my desk at work, years ago, talking about needing to move, and a co-worker suggested that I move to Somerville. Good God, I thought. Somerville? Growing up south of Boston, it was inherent that we not venture north of the city. (I did, once or twice, but only briefly.) She saidContinue reading “Ode to SOS”
Sleepy Seany done
There are parts of it that make it my worst painting, and there are parts that make it my best. As a whole, it’s neither. Still, there’s something special about this painting to me, and I suppose it’s the subject. Sean is one of the sweetest dogs I have ever met.
The Curse Reversed
Aha! I still have to do the muzzle and the sofa cushion and the shadiness in between, but Sleepy Seany is coming along. The process of art — or, of the creative mind — is fascinating, to me. I still don’t understand why I can go days or weeks with absolutely no ability, and thenContinue reading “The Curse Reversed”
Sleepy Seany Resurrected
No, I can do this. Of course, it may take a while…
Nancy Anderson 