Laraine Armenti

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October Light

October 15, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

city_acrylic

My studio work day begins with drawing the city from third floor windows, using sumi ink and bamboo pen. Drawing led to doing a larger acrylic painting on paper. Simplifying and limiting color to black and white has helped organize space. This week the color yellow made its appearance. The critical response was, “You are doing what you already know how to do.”

The evening drawing class instructor creates complex set-ups for the figure each week. The wall behind the figure was covered with colorful posters, two brilliant silk Japanese wedding kimonos hung on easels, and a large vase of artificial flowers on the floor. The model sat among it all. The preponderance of color made me run down the hall to my studio to collect paint and brushes.

ABOVE: Boston, acrylic on paper, 26 x 40 inches ( 66 x 102 cm), 10/13/11

figure_kimono

Figure & Kimono, gouache on paper,  15  x 11 inches ( 38 x 28 cm), 10/12/11

Filed Under: Acrylic, Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Landscape Outdoor, Painting, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: boston, kimono

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Little Gems: a group exhibition of small artworks by fifteen contemporary artists

May 29 – July 28, 2018

Gladstone
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978-704-9410

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From Life: Studio School Paintings

September 8, 2017 — November 16, 2017

Cambridge Center Studio School
42 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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