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Shape, Color & Pattern

December 2, 2022 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Clara Reading, acrylic-painted paper collage

Workshop Art: Ken Kewley's Looking and Inventing “Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.” — Werner Heisenberg, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . Participating in a Ken Kewley collage workshop has become a nearly annual event for me since 2015. It is hard to equal elsewhere the quantity and scope of work produced in one of Ken's workshops. The pace is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Animation, Collage / Color, Drawing, Figure, Painting Tagged With: abstraction, figurative, Ken Kewley, Michigan, reading, Three Pines

Wild Turkey Visits

November 3, 2021 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Meleagris gallopavo, wild turkeys, goauche & ink

Meleagris gallopavo — North American Wild Turkeys  The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. — Friedrich von Schiller (1759 – 1805) . . . . . . . . . . Wild turkeys appear in our suburban backyard at unpredictable times. Groups of three or five amble—or race single file—between maples and pines into the half-acre lot at the top of a New England hill. Their girth and scale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Drawing, Gouache & Watercolor, Ink, Painting

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio

August 8, 2021 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Mae, b&w ink drawing, detail

Death & Marketing There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.—David Lloyd George, British prime minister (1916–22). . . . . . . . . . A lot has changed in 32 months since my last post. For one thing, I thought the number was 18, then did the math. Grasp of time, as others have noted, has been a casualty during the Covid-19 pandemic, to put it mildly. It has taken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Graphite, Ink

Outsiders — Musa Collective

November 22, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

OUTSIDERS . . . . . . . . . . MUSA Collective Dec 8, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . Paintings by: Laraine Armenti Robert Werbicki Grace Colletta Elizabeth Flood Noah Sussman George Nick . . . . . . . . . . Opening Reception: Dec 8, 2018,  4–6 pm Closing Reception: Jan 19, 2019,  4-6 pm Gallery hours by appointment:  musacollectiveboston@gmail.com . . . . . . . . . … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting Tagged With: musa collective

Evolution

November 7, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

When I was in high school I elected to take a class in isometric drafting, becoming the teacher's first female student in 1975. Learning technical drawing could have led to an internship in an engineering department at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Instead, despite parental protest to the high school principal, the  work-study opportunity was awarded to a boy in my class because, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Tools, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: accounts payable, book, DEC, eniac, TAG, technical illustration, univac, website

Teacher Student

October 5, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

It can be a mark of pride in art to be self-taught, to be an Autodidact, Visionary, or Outsider artist. To a degree all artists can claim the title of being self-taught, despite Abe Lincoln's warning that, “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” Hours lead to years of blind groping for uncertain results that truly place one face to face with oneself. There are also those who believe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: limited palette, workshops

Summer Drawings

August 22, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Drawing means different things to different people. As a practitioner I want to make the approximate specific and say more with less. The most important thing is to draw often, in whatever way possible, to realize its potential. I went to ten extraordinary museums on art trips in New England this summer. Museums usually forbid the use of ink when drawing in sketchbooks from their art in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Graphite, Ink, Still-life Indoor, Tools Tagged With: museums, sketchbooks, trips

Summer Series

August 19, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

In July I went to Vermont with a plan to paint landscapes in the remaining pages of a book I made in 2016. I painted new gouache landscapes but also worked back into several earlier pages. The result is that there are still blank pages in the book, leaving me with the same reason to return again. My trip coincided with the 73rd annual Bennington Chamber Music Conference held on the college … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gouache & Watercolor, Landscape Outdoor, Painting Tagged With: bennington, chamber music, observatory

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