Laraine Armenti

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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

Spring Teaching 2018

March 25, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Registration is now open for my spring teaching schedule beginning April 2 at ccae.org and April 10 at www.danforth.org. This post contains examples of student art from three classes I teach in painting and drawing. Below are descriptions of each class and the schools where the classes are offered. From Copies to Life at the Cambridge Center Studio School. This class alternates between copying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Copies, Drawing, Oil, Painting, Photo, Still-life Indoor, Teaching Tagged With: basket, bread, copies, drape, milk, pitcher, poinsettia, skull

Looking at Watteau

April 10, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Five years ago, I spent time in Madrid indulging in the feast of the city and in some of Europe's greatest museums. I carried a sketchbook with me to draw in the galleries. A few pages shown here are of Jean-Antoinne Watteau's paintings at the Thyssen-Bornemisza. Watteau was the progenitor of the 'fêtes galantes' genre, theatrical scenes of idylls and pastorals. Other visitors were kind to me, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Copies, Drawing, Figure, Graphite, Ink, Painting Tagged With: fêtes galantes, handbook, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, uniball, Watteau

Tv Portraits

March 9, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Journalists, politicians, reporters, and policy experts are the portrait subjects of the five minute animated gif in this post. Drawings were made while watching tv news shows during the three month period between the presidential election and first six weeks of the new administration. News of the day opportunistically provided subjects for drawings that are presented in roughly the order they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Animation, Drawing, Figure, Ink Tagged With: journalists, policy experts, politicians, reporters, tv portraits

2016 Review

January 22, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

I was concerned when assembling this review that I might confuse my readers with disparate series of works from this year. To be a generalist also conflicts with good advice. Mark Twain observed, "Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business." My amateur values — instincts, sensibilities, proclivities, predisposition, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Collage / Color, Drawing, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: birds, Nicolas de Staël, ships, year in review

Reporter’s Notebook

November 27, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

I am among countless fans of Gwen Ifill who were shocked and saddened by her premature death on November 14, 2016. Her wit, warmth, incisive intelligence, and "megawatt" smile are deeply missed. She provided invaluable insights into contemporary politics that I appreciated as a frequent viewer of Washington Week and the PBS NewsHour. Many of the journalists seen on the two shows became subjects of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink Tagged With: gwen ifill, journalists, sketchbook

Drawing Bruegel

May 4, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Bruegel, 041816

Drawings from Pieter Bruegel using recently acquired Namiki Pilot Falcon fountain pen with carbon ink in a Moleskine sketchbook, 8x5 inch. Above: Peasants Dancing (1568). Pieter Bruegel, The Dark Day (1565) and other paintings Pieter Bruegel, The Land of Cockaigne (1567) and The Battle Between Carnival and Lent (1559) Pieter Bruegel, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Copies, Drawing, Figure, Ink, Tools Tagged With: moleskine, namiki falcon

Edwardian Schema

March 23, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

031416_falcon_03

To celebrate the arrival of a new drawing pen, I used my Moleskine sketchbook to copy lessons from Drawing Made Easy by E.G. Lutz, originally published in 1916. His method is simple. He starts with geometric guidelines of outside shapes, then divides big shapes into smaller ones. Instruction in this type of schematic drawing was largely abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s in favor of supposedly more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Copies, Drawing, Ink Tagged With: schema

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

May 29 – July 28, 2018

Gladstone
36 1/2 Union Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
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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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