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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

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

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

Rodin — Philadelphia

December 31, 2013 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

rodin_phil_drwg_02

Evidence of my on-going effort to draw in galleries from great art. No pens allowed in the Rodin Museum. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Graphite Tagged With: Philadelphia, Rodin

BU First Month

October 10, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

traffic_rain

Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Collage / Color, Copies, Drawing, Figure, Graphite, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: boston, city, geranium, nude, palette, traffic, visual critique

DeCordova Museum

September 1, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

decordova

I am extremely pleased to become a lending artist of DeCordova Museum's Corporate Loan Program. DeCordova Museum was the first museum I visited regularly as a child with my family. In my twenties, I took night classes in figure drawing for several years at the museum's school. The main building is high on a wooded hill overlooking pristine Sandy Pond, a near neighbor of Walden Pond. A former … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Exhibitions, Graphite, Photo, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: decordova, nested bowls

Outdoor Painting Resumes

May 24, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Verrill's — 10 x 10 in (25 x 25 cm), oil on paper, 2011

Verrill's — oil on paper, 10" x 10" (25 x 25 cm), 05/13/2011 Verrill's — pencil, 7″ x 10″ (18 x 25 cm), 05/13/2011 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Graphite, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting Tagged With: verrill's

Egg, Pitcher, Wrapped Cup

September 24, 2010 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

egg, pitcher, wrapped cup; graphite on mylar

Egg, Pitcher, Wrapped Cup; graphite on mylar,  5″ x 9″ (13  x 23  cm), 09/2010 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Graphite, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: egg, pitcher, wrapped cup

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