Laraine Armenti

student of painting

  • HOME
  • ART
    • Collage in Workshops 2022
    • Sketchbook 2018-2021
    • Sketchbooks
    • Still-life & Interiors
    • Landscape
    • Collage
    • Magnolias
    • Mylar
    • Gouache Copies
  • BLOG
  • JOURNEYS
    • WORKSHOPS
      • Looking and Inventing
      • Alteration Shop: Mending and Alterations
      • A Thousand Collages and the Landscape — Without the Outdoors
      • Observing Abstraction / Inventing Subject
      • Abstraction for Realists — Working from the Model: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Collage, and Sculpture
      • Inventing Still Life: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Collage, and Sculpture
    • RESIDENCIES
    • INTERNATIONAL
  • BOOKS
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • CONTACT

Sumi Ink — #2

March 23, 2013 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Ink, 03/17/13

Studio, sumi ink on rough water color paper in handmade book from India; pages 8×16 inches, 03/21/13 03/20/13 03/19/13 03/17/13 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: boston, sumi ink

Sumi Ink — #1

March 15, 2013 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

031313_Stilllife_ink

Comm Ave and Masspike, sumi ink on rough water color paper in handmade book from India; pages 8x16 inches; 03/13/13 — 03/14/13. Studio with Chair Still-life with Plants … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: boston, studio, sumi ink

Visual Poems

October 8, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Some graduate school assignments are given to expand use of materials, to produce unexpected results, and to reveal untapped aspects of ourselves. In one assignment, we were asked to select two poems and make a drawing of each. One of the poems I chose was "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. I stitched together two pieces of fabric along the center line, and stretched it by wetting and stapling it to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Collage / Color, Drawing, Ink, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: diebenkorn, kohn, lichtman, Matisse, robert frost, sylvia plath, velasquez

Suburbs

July 30, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

072812_corot_ink

I've been using a sketchbook to look for outdoor painting locations that offer parking, shade and other necessities, along with the subject itself. The pen is liquid ink, made by Pilot, claims to be archival. ABOVE: Houses, pen & moleskine, 5x8 in (13x20 cm), 07/24/12 Observatory, pen & moleskine, 5x8 in (13x20 cm), 07/24/12 Greenhouse, pen & cachet, 8 x10 in (20x25 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Ink, Landscape Outdoor Tagged With: Corot, greenhouse, suburbs, wellesley

Poetry Book Project

May 21, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Poetry Book Project The Boston University poetry book project is an annual event for first year, second semester masters candidates. Each artist is randomly paired with a current or former poet in the writing program. The poets read their poems while the artists showed their books in a presentation on May 2, 2012. I was paired with Jacob Strautmann and we chose his poem 'Request, Upper Big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Drawing, Ink, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: poem, poetry

Window Views

November 14, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

102611_bamboo

Last of the sumi ink & bamboo pen series. Sumi ink, bamboo pen, Arches Aquarelle or Fabriano Artistico, 140 lb. hotpress, 7.5 x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm).  ABOVE: 10/26/11 10/28/11 10/31/11 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: boston, teapot

Visual Critique

October 22, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

102111_homework_01

Visual Critiques are drawings done in response to other students's work. My drawings were made without preliminary sketches, worked directly from six paintings, work of half the class. Drawings for these assignments become the property of the artist whose painting is the original subject. 1.   George Bellows's lithos of prize fights came to mind as I began "Fighters". As Bellows' had done, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Ink, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: cow, Fighters, Laken, Pods, Reflection, Scream, visual critique

Boston Ink

October 22, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Lecture Series sumi ink & bamboo pen drawing series. ABOVE: 10/14/11. All drawings: sumi ink and bamboo pen on Arches Aquarelle or Fabriano Artistico, 140 lb. hotpress, 7.5 x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm), except 10/13/11 6.75 x 10 inches (17 x 25 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: bamboo, boston, sumi ink

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 15
  • Next Page »

SUBSCRIBE FREE TO BLOG

Recent Posts

  • Shape, Color & Pattern
  • Wild Turkey Visits
  • Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio
  • Outsiders — Musa Collective
  • Evolution
  • Teacher Student
  • Summer Drawings
  • Summer Series
  • Little Gems Show
  • Spring Teaching 2018

Search

Content by Category

Content by Date

Copyright © 2023 Laraine Armenti. All rights reserved. Please do not copy pictures or text without permission.
Outreach Pro · Built on the Genesis Framework · Customization and maintenance by ASK Design.