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Suburbs

July 30, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

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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

Paint, Paper, Poem

April 11, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Studio with two oil paintings, 50x50 oil on canvas. Acrylic paper collage. Acrylic paper collage, charcoal drawing, oil on wood panel. Color free studies and modified boxes, color-aid paper. Madrid sketchbook, Goya, 2nd of May. Madrid sketchbook, Goya, 2nd of May. Madrid sketchbook, Ribera, Magdalen. Madrid sketchbook, El Greco, portraits and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Collage / Color, Drawing, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: El Greco, guitar, Madrid, Ribera, sketchbook

Window Views

November 14, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

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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

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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

BU First Month

October 10, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

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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

Project Review

October 6, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Painting in school quickly developed too many areas of interest: oil landscapes, figure drawing, homework, and the bamboo pen & sumi ink drawing series. I realized drawing is pushing out painting time in the first three weeks. These are all good projects but the MFA degree I am pursuing is in painting, not drawing. Adjustments must be made. The oil landscapes are from my studio window. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Ink, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: boston, BU, city, MFA

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