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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

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

New from Vermont

August 14, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Bennington, Vermont continues to inspire me as an artist. This year I returned to Art New England, a Mass College of Art workshop program that convenes on the Bennington College campus each summer. It is a remarkable gift to work every day for two weeks without other responsibilities, far from the madding crowd. The focus yields incremental but essential changes in my work, especially while guided … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Collage / Color, Figure, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting, Workshop Tagged With: ANE, bennington, Brigadoon

Masterpiece Copies

May 21, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

"Paris offers... the museums in which you can study the old masters;... from 12 to 4 you copy, in the Louvre or the Luxembourg, whatever masterpiece you like." — Zola’s letter to Cezanne, 1858 ~~ Art made in eras that are historically and culturally different from our own provides a limitless source of instruction and inspiration. For the artist, the process of copying masterpieces internalizes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Copies, Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: European painting

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

Figure in Four Directions

October 1, 2016 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Once again this year, I had the good fortune to make art in an intensive workshop taught by Ken Kewley. Titled "Abstraction for Realists — Working from the Model: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Collage, and Sculpture", the workshop was held at Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, Massachusetts, in September 2016. Select tabs above labelled PROJECTS > WORKSHOPS ATTENDED to see more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Collage / Color, Figure, Painting, Workshop Tagged With: Ken Kewley, Truro Center for the Arts

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