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Evolution

November 7, 2018 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

When I was in high school I elected to take a class in isometric drafting, becoming the teacher's first female student in 1975. Learning technical drawing could have led to an internship in an engineering department at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Instead, despite parental protest to the high school principal, the  work-study opportunity was awarded to a boy in my class because, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Tools, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: accounts payable, book, DEC, eniac, TAG, technical illustration, univac, website

Tempus Fugit

September 16, 2017 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

This month marks ten years since I stopped working as a graphic designer for international meetings to devote more time to painting. My hectic pace of life, of client deadlines and to-do lists, kept interrupting painting. The change led to forks in myriad unmarked roads. I had wanted to discover what might be possible, to cultivate my potential, and I was motivated to make the change by nearing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: apple, bird, pink pitcher, plum, shell, teapot

Danforth Drawing Classes

April 5, 2015 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Danforth Drawing Cast

Drawing classes begin on Tuesday, April 7 at Danforth Museum School in Framingham, Mass. Emphasis on seeing shapes of light and dark within a compositional frame is presented. Learn to observe the direction of light on objects in space. Warm-up with gestural thumbnail sketches from observation and from memory. Translate complex forms into two-dimensional compositions using line, value, edge and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Still-life Indoor, Teaching, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: bust, teapot

Drawing Class Demo

March 19, 2015 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Drawing_demo

This week students worked on drawing heads in the observational drawing class I teach at Danforth Museum School in Framingham. We have progressed from drawing individual objects like the tea pot to complex forms such as the plaster bust of a man. The outlined features on the balloon help students see the difference between drawing flat, isolated features on a sphere in comparison to representing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Teaching, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: balloon, bust

Catalogues

February 16, 2014 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

catalogues — bok, dubrow, uglow

Thrilled and inspired to receive catalogues this month of work by three great contemporary artists: Gideon Bok, John Dubrow, and Euan Uglow. Woo hoo! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photo, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: Bok, Dubrow, Uglow

Ye Olde 808

June 1, 2013 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

empty studio

My cell for two years at 808 has a fresh coat of paint on the walls and floor. It is ready for it's next monk. Goodbye old friend. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photo, Tools, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: 808, studio

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

Three Trees — Final

July 31, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

I returned to this painting mid-month, mainly to work on the lower third. I limited the use of white in color mixes, instead using nickel yellow, which turned out to be just as chalky. I like the way the space in this painting forms a box, top and bottom, front to back. ABOVE: Three Trees, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches (41 x 64 cm), 7/18/12 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: trees, wellesley path

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