Laraine Armenti

student of painting

Website Changes Complete

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Recent revisions to this website are complete. There is now a single location that combines both the blog and the former website, the first website was designed using static HTML pages, at one address: https://www.larainearmenti.com. If you have links to the previous blog, please use this new address. The blog scroll is now the HOME page of this site. To reach HOME from other pages, click on … [Read more...]

Upcoming Site Changes

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A series of incremental changes are being made to this blog. Some of the changes will be seamless. Others may break the connection for subscribers and email readers. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. This note is meant to help readers find the site in the event of a problem. The blog's URL address will change. The new address will simply leave off the word "blog" at the end to … [Read more...]

January 2011 Review

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Sorting a few year's worth of work in January had the benefit of revealing links among disparate media in ink, graphite, gouache, and oil painting. With a new set of photos, I completed two applications that may yield opportunities later in the year. The photographs are also part of an evolving restructure of this blog, collecting work into categories under tabs at the top of the page. Investing … [Read more...]

Website Design Note

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The following website design changes have recently been made. Images published as RECAP blog posts are now located in the TABS sections, located above in the web page navigation. While working on this reorganization, unintentional emails may have been generated automatically. I apologize for any annoyance this may have caused. … [Read more...]

Broadmoor

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One of many considerations for outside painting is choice of location. From the beginning the rough beauty of nature appealed to me as a subject, perhaps motivated by countless childhood hours spent on long, solitary walks in the woods. Most of these places were paved over in my lifetime. Is it nostalgia for what once was that attracts me to remnants of farms, rivers, and fields? Or mourning … [Read more...]

Holliston Open Studios

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There was plenty of positive energy, gorgeous New England fall weather, and a steady flow of visitors at the Holliston Open Studios last weekend. Many thanks to the Holliston Mill artists for a well organized and publicized event, and for their commitment and generous spirit of reaching out to include guest artists. ABOVE: Display wall, Holliston Open Studios Oil on linen mounted panel … [Read more...]

ANE / Bennington — Week 1

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Week 1, continued. These pictures are hand-held snap-shots of the last two paintings done during a one week independent study offered by the Art New England / Mass Art workshop program at Bennington College, Vermont. ABOVE: Scone and Rose, oil on paper, 5.5 x 9.5 inch (14 x 24 cm), 07/23/2010 EE:  "Category bending: still-life as landscape." PY to EE:  "They're doing baked goods; watch … [Read more...]