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Bananas and Blue Napkin

February 26, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Bananas and Blue Napkin, oil on paper, image 6.5 x 8.25 in, (16.5 x 21 cm), 02/19/2009 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, blue napkin, clementine, green apple

Bananas and Teapot

February 23, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Bananas and Teapot, oil on paper, image 6.5 x 8.25 in, (16.5 x 21 cm), 02/16/2009 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, blue napkin, teapot

Green Apple and Bananas

February 20, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Green Apple and Bananas, oil on paper, image 6.5 x 8.25 in, (16.5 x 21 cm), 02/15/2009, SOLD … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, green apple

Book Review

February 8, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty, Beacon Press, 2001 A personal narrative about art, love, life and loss that is equal parts poetry and philosophy. In "Still Life with Oysters and Lemon", a small 17th century Dutch painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem is the catalyst for Mark Doty’s illuminating meditation on intimacy. His layered contemplation of the still life’s ordinary subject — … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: banana, lemon, mark doty, teapot

Bananas and Bureau

February 1, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Bananas on Bureau, oil on paper, image 6.5 x 8.25 in, (16.5 x 21 cm), 01/30/2009 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, blue napkin, bureau, green apple, pear

Still-life with Teapot and Bananas

January 20, 2009 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Teapot and Bananas; gouache, 7 x 9.25 in (17.8 x 23.5 cm), 1/19/09 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gouache & Watercolor, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, blue bottle, clementine, green apple, teapot

Moleskine Drawings

November 29, 2008 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

11/24/08 11/24/08 11/26/08 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: banana, garlic, moleskine, onion

Still-life with Blue Napkin and Coconut

November 17, 2008 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

For a long time, I've been disappointed when my oil paintings did have the dynamic energy of my drawings. In this painting, that convergence is happening. This painting also shows the use of a natural glance for the casual arrangement of objects in the composition. Making gouache copies from master's paintings is proving not only to be fun and engaging but also to have unexpected benefits that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Ink, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: banana, blue napkin, coconut, garlic, green apples

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