My Journey as a 21st Century Artist & Scientist
Went to see Cats this afternoon. Given the scathing reviews by the ‘experts’ we expected an empty theater.. All I can say is I loved it. The dancing was spectacular, It was complemented by incredible staging. At times it was almost visual overload. And OK, this might be shallow but seeing ballet performed by dancers in skin tight costumes was a feast for the eyes. So harrumph to the critics, don’t be swayed by their poisonous hubris, go see Cats!
Tags: theater
The Armory Art Center held the 4th Annual West Palm Beach Art Festival. Plein Air Palm Beach was asked to participate and to invite artists to paint during the event. We had fun time as one can see from these photos.
Tags: Armory Art Center, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Palm Beach, WPB Art Festival
Dear Donna,
Congratulations! I am happy to announce to you that your painting, “Rocco’s Tacos at Night” have been accepted to the Cornell Museum – Spotlight Gallery Show – Magic Hour and Nocturnes.
The show is January 3 – February 1, 2020.
Delivery: Monday, December 30, 2019
Reception: Friday, January 3, 2020 (which coincides with First Friday Art Walk)
Tags: Cornell Museum, Delray Beach Art, nocturnal, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Palm Beach
Delivered Artwork for two exhibits this week. The exhibit at North Broward library is December 4th, 2019 until January 30th, 2020.The following two painting s were submitted for that show. Daggerwing Nature center 8 x 10 acrylic and Bougainvillea in Bloom 9 x 12 acrylic both painted en plein air
The Sugar Sand exhibit in Boca Raton runs from Dec 4th, 2019 to Jan 3rd, 2020. The paintings in that exhibit are Boca Raton Historical Society 9 x 12 acrylic and Old Floresta Neighborhood 14 x 11 acrylic. They were also both painted en plein air.
Tags: exhibition, North Broward Library, plein air, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Palm Beach, sugar Sands
I was at Art on the Square in Delray Beach as the coordinator for Plein Air Palm Beach. Getting the tent setup went smoothly on Friday afternoon, but it was windy cold, and rainy on Saturday. Sunday was a beautiful day. It is great to show off beautiful plein air paintings. Several artist attendees said they had been looking for a plein air group so were happy to get info about PAPB.
I was happy to exhibit some of my paintings and was pleased at the comments I got. Unfortunately this did not translate into sales. Oh well. Here are some of the paintings I exhibited at Art on the Square.
Tags: Art on the Square, artistdonnawalsh, Cornell Museum, Juried, plein air, Plein Air Palm Beach
Lynn Peterson, Brenda Gordon and I went to Nostalgic Delray event representing Plein Air Palm Beach. We painted, listened to music and chatted with attendees. Biggest question we got was “do you teach painting?” I worked on finishing a plein air painting of Old Floresta but also did a quick sketch of the musician on stage.
Last year when I was in Vermont, Plein Air NEK, the group I started in 2014 to find plein air painters up here, worked with the Orleans County Conservation District (OCCD) to put together an exhibit on Conserved Farms titled “Farming: The Art of Stewardship“. I arranged with the help of the OCCD to paint with my group at four different farms that practice conservation on the farms. What a great opportunity and lots of fun.
The exhibit had the opening at the East Side restaurant in Newport, VT, and later traveled to North County High School and finally, just recently, to Greater Barton Arts Center in Barton, VT.
This week there was an opening of the exhibit hosted at Great Barton Arts. A selection of the paintings completed for the exhibit are on display as well as lots of educational information about the farms and the conservation practices. The reception was well attended and PA-NEK is honored to be the first exhibit that GBA is hosting. Unfortunately, it is displayed sandwiched between a old recycled exhibit from 1983 of photography about one room school houses. While more could have been presented in the opening remarks about the conservation on Vermont farms and the art of plein air painting, the reception was more of an excuse to promote GBA and their hopes and dreams.
This summer PA-NEK is working again with the Conservation District as well as Old Stone House, Lavender Essentials and Wonder Arts so stay tuned for some amazing plein air art coming.
Tags: Artist Donna Walsh, Conserved Farms, NEK, Plein Air Painting, vermont
Recently, I’ve done two paintings that feature fire, passion and sadness. The first, “Quell Dommage” was capturing Notre Dame in Paris burning. That incident captured the world headlines and the sadness was palpable as this historic architecture with it’s iconic steeple burnt and fell apart. It will be rebuilt.
The second painting, “Temple of Time Ablaze” started as a plein air painting of the Temple of Time in Coral Springs FL. It was an project designed to help the community heal from the MS Douglas school shooting in Parkland. The building was a place where visitors could leave messages of grief and sorrow. It was designed to be burnt down in a ceremonial fire.
When I first got there to paint and visited the Temple, I was overwhelmed by the grief, sadness and passion of the raw emotions. I really could not even paint as I could not clear my head of impact of this experience. I did do quick sketch and took some photo reference shots.
When I painted it back in the studio, I tried to capture in the ground leading up to the tempe the passion, rage, anger that was evident. Also tried to capture in the flames the hopes expressed within the temple.
This temple will not be rebuilt, but hopefully it helps rebuild the lives of suffering community while the memory of the victims of MSD will be forever in our hearts.
Tags: fire, passion, sadness, temple of time
Ever since I visited Monet’s garden in Giverny France and saw the pond where he painted the waterlilies and saw the installation of the Waterlilies by Claude Monet in Musée de l’Orangerie, I have been enamoured by them. Here is my version, 16 x 12 in acrylic of Monet’s Waterlilies from 1905 which is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. My impression of the Impressionist Claude Monet. I started this awhile ago and it has been fun to “paint in the brushstrokes” of the old master. It was so soothing to paint that can see why he painted them over and over. Let me know what you think of my homage to Monet’s Waterlilies.
Tags: art history, Monet, waterlillies
John and I went on a cruise that had an overnight in Havana Cuba. It was a great trip and was wonderful to visit Old Havana although it is sad to see such urban decay in some otherwise beautiful buildings. I did bring all my sketching supplies with the intent of documenting my travels. I did some practice sketches of buildings before going and studio painting of the same buildings upon returning home.
I did take lots of photos for reference for future painting. And I did do some plein air painting of the NCL private island , Great Stirrup Cay, from the balcony of our stateroom .
Additionally, I did some “plein lazy” painting by projecting a nocturnal image of Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis onto the TV set in the state room from my cell phone. It was great to paint in comfort on an “at sea day”, and my arthritic joints appreciated the “plein lazy” approach.
Tags: Cuba, plein air, Plein Air Painting, plein lazy, travel series
