Sold another shower curtain. This time it was the Tiffany bamboo panel. It gives me such joy to know that my Tiffany in watercolor can bring beauty into someones everyday life.
Tags: artistdonnawalsh, home decor, Tiffany
I’ve always wanted to go to Tuscany and this summer I will get the chance. John and I will spend three days in Florence and then visit Barga Italy in northeast Tuscany. I have romantic notions of John and I visiting the birthplace of the renaissance, eating Tuscan food and drinking Tuscan wine.
After three days in Florence we will drive northeast to Barga, a medieval town that is an artist colony. There the plan is to enjoy the Tuscan life while painting the beautiful landscape known for it’s magnificent light. I have a friend who I know from Naked Wines who has invited us to stay with her for a bit. I want to paint her a painting as a gift so I started to get int the mod by painting the above painting of Barga with the Alps as the backdrop. Since ‘light was the star’ I decided to use the painting the light method of the Cape Cod School of Art as described by Lois Griffel in her book “Painting the Impressionist Landscape”
This has certainly peaked my interest about the trip and am looking forward to it even more.
Tags: Italy, Plein Air Painting, travels, Tuscany
Sold Another of my most popular design –
Creating these Tiffany in water was originally a fluke. I did them as I was preparing fr teaching and I thought this design was too complicated for my students in a two hour class. So I did it just for fun. Never did I expect that the printing of the design on shower curtains would take off. Not that I;m complaining. I love it everytime I get an email saying “you sold another shower curtain.” Check it out athttps://www.cafepress.com/+frank_memorial_window_shower_curtain,873880195
Tags: Artist Donna Walsh, Donna's Art for Everyone, Tiffany, watercolor
As a contributing member artist of PAPB, I am participating in the exhibit
“Painting Paradise” The opening exhibit was Sunday, March 10, from 2-4 pm at the Schuman Museum Gallery at the Boca JCC. Here are some images of some of the artists with their artwork as well as the poster with more info about the exhibit that runs until April 30, 2019.
Tags: exhibition, JCC, Paradise, plein air, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Palm Beach
Went to Plantation today to paint the bougainvilleas. Me and my fellow plein air painting buddies were at the Deicke Auditorium and across the street there was a hedge of bougainvilleas that were in bloom. so much fun to be outside before it gets hot and just painting beauty.
Tags: Art, artistdonnawalsh, bougainvillea, plein air, Plein Air Painting
PAPB decided to accept the invitation to Garlic Fest. The management of Garlic Fest decided to have an ‘Artist Row’ and about 10 diverse artists or groups were invited to participate. We set up our tent and were painting around the grounds. While I was there I painted the PAPB tent. It was fun but not really a good venue for finding art collectors. .
While it was worth the effort to see how it went, and those of us there enjoyed the artist camaraderie, it was more of a drinking crowd than an art buying crowd. On top of that although we had preferred parking as vendors, it was still a half mile walk and there were no accommodations for handicap. My arthritis reminded me that this is not something I should think of doing again.
Tags: Art, Artist Donna Walsh, Garlic Fest, Plein Air Painting
Despite the rain on Friday, some beautiful paintings were done and we still had fun the whole weekend. Thanks to our partner Old School Square, all our sponsors and volunteers.
The banner inviting collectors 
Marilyn ready to paint 
Lunch after painting in the rain 
Artists relaxing in Hospitality Suite 
Boynton Uke Society plays during reception. 
Brenda Gordon’s !st Place Painting
Tags: Delray Beach, Old School Square, plein air, Plein Air Palm Beach, Plein Fun Fest
I lead a group on Fine Art America, also known as Pixels for plein air paintings. I just updated the image submissions and was impressed with the beauty of our natural world expressed by plein air painters. Take a look.
https://fineartamerica.com/groups/plein-air-painters–all-painting-media.html
On Thursday, October 4th John and I went to the opening celebration of the Cornell Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Tech Effect. The promo for the exhibit says
ABOUT TECH EFFECT From Brian Dettmer’s sculptures composed of melted-down cassette tapes to Antoine Geiger’s manipulated photographs of smartphone users being literally sucked into their devices, the technology of yesterday, today and tomorrow continues to inspire artists worldwide. “Tech Effect,” running Oct. 5 2018-Feb. 17, 2019 at the Cornell Art Museum, surveys 22 artists reflecting on the way technology impacts our lives and their art, or vice versa.
I thought it was an interesting exhibit and it certainly attracted a young tech savvy crowd. I describe myself as an Artist/Scientist and certainly technology has been a main theme in my working career. Generally I find artists the least tech savvy of the general population. And while this was evident in this exhibit to some extent and some of the artwork was very pedestrian, there were also some very clever ideas of fusion of art & technology. I particularly enjoyed the digital prints of fractals and photography and the 3d printing of sculptures that were later fired in kiln. This is my opinion is a beautiful fusion of art and science. Since art always reflects society, there was a lot of art that was social commentary, like to effect of smartphones on ones focus of attention. I was pleased to attend and plan to stop by again to take a closer look.
Tags: contemporary art, Cornell Museum, technology
After joining the Bryan Gallery in Jeffersonville I decided to take a plein air workshop by Eric Tobin offered through the Bryan Gallery. It was a lot of fun, met some great artists and I learned some things. Here are some pics from the workshop and the paintings I did during it.
