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Start Your Visual Journal
Recently I’ve talked about drawing and painting in a journal. I keep a visual journal because language and image combine in mysterious ways. I use my journal(s) to observe the…
Black Mountain Depot
Black Mountain Depot 12x12 inches Acrylic on gallery wrap canvas ©2019 Lucinda Howe Autumn is prime time for plein air painting in the Carolinas. The weather is pleasant, and the…
Painting on the Causeway
From the Causeway 12x12" Acrylic on watercolor paper ©2019 Lucinda Howe Ft. McAllister State Park is along the banks of the Ogeechee River and Redbird Creek in Georgia. The creek…
Back to Bugville
After working in my studio this summer while the weather was so hot, it was a pleasure change gears and do some plein air painting. Last week I traveled to…
A Room with a View
Happy Tuesday. I'm a little late with my post this week because I've spent most of the last week with my parents in North Carolina. My father has been in…
Making Progress
In my last post, I was working on several things without finishing anything. Since then, my husband and I took a few days for our annual warm weather vacation. I…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern in New Mexico
Last week I wrote about seeing “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” at Reynolda House Museum. This is part 2 of the series. There have been many exhibits of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
Last week I had the pleasure of seeing an exhibition called “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” at Reynolda House Museum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The exhibition explores how O’Keeffe’s modernist aesthetic…
Quebec City
The second part of Jane LaFazio's watercolor sketching class was in Quebec City, Canada. After a cool, wet spring, the weather warmed up the week we arrived. The tulips were…
Where the Sun Sets in the North
When I arrived in Canada, I took a taxi from the airport. The cab driver said nothing for most of the trip and drove quickly and carefully on the…