Disaster. That about sums up the third of Bert Seabourn’s summer classes for this artist. (not pictured here) Last night was our first foray into abstraction – the kind of abstraction that is done by intuitively placing colour and form around a canvas. Cue the horror film music. I already suspected I had an issue with intuitive painting, but this experience confirmed […]
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Canadian Landscape by Radford Crawley, National Film Board of Canada I have been following Canadian History Magazine since I finished the research for my upcoming book on the abandoned house series. Today, they posted this video from Canada’s National Film Board. Watching this video was like discovering buried treasure or a lost art horde; a horde containing the […]
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School’s Out for Summer
I have been painting with Cherokee artist Bert Seabourn for a year now. I had not ever before attempted to paint a face. I did my first painted portrait last Fall. This is a sketch from my last class. It was drawn from a historic photograph. We have done a few of these and the expressions varied widely. […]
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Throwback Thursday ~ Waiting
A vanishing rainstorm left a brisk, penetrating breeze in its wake. The brick house sat blind with its windows shattered or entirely absent, allowing the wind to wander through its rooms unrestrained. A gust moved a loose door, tapping and knocking on its broken jamb. The walls whispered and wailed as the air pushed through the […]
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Paintings, Life – In Progress…
The two paintings here are UNFINISHED. But that’s not the full shame of it. Both were started in another year. The one at the top of the post was started in 2012 and put aside several times throughout the last 2 years. The one at the bottom was started in early 2013. My goal is […]
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Old Fort Reno
Fort Reno – Officers’ Quarters, 16×20, acrylic on canvas ©2013 M.B. Hendry A warm January afternoon sun in Oklahoma can fool this Canadian into believing Spring is just around the corner. Nearly 60F and clear skies made for a great day to visit an Oklahoma landmark – Historic Fort Reno. Fort Reno was at the […]
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