by Barbara Downs | Nov 30, 2011
Pentimenti – “A painter’s term for the evidence in a work that the original composition has been changed. Often the opaque pigment with which the artist covered a mistake or unwanted beginnings will, with time or injudicious cleaning, become...
by Barbara Downs | Nov 5, 2011
At Open Studios, someone asked me why I don’t paint faces on my figures, which caused me to pause and question myself, “Do I paint faces?” Of course I do! They stare down at me from the paintings on my walls. My figures–and faces–have...