by Barbara Downs | Mar 4, 2021
I’ve finished these pieces for the Pajaro Valley Arts Take Aways: Art to Go! exhibition, April 7 – May 23. More details will be available on their website soon regarding visits to the gallery, but this fundraising show is always full of a huge variety of...
by Barbara Downs | Feb 18, 2021
I’m painting birds again. I’ve drawn and painted plenty of birds before, and written about it too, notably with The Daily Bird. The most salient point I’ve made about birds is that they are one of the few wild animals with which we interact on a...
by Barbara Downs | Sep 21, 2020
I started this blog post several weeks ago about a project I’m doing in response to the pandemic, but that was before California caught on fire and we had to evacuate. Back home again, I’m also back to this project, so it’s a good time to finish the...
by Barbara Downs | Dec 26, 2019
I’ll be in the upcoming show Take Aways: Art to Go! at the Pajaro Valley Arts gallery, January-March 2020. I’ve written before about this yearly show in this blog post, which explains my approach to the work I do specially for this show, so you can read...
by Barbara Downs | Sep 21, 2019
In a moment of surprising forethought and planning when I was in high school, I took some drafting classes because I knew I wanted to study art in college, but I also knew that I needed to earn a living. Why not do drafting as my day job? I liked drawing and the...
by Barbara Downs | May 25, 2019
I finished this piece, Nothing But Blue Skies, some time ago, but I was so busy getting it finished and shipped to Venice for the European Cultural Centre’s Biennale show that I neglected to cover it in my blog at all. I’ll make amends now. Like a...
