by Barbara Downs | Mar 30, 2012
1. Wear pants like these (and brushing hair is optional): 2. Wear something that matches your painting (refer to these photos of Claire Thorson, Tom Maderos and I, next to our paintings today):
by Barbara Downs | Jan 31, 2012
What was I thinking yesterday when I wrote, regarding my new large-scale pieces, “This has been satisfying work”?!? That sounds lackluster and ambivalent. I need to recant that statement, and I would like to state… no… exclaim, “This is...
by Barbara Downs | Jan 30, 2012
I’ve been working on some large-scale pieces lately with my painting group. We’ve been working on 6’x9′ unstretched cotton canvas, stapled to the wall. I’m using primarily acrylic paint and gesso, along with various drawing materials. The...
by Barbara Downs | Jan 30, 2012
A bit late, but here are some photos from my open studios in October, in case you were unable to attend. These are my two favorite walls, showing paintings on one and encaustic and sculpture on another. The chair on the wall is titled “Have a...
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...
