The Shy Museumgoer has a new article about painting the night. In this case she comments on the difficulties of portraying the night time without new (1500's) oil paint and techniques. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2026/04/28/nocturne-painting-origins/ I love to go look for other artwork that shares the theme or artist that the Shy Museumgoer is writing about. The National [...]
Off to visit some other writers
... so naturally I forgot to finish my post this morning. Have a nice picture.
May 1 odds and ends…
May 1 is supposed to be some Communist deal, but when I was a little girl we had our own little ritual that was supposed to honor Our Lady at the start of her month. On the first day of May, we went out and picked flowers, tucked them into homemade paper cornucopias, and took [...]
Observing a flower
I bought this bunch of flowers at the farmer's market, and took a silly picture to share with family. It's a terrible picture because I didn't realize I'd need a better one. For example, on the right you can also see some Lego flowers. Ignore them. But if you look closely you can see that [...]
Eye candy for walking …
After all kinds of events, including simply celebrating Easter, I'm trying to return to a normal schedule of exercise. This led me to the entirely motionless activity of finding beautiful pictures of walkways on the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC website. All pictures are in the public domain. I just want to walk into [...]