by Kathy Collins | Apr 2, 2020 | Main |
In her book “The Secret Lives of Color” the author Kassia St. Clair writes that the French impressionists used a lot of purple. Some suggested it was because they spent so much time ‘en plein air’ squinting at the yellow sun that they often had...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 1, 2020 | Main |
Still painting a series of Washington State ferries: but this time I made a change in the composition and decided to write about it. Notice my previous posting which shows a ferry appearing to glide right off the side of the paper. The land form echos this motion,...
by Kathy Collins | Mar 28, 2020 | Main
They say write what you know. Maybe also paint what you know? At home in my studio I pulled out some photos, and one that caught my eye was a Washington State ferry gliding through the San Juan Islands. The ferry looked very small in the photo, yet getting the shape...
by Kathy Collins | Mar 27, 2020 | Main
Before the cloud cover came back to Western Washington, we had over a week of clear skies and spectacular sunrises. This is one of them that I had posted on Facebook. The sky was mostly pink and I wondered if “pink in the morning” meant the same as...
by Kathy Collins | Mar 26, 2020 | Main |
Walking on the Burke-Gilman Trail yesterday, a young birch (?) tree caught my eye. I snapped a quick photo because stopping to sketch on a busy biking route is not particularly relaxing. Later in the Studio I sketched from the photo and painted. Too simple? Maybe. But...
