Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Pictures of my friend's lazure painted house




Back in May, my friend Becca decided to paint some of her walls with a lazure technique which produces walls of very light pastel color with a luminous quality. It involves diluting paint many times with water and applying several coats over time to the wall with a special brush. The light will catch the color different ways depending on the angle you are looking from. There's a much better description on the websites I found through Google, such as: http://www.lazure.com/
http://www.lazurepainting.com/
http://www.lazurebylogsdon.com/

These websites have beautiful pictures of the work of these lazure artists, so check it out if you can.

The lazure painting technique is used widely in Europe to add a healing atmosphere to hospitals, etc. as well as to bring relaxation and creativity to Waldorf Schools and business conference rooms and, and of course, to bring charm and a meditative quality to bedrooms and other rooms in private homes. (My friend actually had it done mainly in her living room, front hall, and dining nook. She used yellow, green, blue, rose/crimson, and purple for beautiful effect.)

More photos of her house can be seen at my Flickr webpage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauradeanne (also see Links to the right)

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

summertime photos


This is Esperanza and me. She is a friend of mine, actually niece to a friend. We are having a good time visiting at her aunt's office at the University of Texas.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Artists talk about where to show their work

Artist Robert Genn's "click-backs" on his last week's newsletter on Context -
This particular newsletter is about deciding where to show your (art) work and what kind of response you might get. Many artists from all over the country (and the world) responded and he posted their responses on his website at http://clicks.robertgenn.com/context.php.

Wonderful - the feedback I read from all these artists. Gave me great insight into how they view their work and the type of decisions to be made in doing artwork that you want to sell.