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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: April 2015
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Lilacs in a Window. Mary Cassatt, 1879. Up now at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. No problem for me- the subject matter is not so important, because. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Please join me for this annual event! Friday, May 1st, 2015. 6 pm to 9 pm. Find me on the Third Floor- Studio #35. 118 E Kingston Avenue, in Charlotte's SouthEnd. Available for sale. Live music. Beverages and nibbles. What's not to love? See more paintings on my website,.
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: July 2015
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Monday, July 27, 2015. All Roads Lead to Rome. Pont Julien (photo (c) Lesley Powell). I wrote in my last post about how the Romans left a lasting mark on the landscape of Provence. It seems that I cant get away from the Roman theme- this time I am writing about the stone bridge called Pont Julien, which was built by the Romans. It is between modern day Bonnieux and Roussillon. Maggie Siner. Oil on Canvas, 11 x 18. C) Lesley Powell, 2015. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Lately I ha...
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: July 2014
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. 13 x 7, oil on linen. C) Lesley Powell 2014. During the recent workshop with Maggie Siner. We painted inside one of the beautiful perched villages of Provence. These ancient villages- with their steep cobbled streets, odd shaped buildings, beautiful old facades, and cheerful window boxes- present a number of intriguing painting motifs. Such a feast for the eyes! It can be difficult to narrow your focus. Saturday, July 26, 2014. C) Lesley Powell 2014.
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: Ochre
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Ochre Cliffs, Roussillon, France. C) Lesley Powell 2014. I have recently returned from France, where I visited the village of Roussillon for the first time. Roussillon's claim to fame is its fabulous colored soils, which for decades supplied the entire world with ochre pigments. In fact, it was a scientist from Roussillon, Jean-Eteinne Asteir, who. Developed the process back in the 1780's for making ochre pigment from the soils of his native region.
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: May 2015
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Sunday, May 31, 2015. All Photos (c) Meredith Lincoln, 2015. A friend of mine just visited Madrid, and spent some time at the Sorolla Museum. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that I am a great admirer of the Spanish Impressionist painter Joaquin Sorolla. I have long wanted to visit the museum that was once his home, and I was thrilled with the photos my friend sent me from her visit. I immediately wanted to share them with you! Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: February 2015
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Friday, February 27, 2015. Oil on cardboard, 42 x 48 cm. Felix Vallotton, 1899. This week I was thumbing through my catalogue from a retrospective of the works of Felix Vallotton. Vallotton (1865-1925) painted in France, and was a member of the Nabis. I have written before. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Because good composition depends on placement of shapes, and you cant place your shapes if you have not. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. What's Your Focal Length? Writes that a key ...
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: December 2014
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Monday, December 29, 2014. New Year, New Exhibit. Table, Chair and Tray. Oil on linen, 28 x 30. C) Maggie Siner, 2014. What better way to start the New Year than seeing a solo exhibit by the talented Maggie Siner. Maggies new show opens in Richmond, VA, on January 2nd, at the Brazier Gallery. There is an opening reception at the Gallery that evening- now thats a way to start the year off with a bang! Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Photo (c) Lesley Powell, 2014. About Hoppers ...
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: Villages in the Vaucluse
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Villages in the Vaucluse. C) John Graham, 2015. Painting architecture can be quite difficult. So many perspective lines, so many opportunities to go wrong! Conventional wisdom tells us that if an architectural element is wrong, the viewer feels immediately off balance and knows something is amiss. Nonetheless, the villages of Provence turned out to be favorite motifs for the painters in our recent workshop group. (True confession:. C) Aeron Mack, 2015.
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel: Wait Until Dark
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Lesley Powell: From my Easel. Saturday, August 1, 2015. C) Maggie Siner, 2015. During the recent workshop in France. Our fearless leader, Maggie Siner. Urged us on to work well into the nighttime. A full day of painting was not enough- the evening beckoned with nocturnes! Some of the most lovely and original work of the week came during these evening painting sessions. The top photo is one of Maggie's nocturnes, painted in the little hamlet where we stayed. Fantastic! Nobody does it like Maggie! The pain...
