Art by JPL

I take a weekly painting class at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. It's a great class with super talented students and an incredibly wise teacher. It's so fun to go and paint with people who get as excited about mixing colors as I do! And we can all be nerdy about art stuff together. I know my non-artist friends and my husband appreciate that I have people to talk about this stuff with! I'm planning to attend a painting workshop in 2019, details are still be

This semester in painting class we have been working on tackling the portrait. Portrait painting is so difficult and it's not something I practice on my own. I really appreciated the push! We painted from photographs, we copied other artists' work and then did self portraits in their style. We also had a chance to paint from a model! It has been so fun to work with a great teacher and so many great students too. I'm going to miss this class over the summer. For anyone local,

I started a course in March called Abstractify by Tara Leaver. I've made my way through the first week and I am having a blast. I can feel a shift happening in the way I see things and I can't wait to apply this to a new series of paintings!! The course is all about pushing representational art further towards abstraction. What I love about it is that all the exercises start with a photo of something concrete. I have tried painting abstractly without a concrete starting point

In my painting class this fall I have been pushed to start painting with my palette knife. It has been such a great experience! It's so challenging to control the knife that it makes very realistic painting feel impossible - for me, I have seen some insanely detailed and accurate palette knife paintings by other artists! Somehow knowing that I can't get too realistic has really freed me up to focus on gesture and suggestion in a way that I absolutely love. I hope to keep up t