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Sep 15
7 min

Sandra Pérez: Poetry in Pastel.

"This painting was done one afternoon in late October in a small village called Arroyo Hondo, north of Taos. The sun was beginning to se...

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Lee Murphy: Fine Art and Man-Made Things.

Marjorie Vernelle

Aug 15
6 min

Lee Murphy: Fine Art and Man-Made Things.

On painting: "We are only working on one human sense. Sight. Everything else has to be imagined. I can paint fog, rain, snow, smoke, fill...

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Marjorie Vernelle

Jul 15
6 min

Jess Preble: Outlaws and Ikebana

Jess Preble, the artist who painted this quiet, poetic piece, says a lot about what love is in the portrait of this single flower. Love,...

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Marjorie Vernelle

Jun 15
5 min

Wes Karchut: Art and Craftsmanship.

"Concept. At the heart of every piece is a concept. A concept doesn’t have to be a grand statement. It can be as simple as the juxtaposit...

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Marjorie Vernelle

May 15
5 min

Susan Johnson: Capturing the Spirit.

Just look at him. What a happy character. If he were human, he might be one of the characters at the neighborhood watering hole. You know...

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Marjorie Vernelle

Apr 15
7 min

Michael Baum: Pursuing the Landscape

Looking at a Michael Baum landscape can really take you places. He comments that this painting says "adventure" to him, and he is correct...

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Rita Scafidi: Alla Prima, the Art of the Moment.

Marjorie Vernelle

Mar 15
5 min

Rita Scafidi: Alla Prima, the Art of the Moment.

Alla Prima is an Italian term for painting wet-on-wet. The French are more direct, calling it au premier coup, or a first stroke.

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Marjorie Vernelle

Feb 16
6 min

Ed McKay: An Artist's Journey

The raven looks like he was sent by Edgar Allen Poe as he sits with his claws hooked under the lid of the toy box. Is he just curious? Or...

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Watercolor: Textures and Imagined Realities.

Marjorie Vernelle

Jan 13
3 min

Watercolor: Textures and Imagined Realities.

"...for me watercolor is a kind of break out medium. Like a spillway from a dam or reservoir, it likes to run free, and nothing is better...

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Marjorie Vernelle

Jan 1
2 min

2020 Time to Shake Things Up!

An old pond, frog jumps in, Kerplunk! So goes Alan Ginsberg's translation of Matsuo Basho's famous haiku. A simple act can stir things up.

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The Evolution of the Magi - the Black One.

Marjorie Vernelle

Dec 22, 2019
6 min

The Evolution of the Magi - the Black One.

The actual history goes back a few centuries to a monk with the name Pseudo-Bede who wrote of a dark, fully bearded king named Balthazar.

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Fra Filippo Lippi: The Madonna in the Forest.

Marjorie Vernelle

Dec 8, 2019
5 min

Fra Filippo Lippi: The Madonna in the Forest.

The painting is the Madonna in the Forest, sometimes called the Adoration in the Forest by Filippo Lippi in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

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Winslow Homer: Life and Death Upon the Waters - The Gulf Stream

Marjorie Vernelle

Nov 17, 2019
4 min

Winslow Homer: Life and Death Upon the Waters - The Gulf Stream

This painting is an enigma. Certain things seem evident. The boat is in rough water, the mast is broken, and the sharks are circling.

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Marjorie Vernelle

Oct 27, 2019
4 min

Vanitas: Vanities and Their Bonfires

So in this season of tricks and treats, All Souls Day and the Day of the Dead, remember to live while the living is good, for tomorrow....

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Marjorie Vernelle

Oct 13, 2019
5 min

The Strange Existence of Watercolor.

Oh the pain of being thrown in the art world's dumpster as the medium for dabbling, Sunday painting, and amusements for little old ladies.

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Nocturnes: Remington Paints the Energy of the Night

Marjorie Vernelle

Sep 29, 2019
5 min

Nocturnes: Remington Paints the Energy of the Night

Yes, this is a painting by Frederic Remington, he of the illustrative paintings of the American West full of cowboys, and bucking broncos.

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Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino in the Brancacci Chapel

Marjorie Vernelle

Sep 15, 2019
5 min

Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino in the Brancacci Chapel

If two chefs can't get along in the same kitchen, how can three artists get along painting the same chapel?

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Marjorie Vernelle

Aug 25, 2019
1 min

Vernelle Studio Makes a Change.

Well, it is not the sunset of Vernelle Studio nor the Blog at Vernelle Studio. However, a change is being made. Starting September, there...

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Marjorie Vernelle

Aug 25, 2019
5 min

Piet Mondrian Did What? Flowers!

Oh no, no. This is Mondrian, the neo-plastician of red, blue, yellow, white and black fame, creator of De Stijl, and no pussyfooting around.

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Marjorie Vernelle

Aug 18, 2019
5 min

Native American Wearable Art - Style!

I was fascinated by a buckskin shirt worn by Tashunca-uitco, not realizing that I knew him by another name - Chief Crazy Horse.

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