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, 20205 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...
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Marjorie Vernelle
May 15, 20206 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...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Apr 14, 20208 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Mar 15, 20205 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 15, 20206 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Jan 13, 20203 min
M. Vernelle: Textures and Imagined Realities in Watercolor.
"...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, 20202 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Dec 22, 20196 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Dec 8, 20195 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Nov 16, 20194 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 26, 20194 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 12, 20195 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Sep 29, 20195 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Sep 15, 20195 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 24, 20191 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 24, 20195 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, 20195 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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Marjorie Vernelle
Aug 10, 20195 min
China: When the Emperor Was a Painter
As an artist, the lives of artists in other cultures has fascinated me, especially so when I think about the painters of Imperial China.
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Marjorie Vernelle
Aug 4, 20196 min
My Name Is The Miniature
I wish I could truly say, "My Name is the Persian Miniature" but I am not Orhan Pamuk. I will just tell you what I know.
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