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Category: Painting a Day

  • Karin Jurick’s Museum Hours

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    Who would think that paintings of people with their backs to you could be so compelling? When I first wrote about Atlanta based painter Karin Jurick back in 2006, one of the things I admired, in addition to her bright, fresh, painterly approach, was her series of paintings of art museum patrons, in situ, as…

  • Cherries from Chauvet’s Orchard

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    Ruth Phillips is an English cellist living Provence, France. She is married to Julian Merrow-Smith, an artist I have written about previously. After Duane Keiser, Merrow-Smith is one of the earliest pioneers of the “painting a day” painter/blogger model of creating small daily paintings and offering them for sale over the internet. He also happens…

  • Artist Carol Marine’s house lost to fire

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    Artist Carol Marine, who I have previously featured here on Lines and Colors, has lost her house and studio to the wildfires currently ravaging parts of Texas. The fire devastated their entire subdivision. She and her husband and their son were not harmed, but they were able to take only what they could carry when…

  • Duane Keiser’s Peel

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    I just love this. Back in December of 2004, Virginia based painter and teacher Duane Keiser originated the phenomenon that has come to be known as “painting a day“, in which painter/bloggers paint a small work and post it to a blog each day. He painted a small painting everyday for about two years, and…

  • Justin Clayton

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    I first encountered painter Justin Clayton when I included him in one of my early posts about Painting a Day blogs (and a subsequent post). Clayton has since moved away from the painting a day convention, but still posts small still life, landscape and figurative paintings to his blog on a frequent basis. Clayton’s approach…

  • Karin Jurick (update)

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    When I first noticed Atlanta based artist Karin Jurick, it was from her early participation in the “painting a day” discipline back in early 2006, a then still-young practice among perhaps a dozen or so serious painter/bloggers. I then wrote a dedicated article about her work, noting my admiration for her direct, painterly approach, and…