Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: biographical

  • 14 – my valentine

    If you are lucky, you will have one of these (a true love) for part of your life. I was. This is a sketch of my husband with his wonderful uproarious smile. This could turn into loud laughter in an instant. This smile makes me smile every time I see it. The smile is the…

  • Gigapixel Artzoom project or 5 more seconds of fame.

    What happens when you get some super Microsoft nerds and 100 artists and you let them make a computerized map? The map, which they are calling the Gigapixel Art Zoom project, is now on line. You can zoom the camera in and out in every direction, and if you are careful, you can find artists…

  • Day 26 – His sandals

    A lot of the people in the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge have been painting different sorts of shoes, so I thought I would paint my husband’s sandals. He loved them so much he bought two pairs after the first pair wore out. Then he lost one of them, so for years, he had…

  • Day 21 – Tino on Beacon Hill

    In January, this is as close as you get to “plein aire” out of me. I painted this while looking out my front window. The sun is rising behind me so you can see reflections of the light. Tino is my red Honda fit, one of the last gifts that Donald gave me. Tino is…

  • Day 19 – My Favorite Mug

    Besides doing a painting a day this month, I am spending almost every day at the pottery studio in Seward Park. I have taken over 300 pounds of clay in the last year and turned most of it into dinnerware. That’s right, mugs, bowls, casseroles. I am a better painter than potter, the learning curve…