Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: landscapes

  • In Georgia O’Keeffe’s shadow – Pedernal

    I had the opportunity to sit and paint surrounded by the landscape that Georgia O’Keeffe loved, at her Ghost Ranch. We sat under a big tree in Adirondack chairs and the mesas lay in front of me, clothed in brilliant light and shadows. The clouds all by themselves were an incredible show. This mesa is…

  • Morning shadows in my yard

    One of the things I am really trying to learn is how to paint depth with light, intensity and shadow. My house faces to the west so in the morning, things are shady until the sun creeps in slowly. Here you can see deep shadows, with the sun kissing the tips of the rhubarb flowers.…

  • Dawn

    Dawn. The most promising time of day. A new day, a beginning. Hope. Sometimes here in Seattle, dawn is kind of monochromatic. What does this mean? It’s going to rain? or out of the mist the sun will appear? This particular dawn was curious because all the light seemed to be coming from the lake.

  • Painting in the garden

    This time of year my garden is a riot of color. After several attempts at trying to capture the blue woods hyacinths which fill the whole yard with fragrance, I did a study of just them and I was finally able to get a color that evokes what they look like in my yard. There…

  • Oaxaca Street

    The most exciting plein aire experience I had in Oaxaca was this one. We were left to our own devices on a narrow street without an actual sidewalk. The only thing keeping me from getting taken out by cars was this telephone pole between me and the cars… It ended up being a nice painting…