Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: plein aire

  • Tom Hoffmann Workshop – El Mercado

    On Tuesday morning of the Tom Hoffmann Oaxaca Workshop, we got up early and headed up the hill, in a direction we’d never gone. Our landmark was a tree. We found a Mercado easily enough, and the sign even said “Mercado Sanchez Perez” but when we asked people where it was, they all pointed in…

  • Garden Plein Aire

    In a little more than a week I am going to Oaxaca, Mexico with 5 other painters to paint en plein aire, which means, paint outside, live. I thought I would try my new setup in my front yard, which is just bubbling with daffodils. My lion, Leo, looks a bit baffled by the light…

  • 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 25 – Sunrise over Lake Washington

    This morning I looked out the window and Lake Washington looked like a pool of molten lava. The sky was kind of dingy, there was a cloud obscuring the pretty colors that were certainly showing somewhere. So I painted it on a lovely piece of Italian watercolor paper. This painting measures 5″ x 7″ and…