Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: portrait

  • RAMROD – 2009

    RAMROD stands for Ride Around Mount Rainier in one day. It is the Pacific Northwest’s premiere one-day hardcore cycling event. It combines the incomparable scenery of Mount Rainier National Park with a challenging course featuring 10,000 feet of climbing over 152 miles. It is THE ride to finish, it gives you bragging rights forever. My…

  • Hey Mom! – portrait commission – take one.

    Sometimes I paint a face three or four times before the final portrait is done. The young lady’s mother sent me many photos and this is the image I painted from the one I liked the best. It is bright and interesting, and fun too. They came to my house for an actual sitting, so…

  • Inexorable force of nature – composition crash course workshop

    I attended a nice workshop today taught by Anne Lewis called “Crash Course In Composition” at the Gage school in Seattle. We started out cutting out black construction paper circles, we were armed with scissors, x-acto knives and glue. We felt like we were in kindergarten again, it was freeing and pleasant. We did a…

  • Peter, an Italian cat – commission

    Just finished a commission on a lovely brown tabby cat who lives a great life in a large walled in yard in Italy. Peter is a very friendly cat, having wiggled his way into the hearts of his people. The trick with this portrait is that it had to be opposite a portrait of their…

  • Glory of the Sun – the Sunflower

    When Donald Boothby was a very young man, he discovered gardening. He was introduced to it by his foster parents Butch and Sonna Pankey, but when he got out of the service he moved to Boise and planted a great garden full of peppers, tomatoes, corn, and sunflowers. He took pictures of his garden, and…