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Elmo – The Good Point
A few years ago, my coworker asked me to paint his dog. He brought me a lot of photos, but there was not one that I felt I could use as a reference. This month, I tried again. Good dog, you made a good point.
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It’s all about Nick
I work for a large aerospace corporation. Every year they recruit promising bright engineers from all over the world. I have watched them come and go for 30 years now. It’s always interesting to see which ones will leave after a year of Seattle’s traffic, housing prices, and weather; and which ones turn into permanent…
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June – Forever Young
A friend approached me with a request; could I paint his mother. It struck me as being somewhat of an unusual request, until I remembered his mother died when he was a boy. I accepted the commission before I had seen any of the reference photos, because I completely understood the need to bring our…
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Bus Stop
This is painted on a 1/2 sheet of hot press 300 pound watercolor painter. I had the good fortune to be able to use two lovely models for this in the Painting workshop I took last week from Carla O’Connor. This is an imaginary landscape using colors that I love.
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Now I know what it’s like to see my name in the New York Times!
ARTS / ART & DESIGN Obama’s Face Rules the Web By RANDY KENNEDY Published: May 31, 2009 Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among artists. Yes, this is the painting you saw on the front page of the New York Times! Mimi was interviewed by…
Mimi Torchia Boothby
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