Mimi Torchia Boothby

A salute to Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was a genius. I’ve been studying his work for years. He died in his early 40’s but he achieved so much in that short time. This painting of mine is based on his painting, “Vase with Red Poppies” If you compare the two paintings, you’ll see that all that I took from…

February 25, 2016

Painting outside in February

As part of Tom Hoffmann’s class, we went to the Arboretum yesterday evening. It being February in Seattle, there is only a small window of time where I can stay outside comfortably. I discovered bee boxes and thought it would be fun to paint them. This was a display of old and new; once upon…

February 24, 2016

The Book

Here is an older painting that I did in someone else’s style, just for fun. It measures 8″ x 10″ and is already framed. It represents the comfort that a person can get from The Book. In this painting, it was the Big Book, a nod to Alcoholics Anonymous, which saves lives, and Narcotics Anonymous…

February 17, 2016

More crows… a murder of them?

Today I have a quartet of tiny paintings (1.5″ x 2.5″) for sale. Each portrays a crow with a treasure. Each painting is done on nice watercolor paper with fine Daniel Smith paints done by me. Each is for sale for $25.00, and postage is free. All proceeds go to wild animal conservation efforts.

February 2, 2016

Pair of pups

As part of my exercise in painting things I don’t usually paint, I saw these puppies up for adoption from a Quincy, Washington animal shelter (last I heard one was already adopted) and I considered what a composition of both of them together would look like. I’m not used to painting puppies, particularly black ones,…

January 26, 2016