Mimi Torchia Boothby

Bikes in shadows

I was recently inspired by another watercolor artist’s rendition of bicycles, so I tried painting some again. I tried two different color schemes and two different methods. What do you think? The brown version is 5″ x 7″ I am asking $75.00 for it. The blue version is about 8″ x 10″ and I am…

November 16, 2013

And back to Enza!

I have been painting a lot of postcards lately because of the mail art swaps I have been doing and Enza is the one cat I have that actually enjoys modelling. In the first painting, she poses regally on her red throne. In the second, I roughed her fur up a little to make her…

November 15, 2013

Response to a challenge

My sister suggested I paint my plein aire again from the safety and comfort of my own home. I came up with this, enjoying the orange foliage in the trees.

November 14, 2013

Plein Aire in downtown Seattle

What would you do if someone told you that they would give you $100 if you’d set up an easel and paint pictures outside just long enough to have it recorded forever? Well, I said yes! I was told I had to be at 1st Street and Battery Street at 3:00 pm, so I got…

October 30, 2013

My father as a boy

My father was born in Newark, NJ, in 1920 to two Italian immigrants. The midwife misspelled his name, so instead of being Alfio, he was named Alfredo Luigi Torchia. He was born at home, a first generation American. So much time has passed since his childhood that I realized it would be interesting to try…

October 29, 2013