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Some Days, You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb

Carol L. DouglasMay 5, 20123 min read
“Loren’s farm,” oil on canvasboard, 12X16  At our last painting session, Marilyn whipped out her grayscale markers (making me instantly regret that I hadn’t brought mine along). The forest was remarkably dark and moody this week, and the spring foliage far less advanced than down on the lake plains, and I was finding it difficult …
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There just might be something to this.

Carol L. DouglasMay 2, 20122 min read
Early spring morning, Piseco Lake, oil on canvasboard, 12X16 Yesterday, I wrote about a Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook that Jamie Grossman gave me, and my first attempt to pre-sketch my paintings in it in watercolor. This morning as I walked my appointed rounds, I carried the sketchbook and watercolors instead of my camera. The …
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Experimenting

Carol L. DouglasMay 2, 20123 min read
Cloud moving in over Oxbow Outlet, Oil on canvasboard, 16X20 I stopped to see my pal Jamie Grossman last week, and we fell into a conversation about sketchbooks. We both use them religiously, but (unlike Jamie) I tend to use the cheapest sketchbooks available and fill them with scribbled notes. Ever generous, Jamie gave me …
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Flailing around

Carol L. DouglasMar 20, 20123 min read
“Spring fever”(figure sketch, oil on canvas, 24X30) Inevitably, someone will ask me, “How long did that painting take you?” This is a question I dread, as it is unanswerable. This figure sketch was done last Saturday and took me about four hours of actual painting time—three hours with the model, and one hour to rough …
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A Child Walks With Jesus

Carol L. DouglasMar 14, 20124 min read
This morning, I was in the sanctuary at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church when I realized with surprise that the Stations of the Cross are on display—well, they would be, since they were made for Lent. (I don’t attend a Lenten-observing church anymore, and the calendar gets away from me.)(If you would like to walk the …