Sarah's Painting Journal

Just a mention that my seagull painting was included in an Etsy Treasury today. This treasury was put together to promote the “Niagara Etsy Artisan Team”. Lots of great talent here, check it out.

From Sarah Lynch

I spend some time worrying about my lack of personal style and I know I am not alone in this, recently a few other bloggers have raised this issue, notably Catherine Jeffrey and Mary Anne Cary.
Robert Genn runs an interesting blog called “The Painter’s Keys”. This week he wrote an article about Claude Lévi-Strauss and [...]

Art doesn’t have to be about anything to be good. In fact, the easier it is to say what a work is about, the less interesting that work becomes. The greatest art takes a lifetime to understand; the slightest takes a moment. And if it really is reducible to an explicit message, is it actually [...]

Am I being impossibly stuffy when I admit that bad spelling drives me crazy? So many of my fellow bloggers seem to make certain elementary spelling mistakes over and over again. I don’t mean typos, which we all make from time to time, or  misspelling of unusual, seldom used words. The ones that drive me [...]

I have been neglecting my Daily Painting recently, partly because I have been up to my ears in House painting. It isn’t as creative but it is very time consuming and very necessary. My house is 140 years old and original clapboard. We ended up re-siding the West wall because there wasn’t a board worth [...]

This is less a post than a question. I seem to be committed to taking part in a Christmas craft show. It is a local event organized by a bunch of Etsy sellers, so it will include jewellers, dressmakers etc. I have never done anything like this before and I find myself at a bit [...]

I have been working in Marketing and Development (fund-raising) for many years and have always been aware of how the mindset of the two disciplines differs. Marketing, and to some degree low-end fund raising, tends to be about being in-your-face. Keep on asking, stay front and centre all the time, sometimes even bombard people with [...]

I am currently rereading David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge. The premise of the book is that painters have been familiar with the use of optical aids since at least the early 15th century and possibly as early as the second. As Mr. Hockney points out, it is only in the last few years that improvements in [...]

My intention with this blog has been to post thoughts, news items and the occasional WIP that I felt wouldn’t be appropriate on my other blog. Recently I have been using Twitter and I think that has kind of siphoned off much of the material that might have appeared here. I seem to be addicted [...]

Who says you can’t grow paperwhites outside in Ontario? They look like paperwhites, they smell like paperwhites, I think they are paperwhites. I must have planted them by accident last year, there were a bunch of left-over bulbs in the shed that I thought I might as well throw in somewhere, and look what I [...]