My New Mantra, Eating And Painting Local!

My new mantra is "Eating and Painting Local" and I did just that today.  I went to the Fabulous Short North for a painting session early this morning.  I broke for lunch and headed to one of my favorites, TASI's located in Pearl Alley of all places.  They source their food locally, but....The expresso beans for my Latte were from Italy.  Our server was very interested in knowing how it was. 

WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL!

I got a good start on a painting and am hoping the weather will be good next weekend so I can finish. 

Italy In My Own Back Yard

My friend Debra is in Italy having fun painting, eating and making ceramics.  I am enjoying her blog, so..... 

This morning I went to the Worthington Farmer's Market because it is peach time and I needed to have some peaches.  I came home with way more food then we'll ever eat.  Tomatoes, strawberries, blackberries, and my favorite, peaches!!  I fixed breakfast and was eating on the deck.  Inspiration, I'll blog my beautiful local Ohio food - peaches in yogurt, toast and coffee in an exquisite china cup.  Well, the photos didn't work out exactly as I hoped, but here are the remains of the yummy toast and coffee.

 

The jam is by "Sweet Things", and is brandied blackberry.  The owner of "Sweet Things" is local and makes the most wonderful jams.  I don't have a most favorite yet.  I am still tasting.  I do love the chili cherry and the brandied blackberry.

http://sweetthinggourmet.com/

OPENING THURSDAY, JULY 28TH!

Curated by Jane Black from the Dayton Visual Arts Center, the exhibition offers viewers the opportunity to see the rolling hills, wide fields and open skies of this great state through the eyes of 16 Ohio artists.

Join the Riffe Gallery for the opening of Natural Light on Thursday, July 28 from 5 – 7 p.m. Curator Jane Black will lead a tour of the exhibition on Friday, July 29 from noon – 1 p.m.

Artists in the show include: Nancy Achberger (Milford), Jon M. Browning (Columbus), Martha O’Neil Carmody (Cincinnati), Richard Clem (Gahanna), Debra Joyce Dawson (Pataskala), Edith Loechler Dean (Worthington), Mark Gingerich (West Jefferson), Jim Glover (Columbus), Ray Hassard (Cincinnati), Mary R. Holobaugh (Centerburg), Karen Klingbeil LaValley (Westerville), Jack Irwin Liberman (Akron), Paul Reif (Urbana), Mary Ann Sedivy (Newbury), Lori Smith (Mansfield) and Bridgette Turner (Columbus).

The Riffe Gallery will host a free family day workshop, as well as a model painting workshop and poetry reading, in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information visit www.riffegallery.org

The Riffe Gallery is supported by the Ohio Building Authority. Media Sponsors include CD101, CityScene, Ohio Magazine, Time Warner Cable and WCBE

Who Could Pass Up The Opportunity

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to go back to school and use the "big presses". I renewed some old friendships, talked shop and got waited on hand and foot by a new crew of graduate students at OSU. What a fun, but exhausting day. And I created some images I like from a small nocturne that was done in upstate New York.

After a long, long stretch of oil painting it is invigorating to change size and media.

This is 12" x 12" on Rives BFK.  No official title yet.



A Monoprint for a Rainy Spring Day

I think this print evokes the mood of the weather we have been having lately. Kind of gray, overcast with a touch of spring in the yellows and greens. This is on Hosho, 3"x4".