How was Emily Carr’s house in Victoria laid out? I know she took in boarders to cover expenses, but in “her" space she hoisted her furniture up on a pully system to have room to paint—but where was that, anyone know, have blueprints? She manages to make BC forests look both tropical and dangerous.

Really love Maria Farmer’s artwork. www.mariafarmerart.com

Alas, I am retiring this page as I reorganize my social media life again. I used to do a brisk business with my art on FB—literally had often sold a piece within a minute of posting it—but it’s been dead here. Don’t know what my plans are at this point beyond this one decision yet… Thanks to all.

Autistic artist wins Turner! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sketchbook, unsure of date, size.

Doubt even Warhol could pull them out of their 3-D printed meat scandal now.

Jennifer Packer’s tender portraits of friends veer between mark-making and stunning specificity. Even if their faces were blurred, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were fully and lovingly rendered.

Napkin and paint on paper. The Fight.

Here’s model Emily Metalskin in her fox fur stole, again a take off on Otto Dix.

After Otto Dix. Model Emily Metalskin. Thinking this is 9x12, and probably I painted it during the early part of this pandemic we’re in. Person with monocle sits craning to look at the camera while seated at small bar table. Martini, cigs, matches. Tones of pink and green.

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How do you feel about your mommy? I had an extremely contentious rel’t with mine. Anyhow, this quick sketch was from a pic I took of her when she turned 40. I’d just turned 17 and was already snap-happy.

After Van Gogh, tricky, time-consuming, made me ask myself how he managed a canvas a day. Talent and skill, of course, having no kids, but how else? I’ve never really known if I believe he was mentally ill.

I love this artist’s work: www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/81-c...

I loved the time at the beginning of the pandemic when artists would build their online sessions in homages to famous painters. This little sketch, which I think is on paper, 9x12”, is from a Tamara de Lempicka session.

She looks so sad, don’t you think? I often think of her life as this sad, I must admit. I went to her house once in Montmartre, only to find its art emphasis completely male, incl featuring her son. She had a little wall to the side mostly of her sketches. Based on a Valadon self-portrait.

Sometimes it’s fun to take on a glum photograph from more than 100 years ago. The mother here was a sister to my great-grandmother, and the children my grandmother’s cousins.

“Childless Cat Ladies…” What could be more appropriate to comment on this regime? Women on a sidewalk with leashes holding black cats in tones of orange, blue and grey.

Photography, done the traditional way. White woman photographer wearing a red shirt, a scarf, and turquoise pedal pushers, leans contemplatively on finned green car. Near brick wall, blue sky in bkgd.

What do you think when you gaze at yourself in a mirror? Are you critical of what you see? After Suzanne Valadon. White woman holding black and white blanket up stares at her refection in a black-framed full-length mirror. Greenery and red curtain to the side. 9x11 acrylic on acrylic paper.

Sunday; not sure how that happened! I always imagined this large board (30x40”) as an underwater or beside a pond image. What do you think?

Another in the autistic masking series. I believe in covid masking, too, and I believe there’s a painting here that shows that in 1918. But autistic masks are metaphorical. What would they look like if we could see them?

Do you have an obasan or granny who looks like this? Would she sit you down with a bowl of food, or is she another type of person? Mine was the second. Although she may have been warm to my siblings, she never was to me.

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What is she thinking, do you imagine?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC-... Haven’t watched but I want to!

I always wonder if Gertrude Stein was ever truly happy as a butch dyke in Paris. Yes, she was well off, relatively, with whacks of freedom compared to most women, and she had what we ID now as a vivid, full life—but was it enough? Maybe she would have preferred not to write in “code?"

Hopscotch! Feel the freedom your young body felt again? Girls hopscotch in blues and yellows. Oil on stretched canvas.

Hopscotch! Feel the kid’s body you once had, and how free it felt to move? Oil on stretched canvas, 20”x20”, for sale

Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone? 20”x20” oil on stretched canvas

Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange dress. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.

Two yt women in 1918 stroll wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas, by yours truly like all my entries here.

In 1969, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, challenging male-dominated art education. It empowered women to explore identity, collaboration, and political expression—reshaping the art world from the ground up. #ArtHistory

Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Oil on stretched canvas, uncertain of size off the top of my head.

Even though the world has been pitched into war, a Sunday painting, one that perhaps expresses where we are now: Do you feel endangered when you see this? I do.

What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up? Oil on board, 20x20”. In tones of muted pinks.

"The primary theme that drives my art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood." This striking Gustav Klimt-inspired painting is by Maryland based artist Tawny Chatmon. #WomenArtists #FineArt #BlackArtists #ArtHistory The Redemption by Tawny Chatmon @tawnychatmon.bsky.social

Acrylic, unsure of size. Man in orange shirt on green bkgd, with beard and purple hair.

It’s Sunday painting time! Here it is: How does this make you feel? I can’t imagine, really, the danger of a kid feeding a kangaroo, even a young one, but I personally would have loved the actuality. Heart sigh. Feel free to share with credit or DM for purchase. 18x24” oil on stretched canvas

I love this painting.

Happy Pride Month to the LGBTQIAP+ community. Throughout Pride month we want to highlight extraordinary LGBTQIAP+ historical figures who align with our values of love, hope, courage, and wholeness.

Sunday painting! Remember the 1950s, the “ladies” out walking their fanciful dogs? (Not where I lived, I can assure you. Where I lived, dogs usually worked at pulling up long garden stakes before going awol dragging these coiled metal snakes along behind them.) 16x20 oil on stretched canvas.

"I paint with the stubbornness I need for living..." Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) French painter #WomensArt

Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

“Mom” by Jordan Casteel (American) - Oil on canvas / 2013 - Cantor Arts Center (Stanford, California) #womeninart #art #mother #oilpainting #womanartist #womensart #femaleartist #ArtText #JordanCasteel #Casteel #CantorArtsCenter #fineart #mom #womenartists #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist

These may not strictly be museum pieces at the moment, I don’t know, but here are a few of my favourite contemporary artists: www.thecollector.com/black-artist...

It changed my paintings from predominantly nude figures to clothed figures when social media got so prudish. Most of my inventory, though, is still figure drawing/painting. I will always love rendering live figures. ❤️

Uploaded another oil painting @hamiltonart.bsky.social. Have a gander!

Another lovely oil painting from last year. 24x30”. Please feel free to share with credit.