Friday, April 17, 2015

Scarlet and Gold, 11x14 Oil on Canvas, Portrait of Woman in Red by Carmen Beecher



All that glitters is not gold, sometimes it's gold oil paint. I was so seriously studying landscape painting until I unscrewed the top of my gold paint. That started a chain reaction, and this week I am going to see the movie about a stolen Klimt painting, so the fires will be stoked again. I want to get back to the Roaring Twenties too. So many ideas, so little time...

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