Journal Des Muses
An ongoing visual and conversational diary about my work and life as an artist.
Work in Progress. Oil sketch, Volunteer Park. View from south lily pad pond looking north. “Black Sun” is on the right. Oil on Canvas, 8x10.” 2021. I have the painting sitting in an antique frame for now.
I made a few sketches of an area of the park in front of the Seattle Asian Art Museum where there are two ponds of lily pads. Towering above in the center, the monumental "Black Sun" black granite sculpture created in 1969 by Japanese/American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Read More“Terrace Overlook,” Kubota Garden. Oil on Canvas, 4x4.” 2018.
This is a painting of the Terrace Overlook one of the first settings you encounter before you descend down the path into the rest of the garden. The Terrace Overlook was built on ishigaki (stone wall) by Japanese masons from Anoh-shu in 2014.
One of the tenets of traditional Japanese garden design, bridges "are privileged sites in a Japanese garden, where one will linger and take in the beauty of the landscape, watch the carps swimming in their watery elements, and enjoy the softness of the breeze. Bridges may be built of wood, bamboo, earth or stone. Whether they are rounded, arc-shaped or in zigzags, they always remain in harmony with the surrounding nature."
Kubota Garden is one of those cherished sites in the City of Seattle.
Read MoreForget-me-not. Oil on Canvas Paper, 8x10," 2016. (Detail.) M. Lamery
In just a few short weeks, I will be participating in the Northwest Flower and Garden show, February 17-21, at the Washington Convention and Trade Center.
I made a short 41-second video featuring a few of my new paintings I am preparing for the show. I really enjoy making these little videos. I like setting the images to music as a way to express myself through my art.
Read MoreThe calla lily originated thousands of years ago in southern Africa, particularly from the range of South Africa to Malawi and the island of Madagascar. The most common tropical calla comes from the banks of the Nile River in Egypt it is called calla lily, Ethiopian lily, or common calla.
For this painting, I chose to use yellow as the predominant hue in the painting. Yellow is the most luminous of all the colors of the spectrum. It’s the color that captures our attention more than any other color. It’s the color of happiness, and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and spring.
I also made a short little 60-second video showing various stages of creating this painting. I hope that you will enjoy it!
Read MoreI notice as I begin my first blog post of 2016 that I am remembering the pressure to produce a daily painting. Then, I relax and say to myself "this isn't the daily painting. I don't have to finish anything before the dawn of the next day. All I have to do is to write and to share a little of what is going on in my world."
So, here it goes!
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