A few people are posting on Facebook about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which happened twenty years ago, so I wrote the following at a Note to post there, but also thought I’d share my memories here of that amazing point in history and our trip to Germany the following year.
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I and my husband, [...]
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Memories of Germany A Year After The Wall Came Down
Posted in The Artist, Travel, tagged Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Germany on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sketching In New York
Posted in Drawings and sketches, The Artist, Travel, tagged city sketching, Greenwich Village, New York, sketching on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I just got back last night from a two-day trip to New York. One day was taken up with the Society of Animal Artists board meeting (of which, more later) and the second day with wandering around Greenwich Village sketching and then hitting some jazz clubs in the evening with fellow artist Guy Combes, who [...]
New Painting Debut; and the Big Argali Painting, Part 3
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Writers of fiction say that they will have a story all plotted out, but sometimes the characters take control and things go off in unexpected directions. That’s more or less what I feel happened with the painting below. I wanted to do a big argali, because, well, I just needed to do it. About halfway [...]
Come Visit My Facebook Fan Page!
Posted in Making a living, The Artist, The Business of Art, tagged SusanFoxArt Facebook fan page on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having hit the 100 fan threshold (the count is 137 as of this morning), I was able to register a unique URL for my fan page. It’s at www.facebook.com/SusanFoxArt
The Big Argali Painting, Part 2
Posted in Mongolia, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, argali mountain sheep, argali painting, Mongolian argali on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we last left the big argali painting (36×40″), I had worked through the composition and drawing. You can read that post here.
I finally got back to it this week. The first step was to use the good old grid system to transfer the drawing in pencil. Then I restated and refined it with a [...]
Field Sketches/I’ll Be At Pastels On The Plaza Tomorrow
Posted in Drawings and sketches, The Artist, Travel, tagged animal drawings, animal sketches, Arcata, field sketches, Indian rhino drawing, Northcoast Children's Services, Pastels on the Plaza, Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure, transcaspian urials on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going back to my two-a-week posts. Mongolia Monday will start up again on, um, Monday, along with my eBay auction listing. Fridays and whenever the spirits moves me will be everything else: paintings in progress, etc.
Here are some recent pages from my sketchbook. They are done with whatever fine point liquid gel pen Staples [...]
A Special Visit to the American Museum of Natural History
Posted in Environment/conservation, Mongolia, North America, Paintings and process, The Artist, Travel, Wildlife, tagged American Museum of Natural HIstory, dioramas, Flaming Cliffs, fossil dinosaur eggs, fossils, protoceratops, taxidermy on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was one of a large group of artists in attendance this past weekend at the opening of the Artists for Conservation juried show “The Art of Conservation”, which is at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New Jersey. There were two full days of activities planned for us and we made the most [...]
Four New Paintings!
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Mongolian Culture, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, bighorn sheep, equine art, horse art, Khomiin Tal, Mongol horses, Mongolia, Przewalski's horse, takhi, wildlife painting, Yellowstone National Park on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are four more new paintings to go with the two I posted last week. I had a problem with the background in the last one and thought I’d show how it was and how I changed it.
Here is one of the takhi (Przewalski’s horse) that I saw when I was at the Khomiin Tal [...]
Bernie Fuchs, one of the Best Illustrators Ever (1932-2009) RIP
Posted in Inspirations, The Artist, tagged Bernie Fuchs, Illustration, Mark English, Robert Peak on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nationally known artist Jeremy Lipking posted this link on his Facebook profile today, which is how I found out that Bernie Fuchs has died. He, along with Robert Peak and Mark English, were three of the absolutely top illustrators of the mid to late 20th century. Peak died a few years ago, but I recently [...]
Two New Paintings!
Posted in Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged morning light, White-tailed deer, greylag goose on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m applying (for the third time; I’m nothing if not persistent and it does pay off in the end) for a major juried show which requires work 9×12″ and smaller. So that’s what I was doing last week and this week- four to six small paintings that will form a decent, cohesive body of work. [...]
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