We Are Enough/Solidarity and Survivorship
The October juried exhibition, We Are Enough, was combined with another curated show titled Solidarity and Survivorship at the Oak Park Art League, and I had pieces in both. Both are moving testaments to life and acceptance and harsh realities and celebration, and I...
“Spontaneous” at Gather
I have a show going on until mid-January at the wonderful gallery/community kid art space, Gather, in Evanston, Illinois. It is a show of work I would call spontaneous, in that it is based on the idea of a painting-a-day, and so I spent most of October making...
Acrylic and Mixed Media at the Lighthouse
I have three pieces in the Places & Spaces show at the Oak Park Art League, which runs until June 4. They are all from my residency and all three are mixed media pieces on birch board: I finished these three pieces toward the end of my residency, I guess I...
Watercolors: Part 2
Moving on to individual watercolor paintings, most of which took longer than 30 minutes to complete, and some of which I might frame … As I have mentioned previously, I had the good fortune to meet Shetland artist Peter Davis and see his watercolors up close and...
Watercolors: Part 1
When I started planning for this residency back in August of last year I had some visions of what sort of materials I would use, such as certain colors of acrylic paint (Sepia! Naples Yellow! Turquoise!), my collection of wax crayons and oil pastels, a roll of paper,...Follow Jackie
