New Painting Starts

Yesterday I painted mottled grounds on two prepared cradled boards. I chose a palette inspired by this older work I liked, so I started with pinkish lavender, creamy ivory-yellow and soft greys, then added some wispy lines and a few shapes in a transparent burnt orange. I'm considering working some metallic leaf onto the pieces and glazing over them.

Today I started to create more defined shapes and values, still with a playful, exploring mindset. I don't know where the work is going and I am open to anything. At this stage, I'm just enjoying the creative energy and expressing it in contrasting shapes, lines, and values, without much thinking or analyzing. That will come soon enough.

Now it's a Café con Art

Jeanne Beck Gallery will now display art in Dalai Java Café, its downstairs neighbor. The coffee shop patrons will get to enjoy rotating displays of art each month and the gallery will get street level exposure that will hopefully draw new people up to visit.

Works by Carey Corea. Carey and Connie Ehindero are guest artists. Their exhibition, Liquid Color: Painting with Wax. runs through April 28th. Walk to the back of the shop to the hallway, turn right and go up the stairs to see all the paintings in this wonderful exhibition. .

An interior view of Dalai Java coffee shop in downtown Canandaigua, where I get coffee every day! It was one of the reasons I rented my space upstairs - who wouldn't want to be right above a coffee shop?!

Foodie I Am

I call Monday my rest day, but for me that just means I don't paint. Instead I read about art, work on the computer, do laundry and catch up on emails and social media posts - and sometimes experiment with new recipes.Today I made a Finnish salmon soup called Lohikeitto that we fell in love with on a chilly day in Finland last year. Delicious.