AVAA’s 35th Anniversary Show
Thursday, February 2nd is the Austin Visual Artist Association’s 35th Anniversary Exhibition at the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin. My two paintings “A Festive Spirit” and “Sunflowers and Cantaloupe” are in this juried show. I’m sure I’ll see old AVAA friends at the reception.
Beneath the Blue
Beneath the Blue, or The Mermaid Show, begins January 20, 2012 with a reception from 5 til 8 at Salado Winesellers. I have three paintings in this show, with five other women artists.
Mermaid Show in January
The painting I’m calling “Moonlit Mermaid” is almost finished in my studio. I started this one with acrylic, then glazed several layers of transparent oil paint over the figure, followed by darker glazes over the blues in the water.
A silver leafed moon further enlivens the surface of this cool colors painting. It’s destined for The Mermaid Show in Salado, Texas in January. I like it!
SPUNC Exhibition in Temple
The SPUNC Show at the Cultural Activities Center in Temple, Texas showcases artwork by six full-of-spunc women. My “Flowers and Lila” oil painting shows up well in the light in the Upstairs Gallery. This show runs through mid-December.
Oil Painters of America Paintout
This year’s Oil Painters of America plein air paintout at The Oasis at Lake Travis brought some rainy skies and close values. My painting of the lake includes the big sandbars that appeared this year, and Mansfield Dam and water towers, plus the lighthouse at Lakeway, in the background.
Published!
Today the multi-talented Linda Scott brought me a copy of the newly-published book entitled “The Crossroads,” by author Mattie D. Turner.
The front and back covers of the book feature one of my landscape paintings, “A Path Nearby,” painted near where I live and work. So happy the painting’s bright colors show up so beautifully!
Le Creuset Painting This Weekend
Le Creuset was the site of my weekend painting excursion this Labor Day weekend. Today a lady from Temple won my painting, “Tea Time.”
Rocky Mountain National Park Painting
This week I’m painting in Rocky Mountain National Park and staying in a cottage in Estes Park, Colorado. It’s gorgeous here!
Artists-in-Action Rocks Salado
This weekend two events rocked the Village of Salado. The reception for artists at Salado Wine Sellers on Friday night was well attended and fun for those of us who were exhibiting, and the Artisis-in-Action paintout on Saturday brought in more wine lovers and art patrons.
Workshop News
We’re in the midst of a late-July workshop with Peter and Cynthia from Kerrville this week at the Round Rock studio. Several wonderful paintings are sitting around the floor and leaning against easels.
My demo today was suggested by Cynthia. We set up a simple still life, and here is the result. We like it!
In the News! Read “Artistic Passion” in Focus on Round Rock
July 14, 2011
Today the Focus on Round Rock magazine’s July/ August 2011 issue went out to 33,000 residences and all businesses in Round Rock. The article inside entitled “Artistic Passion” features my artwork and information about me [download article - PDF]. This is my year!
July 4, 2011
I’m in Tennessee, visiting relatives and friends. It’s so green here, and I love the tall trees. I will paint a Tennessee landscape when I return to Austin…
June 14, 2011
The Ann Templeton landscape painting workshop this week at Wenmohs Ranch was awesome. I painted two landscapes, received critiques from Ann, bought her first day’s demo, and got her to sign my copy of her book, “The Art of Ann Templeton.”
June 6, 2011
“Focus on Round Rock” magazine interviewed me today for a feature article in the upcoming July 2011 issue. Soon their photographer will be here, too! I can hardly wait to see the interview in print…
May 27, 2011
The Zhaoming Wu figure painting workshop in Austin this week was awesome! Great painter, great instructor, fabulous experience and opportunity to paint with a Master of contemporary figurative work. Lucky me!
May 14, 2011
Today I am gallery sitting at Artisans in Taylor, Texas. Two of my oil paintings appear in this photo, taken inside the gallery. The oil painting at the top is “Chameleon,” almost a monochrome, with added color in interesting areas.
The small book on the left shows a young Indian girl on the front cover, painted in oils. It has blank pages inside and a gold leafed back cover.
May 8, 2011
A small oil painting of a landscape that I was painting with two of my teenaged students turned out to look like this. I like it.
May 2, 2011
Today my solo show at the Round Rock Public Library is going up. The show runs the entire month of May.
May 1, 2011
The Austin Visual Artists Association is hosting the 34th Members Show at Austin Art Space on May 14th. I delivered the painting “Three Women” to the Art Space this weekend, and I’m looking forward to the show.
April 26, 2011
What a wonderful trip to Fort Worth with friends the past two days. Visits to the Kimball Art Gallery, the Fort Worth Stockyards, and great food and shopping—
This Chinese Calligraphy poem is still in the Austin Association of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Exhibition at the Austin Public Library, and will be displayed until April 28th. On that day, I will retrieve it from the show and bring it to my s
tudio to display.
April 23, 2011
This is Ms. Yang and me. Ms. Yang is my Chinese Calligraphy teacher at the Austin Great Wall Chinese School, where I teach Art III each week.
April 19, 2011
The “Poppies with Patricia” class at Artisans was super-cool…..everyone completed an acrylic poppies painting, and all the paintings were very different.
April 17, 2011
Being the featured artist at Georgetown’s Red Poppy Festival means signing lots of posters and t-shirts this weekend. The t-shirt fits well!
April 16, 2011
This weekend is the Georgetown, Texas 2011 Red Poppy Festival. Yesterday I delivered paintings and accompanying stuff to the Visitors Center, and today and tomorrow will be fun signing posters showing my poppies painting, talking with friends, and making merry. Here’s another poppies painting. This one is in a show at Abbey’s in Georgetown.
The View, April 2011 Article
The View Article pdf The View magazine’s April 2011 issue contains an article about me as Featured Artist of the Georgetown 2011 Red Poppy Festival.
April 9, 2011
The Austin Association of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition opened today, and the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was lots of fun and laughter! I felt wonderful being included in this group of all Chinese (except me) group of calligraphers and painters.
April 6, 2011
It was a fun evening last night. As the featured artist for this year’s Georgetown Red Poppy Festival, I was asked to make a presentation to the Williamson County Art Guild at The Windberg Center. Some of the artwork and features of my website were projected on a screen, and questions from Guild members kept the pace lively. Thank you Guild members!
April 3, 2011
It’s great being the featured artist for the 2011 Georgetown Red Poppy Festival. I am having so much fun giving away posters with my “Red “Poppies” painting on them, and enjoying my “15 minutes of fame,” to quote Andy Warhol.
The View magazine just published an article about me in their April issue, the Williamson County Sun newspaper ran an article and color photo, and my ad appears in Focus on Georgetown magazine’s April issue. On Tuesday night, I’ll give a presentation to the Williamson County Art Guild, and I’m teaching a workshop on “Poppies with Patricia” at Artisans Gallery in Taylor on April 22nd. Hang on tightly!
March 29, 2011
“Square” is up and running on my iPhone…now I can accept credit cards for my paintings, classes, workshops, and most anything else that people want to buy from me or my studio. Square rocks!
March 28, 2011
Here I am at the Austin Great Wall Chinese School again, where I teach Art III class and also take a Chinese Calligraphy class on Sunday afternoons.
Ms. Yang, who teaches our calligraphy class and speaks no English, has invited me to place one of my Chinese Calligraphy pieces, an ancient poem in ancient script, in the upcoming exhibition of the Austin Calligraphy and Chinese Painting Association. I am thrilled to be included in this exhibition.
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March 24, 2011
Today I’m painting three donkeys. My friend Donna thinks it should be named “Heads Up.”
March 18, 2011
“Lone Star” is finally finished today and drying in the studio. This longhorn painting began as a photo of one of the two bulls in the field in front of TECO-Westinghouse in Round Rock. This guy is young and full of himself! 
March 15, 2011
Today another red poppies oil painting, which began as a demo for a local art group, was finished in the studio. It is destined for a show in Georgetown in April.
March 13, 2011
Today is Chinese Calligraphy painting, or writing. I am writing a poem with Chinese ink on shuan (Xuen) paper in my studio.
I am studying this ancient form of Chinese Calligraphy at The Great Wall Chinese School in Austin. My teacher, Mrs. Yang, speaks no English and I speak no Chinese, but we communicate through the beautiful strokes of Chinese Calligraphy. I feel privileged to write these symbols of words, as calligraphy is both Art and Language.
In April, my work will be part of an exhibifion of Chinese Calligraphy at the Austin Public Library. I feel honored to have work included in this show.
The First Post
This is my first post, as I try to figure out how to use WordPress.
Since the banners went up around the square in Georgetown yesterday and they feature my “Red Poppies” painting advertising the upcoming Georgetown 2011 Red Poppy Festival, I think that a picture of one of the banners will fit nicely here. I hope you agree.