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Where’d the Time Go? BlogDigital Art

Where’d the Time Go?

The art blog is missing quite a chunk, I noticed.  My pals and I asked the Oracle of the Universe where the time went. Came back this reply from the OOTU: "The daggone Treasure Valley Artists' Alliance done whittled it all away, Amigo.  Now, get back to paintin' or I'm just gonna hafta slap yuh." The Entirely Virtual…
Mike Chambers
August 14, 2010
Moses' Doors, oil on canvas, Michael Chambers
Big Mo BlogPainting

Big Mo

This is my biggest painting ever!  Sure, he'll get a new name... when I've had a chance to reflect and consider and roll it over in my mind and all. Titles of paintings are little works of art in themselves.  They need to encapsulate the piece and be truthful and terse and evocative…
Mike Chambers
June 4, 2010
Gimme an A! BlogPainting

Gimme an A!

The artists' alliance is gonna be in the Modern Art show at the Modern Hotel and Bar. We've got the 14-foot high decorative concrete wall that looks out onto the parking lot in front of the hotel lobby. We'll hang one-foot square self-portraits and Ts, Vs, and As on it.…
Mike Chambers
April 11, 2010
Here’s to New Beginnings BlogPainting

Here’s to New Beginnings

I started a new canvas yesterday.  It was bright white and beautiful and just sat there beckoning me away from the big, much-more-serious one that I should have been working on. This is the most exciting phase of a new piece because things change so fast.  It's impossible to know this early on what the…
Mike Chambers
February 1, 2010
On the Wings of an Easel BlogPainting

On the Wings of an Easel

When is it a good idea to put wings on an easel?   When it makes the painting just perfect. One day a few years ago I painted a little picture of my easel.  Innocent enough.  The more I looked at it the more I knew that there was something almost magical about that little painting…
Mike Chambers
January 6, 2010
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