Santorini - Oia in the distance

25 June 2012 - Santorini - Oia in the distance
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - along the walk from Fira to Oia

23 June 2012 - Santorini - along the walk from Fira to Oia.
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - steps leading down to Fira's Old Port

18 June 2012 - Santorini - steps leading down to Fira's Old Port
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - Fira's Old Port

16 June 2012 - Santorini - Fira's Old Port
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - Red Beach

16 June 2012 - Santorini - Red Beach
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - near Red Beach, facing away from the sea

13 June 2012 - Santorini - near Red Beach, facing away from the sea
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

walking up Filopappou Hill

3 June 2012 - walking up Filopappou Hill
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Santorini - Ancient Thera (version 3)

24 March 2012
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

I painted a couple versions of this one in the last year and a half (posted 10 November 2010 and 15 November 2010).  It's one of my all-time favorite views, so why not paint it again?

Santorini, Greece - along the walk to Oia

19 April 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Athens - more from the grounds of the Ancient Agora

2 February 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Athens - path amidst ruins

25 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Santorini, Greece - red rocks and sea

20 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Athens - grounds of the Keramikos

17 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Painting reference credit goes to my husband.

Athens - sunlight on a broken column

Not that my painting and the title line, from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men, were meant to have a lot in common other than in the literal sense...  I'm not much of a poetry reader, but this is one of my all-time favorite poems (along with Eliot's The Waste Land and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock).

13 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Painting reference credit goes to my husband.

Athens - mysterious staircase in the Ancient Agora

12 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Painting reference credit goes to my husband.

back to Athens - grounds of the Ancient Agora

7 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

the newer paintings on show at Vivace

Here's an inventory of paintings showing at Vivace I haven't posted on this blog yet.

This first one is of a beach on Kaua'i, from our 2007 visit.

29 January 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper
gifted

This next one is a smaller version of a painting I'd done earlier, of a view near Red Beach on the Greek island of Santorini.  I went for easier-to-frame 8"x10" size.

2 February 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper
sold

Here it is at Vivace.

This next one is also a second - much smaller - version of one I painted back in June 2010 (posted in July), of a service road leading up to the Portland International Rose Test Garden.

2 February 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

Like the previous two, this last one is also a reworking, painted on a more standard 11" x 14" size.  The previous versions were painted over a year ago, 18 January 2010 (posted in February 2010) and 5 October 2009 (posted January 2010).  It's interesting in a self-absorbed sort of way to see how my painting style has gradually changed over the year...

3 February 2011
11" x 14", acrylic on paper

The painting I posted yesterday is of the Sosogi Coast on the Noto Peninsula in Japan, from my visit there long ago during my student days.

Santorini - ancient path in Ancient Thera



29 December 2010
5"x7", acrylic on paper

Athens - Ancient Agora

13 December 2010
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

My painting subject matter has been doing a lot of time and place traveling.  Here I am back in Greece.

silliness

Whenever we travel, our cat gets boarded (and, from what we hear, properly spoiled); a few years ago, though, we had the not particularly original and thoroughly goofy idea of having a "representative" of our cat come along with us.  We found him at the Weiner Prater, an amusement park in Vienna, and he's traveled with us since then.

Vienna 2008

Vienna 2008 - paying homage to Johann Strauss in Stadpark (he's at the statue's feet)

Vienna 2008 - Wienerwald, eyeing other stuffed critters

Amsterdam 2009 - Johnny Jordaanplein

Luxembourg City 2009

Santorini 2010