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Marjorie Vernelle
Nov 238 min read
An Artist's Journey: Colorado to the Nile
At Cairo International Airport, King Tutankhamun greets you with a seductive but edgy, "Come hither my love." Quite a remarkable thing...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Jun 95 min read
Deb Bartos: The Healing Image
"One can see art in nature and always learn more," Deb Bartos. Many of us have seen days like this: peaceful, calm, golden leaves...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Apr 145 min read
Wendy Mike: The Sculpted Life of an Artist.
Above, a video of the permanent installation at the St. Francis Orthopedic Hospital in Colorado Springs, created on a rock climbing theme...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Mar 15 min read
Charissa Jarrett: Histories, Abstracts, Feelings, and Physics.
The two little girls were about six and eight years old. Mom said, "Go pick a place to sit," as she turned to make their breakfast order...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Feb 163 min read
AURIC: An Afternoon Visit to the Gallery
I admit that a hectic schedule and the late afternoon rain and chill on Friday, February 2nd, sent me scurrying home to light a fire in...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Jan 14 min read
Points of View: An Artist/Writer Talks About Color.
Well, it is New Year's Day, the start of 2024, which begs the question, "What am I doing that is new?" Of course, it would be wonderful...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Oct 14, 20236 min read
From Inside the Studio: Reflections on Showing One's Art.
In 1573 the Inquisition in Venice called for the artist Paolo Veronese to come forth to explain his painting, then called The Last Supper....
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Marjorie Vernelle
Sep 13, 20235 min read
Shannon Mello: Art All Around
You can always tell an artist whose first love was watercolor. A sense of the ethereal blending of atmosphere, color, and subtle emotion...
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Marjorie Vernelle
May 28, 20234 min read
From Inside the Studio
Art is so often a quiet activity. It starts as an internal imagining that comes into the world in colors, lines, and forms. These may...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Apr 1, 20236 min read
Carol Dickerson: Sleight of Hand
Blues, grays, shadowy whites - the colors of mystery. Rectangles, loops, parallels - the geometry of intellect. Tones that shift with...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Mar 2, 20235 min read
Deb Komitor: "And the Seasons, They Go Round and Round..."
We have all walked through the woods in autumn and found it hard to imagine anything more beautiful than brightly colored leaves...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Jan 29, 20233 min read
From the Studio: New Year, New Starts, and Gratitude.
Well, it is the end of January. It took that long for me to stop writing the old year and learn to write the new one - 2023. As with any...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Dec 31, 20223 min read
The Art Blog Reviews 2022
After a hectic December, which for me included a little Christmas vacation to Quebec City, it is now the 31st, that day when one reflects...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Nov 14, 20226 min read
Karen Storm: Painting from Prose to Poetry.
"I like to use what I call my artistic license to move my painting from what I see, literally, to what goes beyond that." Karen Storm We...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Oct 18, 20224 min read
Squash Blossom Gallery: Spirit of the Southwest.
Nothing could be more southwestern in tone than this wonderful piece by Colorado Springs' artist, Karen Storm, depicting the Garden of...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Sep 5, 20223 min read
Plein Air Painting at 10,000 ft: Victor Celebrates the Arts, 2022
I grew up on the prairies of Nebraska. Though I have lived in many parts of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) as well as a number...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Aug 22, 20223 min read
Plein Air Gig at Third Thursday in Monument, CO.
Plein air painting is an activity with roads that lead in many directions. A couple of months ago I was trying, without luck, to find a...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Jul 15, 20224 min read
Jana Bussanich: Yellow Couch Creative Makes a Community.
"Oh, you know it seems to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone...." Joni Mitchell from Big Yellow Taxi We all felt the...
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Marjorie Vernelle
Jun 15, 20226 min read
Phil Lear: Portraits, Poetry, and Disrupted Reality.
"Art: It has to be honest. It has to be in its own time. And it must have to come from a spark." Phil Lear Even with the narrow focus...
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Marjorie Vernelle
May 15, 20226 min read
Miriam Brock: Art As Visual Communication.
Seascapes are deceptive paintings. A balance of the solidity of earth and the fluidity of water, they combine elements that are firmly...
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