This is one of the paintings I have done at my class at the MFA.
- Mood:
accomplished
This is a photograph I took at the MET of a glass mosaic by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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calm
Last night, I was taken out to dinner by Leigh & Chris to the Chateau for a belated birthday celebration. The food and conversation were very pleasant. I told them of my visit to NYC and showed photos and video on my iPod. Later, I invited them to the house for birthday cake and to meet Tigger.
Today I went to my painting class. The process is challenging, but I think I am improving technique. This may have been my last class if I am hired for that job. I will just have to wait and see.
- Mood: content
- Music:Rescue by Echo and the Bunnymen
I asked him what part of Scotland he was from. He replied that he was from Orkney Islands in the far north. I said that I visited Scotland once with my mother and that her maiden name was Stirling. He sounded bemused.
On Tuesday, I attended my first painting class at the MFA. The subject was a still life and the paints used were acrylic. As a complete novice at this medium, I was intimidated at first. But after diving in - so to speak - I became more relaxed though it was still a challenge. I think my prior experience in charcoal drawing helped me.
- Mood: pleased
- Music:The Back of Love (Live) by Echo and the Bunnymen
- Mood: calm
- Music:Novio by Moby
For fans of Jane Austen dramatizations, there are performances by Crispin Bonham-Carter & Amanda Root.
- Mood: calm
- Mood:
disappointed - Music:Rockin' In The Free World by Neil Young
We could not enter the via the west entrance as usual because of ongoing renovation. So we entered through the Fenway entrance. By the time we reached the Gund Gallery on the other side of the building, Mom (because of Parkinson's) was tired out. So we borrowed an MFA wheelchair for her to sit on in the gallery. While it is disconcerting to see an aging parent needing a wheelchair, pushing the chair gave me a sense of purpose. Before we came to the museum, I was quite depressed. Thus that sense of purpose - as well as the art - improved my mood. I also noticed that people clear a path for a wheelchair and do not complain when you move right in front of a painting.
Afterward I bought a copy of The City of Falling Angels: by John Berendt at the gift shop. I have started reading it and like it so far.
- Mood: calm
- Music:Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book by Dead Can Dance
- Mood: pleased
Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815). It was a collection of paintings, etchings, furniture, clothing, vases, even an ornamental gun collection. C'est magnifique!
Seeing the exhibit is timely, as we have been watching the BBC TV series of Tolstoy's War & Peace on DVD. Produced in 1972, it was on PBS in 1973. I remember watching it at age nine and how impressed I was even though I did not understand it all. I was especially impressed by the stand out performance of a young Anthony Hopkins as Count Pierre Bezuhov. Other fine performances were Alan Dobie as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, David Swift as Napoleon, and Frank Middlemass as General Mikhail Kutuzov.
- Mood: content
I went to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston today to see the Edward Hopper exhibit; it was fabulous. I highly recommend it and intend to see it again.
- Mood: chipper
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