by Kirsten Lee | Oct 4, 2020 | Art Life, Plein Air, Uncategorized
The choice of a color palette dictates the mood of a painting. Color theory is an ongoing source of inspiration, frustration, and constant study. And yet, as each season unfurls, I’m struck with nature’s ever-changing, harmonic color, and EFFORTLESS...
by Kirsten Lee | Sep 25, 2020 | Art Life, Plein Air
Mark takes the day off so we can continue my Birthday festivities with the new Steeplechase exhibit at the NSLM, some delicious pub fare, an errand at the secondhand tack shop, and a visit with a friends feisty black colt. I tear and fold a little concertina spread,...
by Kirsten Lee | May 26, 2020 | Art Life, IceKance, Photography
Morning email brings an invitation to join the “Kitchen Table Film Festival.” Kara Kramer, Carla Sonheim and her team have combined “Make it Move-a Low-tech Intro into Animation” with a sure-to-be joyous online film festival to celebrate all...
by Kirsten Lee | Apr 1, 2019 | Art Life, Photography, Plein Air
April Fools, and there’s a thin slab of ice on the smaller water buckets. As much a gift as the tulips exploding through winter’s doldrums-wahoo! A whole new palette, a whole new perspective… and new pressure to create pictures as the ice trickles...
by Kirsten Lee | Mar 17, 2019 | Art for Change, Art Life, Photography, Plein Air
The “Icekance” series continues to grow, the mythology to evolve. The journey always beckons, however much we wish to curl up on the couch as the earth spins through space. Sometimes the way is clear. Such is the Path through Copper Mountain, buoyed by a...
by Kirsten Lee | Oct 26, 2018 | Art Life, Pictures, Parks and Promises, Plein Air
Neither flu nor strep nor forecast nor’easters can keep me away from the wild horses this weekend! Panels toned and drying for this much-anticipated plain air workshop on Assateague Island. I can’t wait to see what they look like come Sunday!...
