Impressionistic Vineyard Quilt Debuts with Pomona Painting
To coordinate with my husband’s family picture of the West Coast, we hung one of my quilts. Then I proclaimed that painting was of the Currier Ranch in Pamona.
18th Century Virginia Musings
To coordinate with my husband’s family picture of the West Coast, we hung one of my quilts. Then I proclaimed that painting was of the Currier Ranch in Pamona.
I used lots of batiks with shadings of light and dark with blues and purples, allowing the light to bounce off in interesting ways depending on the time of day.
The friendly Mr. Monturano has also provided art for the National Archives, the Kennedy Center, and Christ Church in historic Alexandria, Virginia.
My son portrayed a Texan cowboy/ Rough Rider. My daughter was Anne of Green Gables. I played Queen Liliuokalani and a lady in an impressionist painting.
We are using a terrific book for this: Monet and the Impressionists for Kids, which includes terrific art lessons my kids used for their projects.
Perplexed I looked around…and realized the sunshine was coming from the yellow paint, which had finally overtaken the old cave pink salmon of gloom and doom.
I noticed a beautiful impressionistic painting of bluebonnets in La Grange, Fayette County, Texas. A Texas town named for the Marquis de Lafayette!