From the monthly archives:

October 2008

October Baby, 43 Years Ago…

by Barbara Hartsook on October 22, 2008 · 12 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

I drew and colored my baby announcements. Fall leaves on the front, the insides blank for a few more days until my Terri’s arrival on the 23rd of that October morning. I had washed and folded the spanking-new diapers, laid them on the bassinet’s lower shelf, next to the Carter infant sleepers and tiny wash [...]

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The Beginning of Fall… Painter X Tutorial

by Barbara Hartsook on October 11, 2008 · 8 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee,Painter Tutorials

It smells like the beginning of fall — you know, that smell of half-summer, half fall. Oh, I can’t explain it… but it’s nice.  It smells like something new is coming… So said my twenty-year-old granddaughter Lyssa, as she opened the door to the morning on the way to her college classes for the day. [...]

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Painted for Story… People Photo Inspires an Oil Painting on Canvas

by Barbara Hartsook on October 5, 2008 · 11 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

My best people paintings come from photos that suggest a story to me. Nothing spectacular. Usually not posed, and with no special lighting. Even photos taken on a grey day with little color can tell a story so poignant it begs to be painted. I found such a photo two years ago among my daughter’s [...]

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Bold Ideas and Solutions Come with Time

by Barbara Hartsook on October 1, 2008 · 8 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee,Painter Tutorials

My friend The Purple Owl says: Getting creative ideas is not something you do. It’s something you allow to happen. My best ideas for solutions often come with time; they rarely present themselves immediately. For instance, in Chris Price’s Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week’s assignment this fall was to paint [...]

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