Archive for April 2016
Paintings at Atlas Coffee
[blockquote] Still Life Paintings by Mary Michaela Murray May 4 – June 15 Atlas Coffee 2206 Fontaine Ave. Charlottesville, VA open Mon – Sat • 7am to 3pm [/blockquote]
Read Morework in progress
I am not sure I have ever had as much fun painting. This is the first time I have had a painting studio—a place of my own where I feel so free to make messes, to embrace failure, to get out of the way of myself. I spent the first couple of months in the…
Read MoreBack to basics
For the past six months I have been beating myself up about being a still life painter. I tried hard to paint landscapes, to find a way to express the beauty I see in nature, but I was miserable and even worse my paintings were. There is something in the mass of things, and the…
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