by Grier Horner | Jun 23, 2019 | Converting Paintings to Photos, Kate Moss, New Bold Style, Peter Allien, Portraits
Photos by Grier Horner//All Rights Reserved The faces I paint tend to be pretty conventional. It wasn’t that I didn’t like them. It’s just that I wanted to try something bolder. As my constant in this experiment, I used a painting I’d done in 2012 for my Scarlet Letter series loosely based on a photo of Kate Moss. Then I started messing around. The one above is one of my first efforts, although I’ve worked on it more last night. At the very top of this post is one I put together in the last couple days. These are photographs, not...
by Grier Horner | Jun 19, 2019 | contest, George Segal, Life & Art, Self-portraits, Williams College Museum of Art
Here I am, green with envy, in this selfie I call A Segal and Me. It is one of six photos I entered in a self-portrait contest sponsored by See-Me. I know I didn’t win the grand prize. It went to Kenneth Lambert. They don’t seem to have listed the runners-up. So I could still be in the running. (Dream on, Grier.) I looked at some of the submissions on their website today and found I’m up against some very stiff competition. In 2015 this sculpture had become a favorite backdrop for selfies, standing dramatically at the bottom of the stairs at...
by Grier Horner | Jun 14, 2019 | Life & Art
I took this picture to show you this humungous lady. She must have been 40 feet high. I couldn’t believe it. There were these old people in front of her. They knew it was not good manners to look. They were all looking away. Then we went inside this big room and there were a lot more naked ladies and a whole bunch of old people. They were all looking. Daddy told me it was okay to look. That’s why they were there. So you could look at them. He said I was old enough. That made me feel grown up. One of the only pictures that wasn’t of a naked lady...
by Grier Horner | Jun 5, 2019 | Life & Art
Julie Love Edmonds, a Stockbridge artist, currently has an exhibit at 510 Warren Street in Hudson, New York, that showcases her talent in both landscapes and portraiture. In the last year or so she has been doing her landscapes on three to six canvases, always with a vertical orientation. It’s an approach I haven’t seen before and she pulls it off brilliantly. I have know Julie for years and been a huge fan of her portraits. We both participate in an art group that meets monthly. Below is her picture of Linda Baker-cimini, who also belonged...
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