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Every year during the second and third weekends of October over a hundred of Portland’s artists throw open their studio doors and invite the public into the spaces where art is made. Portland Open Studios is a juried event that Dennis and I both have been lucky enough to get into the last two years; two years […]
I can’t count the number of times people have asked me if I teach painting classes. I have always said no. This is because I was not taught to be a painter ( I majored in Graphic Design in college) and do what I do intuitively. Passing on that kind of knowledge is difficult and […]
Why did this photo get such a huge response on my facebook page? Because everyone loves Dennis? maybe, but more likely the adoring Dog Friday is the real reason. Why are we so attracted to anything with animals? Dennis has been using animals as a motif on his recent Mishima work. (Here is a video […]
If you have lived in Portland Oregon very long chances are you have been to the Menucha Retreat Center near Corbett above the Columbia Gorge. Originally built by Julius Meier, of Meier & Frank fame, it is now owned by the Presbyterian church and serves as a place of refuge, reflection and learning for a […]
If you follow what I am doing in my studio you may think I have not been doing much. The truth is I’m doing quite a lot, but have not been finishing what I start. Sometimes the isolation of studio work leads to spinning my wheels and a lack of impetus to keep on with the […]
The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts is an ambitious affair that has been going on for over fifty years. For almost twenty of those years we lived in Southern Oregon oblivious to the goings-on in the Portland area. This year Jill Randall, a high school friend I paint with nearly every week, and I decided […]
Lately I posted some videos on Facebook that people really enjoyed watching. Here is one: Mishima pottery comes from the Japanese Island of Mishima, but it was originally transported from Korea around the 16th century. This surface design technique is a way of drawing lines incised in leather-hard clay then overlaying a slip of contrasting […]
Every Day Follow Leslie’s 2014 Daily Drawings at facebook.com/MeinersAndLee (no need to join FaceBook) Oct. 18-19 Stop by our studios, say hello and see what we’re doing! Nose around in our mess. Who knows what you’ll find? Nov. 8-9 Dennis’ work at the Sitka Art Invitational at Miller Hall, World Forestry Center near the Oregon […]
I was pleased to be asked by Rogue Community College’s FireHouse Gallery to co-jury their Southern Oregon Art Show this week. It’s an historic community art show now in it’s 66th year, open to all, with categories in painting, watercolor, sculpture, ceramics etc. It’s a non-juried show but they award first, second and third places in each of […]
