by Rosemary Allison | Oct 23, 2019 | Artist's Notes
It has been a long time since I have even tried to exhibit my work. A friend came to the house and saw my paintings. True, no one around me actually knows that I paint. It is one of those things I am quiet about as I ask myself: Do my neighbours need paintings? Do...
by Rosemary Allison | May 16, 2019 | Artist's Notes
Dear fellow artists, please be aware that there are people who will try to defraud artists out of their money and their artwork. These people are only interested in money and not in your well loved and worked on paintings. Shanty This is how it played out for me just...
by Rosemary Allison | Sep 21, 2018 | Artist's Notes
I thought I was going to have a hard time wtih violet. It is a color I love, but I don’t use it much when I paint. It is difficult to mix if using gouache, as I most probably will end up with a pretty gray rather than the intense violet I was thinking about. Therefore...
by Rosemary Allison | Aug 3, 2018 | Artist's Notes
I can tell you first hand what indigo looks like, it is the color of the bruise that appeared on my right hip after Tara my filly kicked out at the gelding Mortimer and got me instead. That is what indigo looks like. I have never seen a horse express so much remorse,...
by Rosemary Allison | Jul 3, 2018 | Artist's Notes
My favorite blue happens to be Ultramarine. It was years before I discovered that this color had been mined in Afghanistan and taken to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, and that it was Lapis Lazuli that had been ground down into a powder to get that...
by Rosemary Allison | Jun 18, 2018 | Artist's Notes
Why do I write that? Immersed in, or surrounded by green, I have always found this colour extremely difficult to use. There are so many greens. A painter friend once wrote me a note on how to mix the different greens, I have found her words very useful. Although more...
