The Importance of Experiments
Playing with art by making studies and using many materials and various styles to paint the same thing, is one way artists develop skill.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Aug 30
- 3 min
What I Learn from Helping
For the past few months, I've been involved with our local art association. This is a new adventure for me!
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jun 5
- 2 min
Finding Inspiration in Food
I'm a notably bad cook, baker, and dinner-maker. And my sense of taste when it comes to food is not particularly fine. On most days, I...
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Jennifer Gillen
- May 24
- 2 min
Sharing Art Tips (in real life)
How meeting other artists in real life improves my art.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Coming Back
Yes, real artists do quit. But they also restart. My last blog post was about exploring new avenues of creating. I wanted to know what...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jan 28
- 3 min
Redouté: Rose Gardens and Refinement?
Art history connects us to a thread of other artists who bothered with beauty when it did not appear relevant or easy.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jul 16, 2022
- 3 min
Artist's Hand: Proof of Presence
Hand is the trace left by the artist that lets you know it was crafted by a human.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
What's Up with White Backgrounds?
The straight-forward, no-nonsense appearance of white backgrounds is really appealing to me now. No, I'm not just being lazy! Keeping the...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Mar 17, 2022
- 2 min
The Romeo and Juliet Series
It's officially a series! I'm finishing the third painting in a series of traditional botanical paintings based on Shakespeare's Romeo...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Shakespeare and the Camellias
A few weeks ago, I was on a long drive home from visiting my daughter who is away at college. Listening to audio books and podcasts helps...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Mar 5, 2022
- 2 min
The Camellias
Last February, I visited a botanical garden during an unseasonably warm afternoon. It was an overcast day. The clouds created moody...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
The Size of Art
Have you ever noticed the different sizes of museum paintings? Maybe, if you're like me, when you leave a museum, you think about all of...
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Jennifer Gillen
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
Painting in the Time of Climate Change
How reading and climate change lead to a new painting series.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
In Defense of Beauty in Art
Is beauty radical, life-changing or even important? Maybe not, but here's my view.
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Jennifer Gillen
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Artist as a Reader
We are what we read! Books influence artists in many ways.
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