Artists are the ones that get so close to the paintings, they make the guards nervous.
Yesterday I went to the National Gallery in Washington D.C. with friends Vickie Branas and Janet Belich. Janet was taking photos, so she’s the invisible third party on this trip.
I’m starting some big watercolor paintings with figures, so I wanted to see how the great watercolor artists had done it. My favorite was the impressionists (and the American portrait painters.)
The modern art in the east building … I just don’t know. Is a white canvas really art? 
Of course,Debi a white canvas is art ! A well done painting compels the viewer to get close, observe, ask questions, spur debate, promt emotion, tell a story or all of the above.
My favorite story that a white canvas tells is that of a cow eating grass. Where’s the grass one may ask. Well, the cow ate it. Where’s the cow? You don’t think she would sick around when the grass was gone, do you ?
I rest my case.
Debi,
It looks like you three really examined the art, I’m wondering what caught your eye the most? Did you find a little known jewel.
Was there a stand out piece that captured you,Debi??
Looking forward to your newest endeavor large figure works? I suggest the number Seven. I do not know why when someone says figure works I always have to say that joke? But I do, Sorry!!
As to the white canvas I was always told its a painting of a polar bear in a white-out storm.
Take Care Debi.
My favorite piece was a portrait of a young man with glasses in the American art section. It was painted by the young man’s father and showed a lot of love and care in the detail he captured. The young man had one pair of glasses on and was holding a second pair. I just wondered, why two?