Mission: acquisition!

Much as I had done in this previous post, I wanted to take a moment to gush about yet more recent art acquisitions in the (very lucky) Feissel household! Yay! The week before last John and I acquired two pieces from two of the artists from the Charleston, South Carolina “Women Painting Women” expedition last November – one is a sketch done of me during that trip by Linda Tracey Brandon, an Arizona-based painter:

Me, all happy with Linda's sketch

…the other is a painting also done on that trip by Alabama painter Terry Strickland, of the beach behind our rented house on Sullivan’s Island:

Painting of beach at Sullivan's Island by Terry Strickland

 It’s so great to have these pieces by these amazing artists, and to have the memories of that great week in SC!!! Booyeah!!!!

Dacia Gallery opening! A brief review in pictures.

Hey there, so I mentioned in this previous blog post that I was going to have some paintings in a group landscape show in NYC this month. John and I toddled up to the opening reception this past Saturday, and it was great - lots of things happening on the lower east side this weekend in particular and these days in general - lots and lots of galleries, restaurants, and generally cool places to hang out. John and I tried this tea place/eatery called "Teany" and we highly recommend it, if you ever find yourself in the neighborhood (checking out my work in Dacia Gallery, of course. Haha.) Anyway, here are a couple of photos from the show...

Dacia Gallery owner Lee Vasu addressing the gallery visitors

Dacia Gallery! Check it out.

Some critics discuss my painting of Alex in the Irish landscape (critics = friend and fellow Philadelphia painter David Campbell Wilson, and John)

Check out the show if you have a chance! It's up through May 28.





Drawing group.

Lately I've been going to this really awesome drawing group here in Philly at the studio of painter/sculptor Angela Cunningham. Here's a sketch from last week's session - I'm trying to decide whether I will try to do a painting of this same pose over the next 3 weeks of this pose... hmmm.

sketch of model, 4 hours, charcoal and white chalk on toned paper

PSoA.

I'm about ready to turn in the brushes for the night, but first, let me post a couple of quick pics from the Portrait Society of America conference from last weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. Good times! Good people! Great sessions with some great artists. All around a great event, I'm glad I joined the Society and happy to have attended the conference and met some wonderful people. Next year the conference will be held right here in my own backyard (so to speak), in Philadelphia, PA. Hurray!

Painters! L-R: Alia El-Bermani, Susan Lyon, Sadie Valeri, me

More painters! L-R: Alexandra Tyng, Terry Strickland, me.

Yet more painters! L-R, back row first: Sadie Valeri, me, Terry Strickland, Alia El-Bermani, Cindy Procious. 

Painting by Tony Ryder from the "Face Off" portrait painting competition



My favorite piece from Atlanta's High Museum, the last painting by artist Joseph De Camp.



Painters and sculptors! L-R: Amy Kann, Alia El-Bermani, Anne Nelson Sweat, Amy Lind, Terry Strickland, Lea Colie Wight, Mardie Rees, me, Alexandra Tyng.

(this photo courtesy of Anne Nelson Sweat).

Dacia, dahhling.

I have a ton of things I want to blog about – including last weekend’s Portrait Society of America conference in Atlanta, GA - but first I want to mention that I will have three paintings in a landscape show at Dacia Gallery in NYC this month. The opening reception is this coming Saturday, May 7 from 6-10pm; if you are in Manhattan, please stop by and say hello!

Here’s one of the paintings which will be in the show:

the high road, oil on panel, 16”x20’, by me, Diane Feissel.

Connecting with Disconnect.

The most incredibly great thing just came to us in the mail - the following painting by mind-blowingly amazing Pennsylvania painter Josh Suda:

Disconnected, oil on panel, 12"x16", by Josh Suda

I don't know how to say it more plainly: I LOOOOVE this painting. It's simply incredible, even more so in person. And it's mine now!!! Hooray!!!

Check out more of Josh's work at the Broad Street Studio website or at Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA.

Vision to Hand.

I've been super-lax on the blog posts lately, been busy painting and seeing paintings and thinking about paintings. But not writing about paintings, apparently! Haha. Anyway, more soon - just wanted to quickly mention this blog post by painter Matthew Innis on Alexandra Tyng's painting of me, entitled Vision to Hand, which recently received a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America. Check out the piece at this link: http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/2011/04/psoa-certificate-of-excellence.html. 

Vision to Hand (Diane Feissel), oil on linen, 36" x 28"
by Alexandra Tyng