Sallie Bowen Marcus Daly Legacy
Wednesday, 05 September 2018 / Published in Buying Art, Painting, Watercolor

Watercolor Show: Uptown Cafe, uptown Butte, Mt.

  A watercolor show of the work of Patti Henry and Sallie Bowen is on exhibit at the Uptown Cafe. Located at 47 E. Broadway in uptown Butte, Mt, the show runs through November 2, 2018. Their watercolor show is titled “Botanicals, Interiors, and Landscapes.” It consists of almost forty original watercolors. Background: Artists Sallie Bowen and
black Chinese ink on rice paper
Wednesday, 25 July 2018 / Published in Painting, Travel

The Chinese Experience: Painting and Culture

The Chinese Experience: Initial Impressions in 1985 My Chinese Experience began in May of 1985. I was selected to be a part of a sixteen-artist group to study Chinese Landscape painting for two months. This was an internship program sponsored by the University of Minnesota: Duluth. Cheng Khee Chee, Duluth artist, workshop instructor and campus
Personal Style, finding who you are as an artist
Monday, 09 July 2018 / Published in Inspiration, Painting, Uncategorized, Watercolor

Personal Style in your artistic growth.

    Finding your own Personal Style: Personal style will evolve  as you move from the representational to something more imaginative. We all want our own style, our brand, that personal look. In my own work, I am inspired by where I live: the landscapes, buildings, the wild plants, morning and evening light, and my
Imagination in Sallie Bowen's Skullduggery came from playing with the composition, juxtaposing positions, arbitrary color
Tuesday, 26 June 2018 / Published in Drawing, Inspiration, Painting, Right Brain Left Brain

Imagination and the Right Brain: setting the stage.

Imagination and the Right Brain: Imagination will result when successfully switching from left brain to right brain thinking. In the previous blog, ways of thinking and problem solving were discussed and divided between the two hemispheres of the brain: right and left. Each thinks differently and each specializes in its own way of problem solving.