Art Full Weekend

I had a very visual weekend this week. I met an artist mentor for coffee on Saturday morning and got more good advice. In the afternoon I met another artist friend to view several of the new shows up in Portland. We both enjoyed Katayma Framing and the Murdoch collection of Oregon artists. We also went to our usual galleries, Attic, Augen,Broderick, and Laura Russo. We'll hit the Pearl area another day. Before leaving downtown I stopped in at the Contemporary Crafts Museum to see 4 fellow artists from the Portland Open Studios demonstrating their art.
On Sunday afternoon I went into Portland again and saw the documentary Our City Dreams
at the Hollywood Cinema. Its a great film about 5 women and their art. It spans generations of art making from the 60's to the present, well worth seeing for the history and the artist's insights. I finished the day by going to Carol Shaerer's opening at the Iorio Resaurant, a good show and fine time.
I did have time to work on a painting that was bugging me and this how I left it Sunday night.


This is where the painting is now,it was just too much about the squares and I was following the design of a very tight abstract that seemed interesting when I started, but the things I liked the most were the edge incidents. The rest was boring me and I enjoy the mark of the brush in a painting.

Squares v3 36x36

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think.
Bruce