LINDA H. POST FINE ART

I often come back to the same models when I think about a new painting. (Not the birds. I always choose new birds.) After quite some time...

I started thinking about this painting - actually, dreaming it - last winter, in January. I didn't draw it onto canvas until almost May....

In my last post, I wrote about the raven in this painting. It's been interesting giving personality to seagulls in many of my recent...

It's time for a breather. I've been working on big projects for the past few years, paintings that can take a year to complete. The most...

Nothing ever goes exactly the way you plan it. It is SUCH a large painting, difficult to measure accurately, and eventually we had to take t

This painting is ready to come off the wall. It looks like it will be about 6 1/2 feet by 7 1/2 feet. Once the final dimensions are...

The light is mysterious in this painting. Perhaps that's because I originally planned a brilliant blue sky. The deep red has a presence

It's been a while since I've posted about this painting, and quite a bit has changed. I'm past the beginning and well into the middle of...

Monotypes! A show of my monotypes will be on display on the main floor of R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street, in Northampton, MA for...

So busy this summer, hard to find enough studio time. As I wander in and out (one of the best parts of having a studio attached to your...

The seagull in this painting is 16" tall. I like the composition of the two girls and the bird in the foreground - they all have pretty...

Faces are my favorite subject to paint. I treated myself this week to both faces - and threw in a start on the flying seagulls too. I'm...

January, February, March - it seemed to go by in a blur. A vacation, a shoulder injury and my "day job" at Paradise City Arts Festivals...

"Speaking the Language of Birds", although not quite finished, is on view at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA - out of my studio...

Today I stretched my new painting, Speaking The Language of Birds. Don Robinson at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton had prepared the...

Yesterday I finished enough of this painting to figure out where it ends. That is a literal "ends". I work on a big piece of primed linen...

Hands can be as expressive as faces. As a young artist, I noticed that a huge number of figurative paintings - even by REALLY FAMOUS...

So this is where I am at the end of today. This painting is just starting to gain presence and solidity. It's important to work back and...

Long ago and far away... I traveled to France. I took many photographs, of course, but this carousel in a village carnival caught my...

Last year I spent a few days in a tiny house on a horse farm in Westport, Massachusetts while in the area for a family wedding. I grew up...