After a tumultuous year of moving twice, getting settled at a new church, and receiving a tremendous gift of tons of art supplies, I am now organized and slowly getting back to work. What I am working on now are interiors and some landscape and animal paintings inspired by the wonderful farm where we lived in Newport, Virginia. After years of painting cityscapes I decided that I needed a break from it. I am also looking forward to trying some new mediums, such as pastel, and getting reacquainted with old ones that I used to do a lot of work in, such as watercolor.
My wife and I just returned from vacation. While away, we got to visit the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, which had recently undergone a huge renovation. The last time I was there was to see the famous "Timla Relic" a few years ago. Unlike some horrific church renovations that have gone on in recent years that were supposedly meant to "update" the church, this restoration was meant to "return" the interior of the building to its original Federal-period design. And I must say that it a very tasteful renovation. They did a really good job. It looks almost like an old early Episcopal church - white washed interior, minimal designs, etc. The interior is now very bright because they removed the stained glass (dark blue Willet windows), and uncovered the original skylights in the dome. They kept all of the good stuff (the high altar, altar rails, etc.), and brought some cool old stuff back (e.g. the nation's first RC epi...
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