First let me say: Wooo Hooo!!! New photos! Yes, I finally have taken some photos of more-recent paintings. They aren’t perfect photos, but they are close approximations of my work. And I just can’t wait any longer to publish. (This whole photos of the paintings thing is pretty much driving me crazy…but then it’s a… Continue reading My New Favorite Subject: Me!
Author: Joanne
Joanne Taeuffer is an expressive painter. She lives in the Berkeley Hills and Healdsburg, CA, with her husband and their black cats, Oscar Wild and Percy.
Learning Through Osmosis
As I’ve been painting more and more, it seems like my husband has learned a bit through osmosis. I brought home an in-progress painting the other day. I admit that I had wandered away from the straight and narrow on this painting, wantonly dabbing on colors long before it was time. I put the painting… Continue reading Learning Through Osmosis
Suspension of Disbelief
Lately I’ve noticed that suspension of disbelief is critical to my painting. It’s one of those things I discovered by watching somebody else work. A fellow painter, who had just added some pink to the foreground of a beach scene, stepped back and I heard her say: “No. No. It’s not right.” She reached for… Continue reading Suspension of Disbelief
Joanne Taeuffer 