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By now you probably have heard about the discovery of a lost Leonardo painting. I just wanted to put up this link to the Lumiere Technology website. You'll find lots of information there. Be sure to click on the "zoo… Continue

I've been meaning to visit the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport ever since it opened in1998, but I kept baulking at the rather steep $25 admission fee. They recently dropped the price to $18, which is quite a bit more reasonable. Then I found out they were included in the Smithsonian's Museum Day 2009, which meant the museum was offering free admission today, September 26. I circled the date on my calend… Continue

Oceanic Hotel, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, N.H., all photos by Jonathan Small, ©2009.

As I previously mentioned, the Isles of Shoals have long intrigued me. When I first looked into the possibility of going there, it looked like the only way of staying overnight was to attend a retreat through a church… Continue

Photo of Gosport (God's Port) by Jonathan Small, ©2009.

I've just returned home after a brief stay on Star Island in the Isles of Shoals archipelago off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. I went there along with eleven others as a participant in a trip offered by the Worcester Art Museum entitled Art and… Continue

I think most painters end up using favorite colors which need to be replenished from time to time, all the while accumulating tubes which for one reason or other they have discontinued using. I have a tube of Talens Cobalt Violet that must have been bought by my older sister in the ‘60s when she was in art school. I’ll probably never use it; I prefer to mix my own violets, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away either. I have a number of skinny little Grumbacher tubes which date back to my fi… Continue