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  • Another Garden Year

    Another Garden Year

    My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. Claude Monet In 2024 I set out to make a watercolor bouquet of the flowers in my garden in the style of 18th century Pieter Casteels III. We know them as the ubiquitous engravings, the classic “Twelve Months of Flowers”. Each month I would sketch in watercolor the…

    MSRitzman

    March 15, 2025
    Projects, Sketching
    art, flowers, garden, Garden bouquet, gardening, Pieter Casteels, Twelve Months of Flowers, watercolor, watercolor garden
  • Paris Log

    Paris Log

    A collection of scenes from a small area in Paris November 2024. Marche Montorgeuil Gastronomy and Pâtissiers Around every corner and up every narrow street … it makes Paris, PARIS! We made a visit to Pere LaChaise via metro The Pere-Lachaise cemetery has two centuries of history with many well know residents. On this November…

    MSRitzman

    November 24, 2024
    Travel & Tours, Workshop
    art, books, food, montorgeuil, Paris, photography, travel
  • Visit to Singer Sargent show at Tate Britain

    Visit to Singer Sargent show at Tate Britain

    I have not visited the Tate prior, so I did a little research into ‘Tate’. Amazing what you learn … Henry Tate a grocer turned sugar magnate, bought the patent to the ‘sugar cube making process’ in 1875 … the cube made its British debut and Tate made his fortune. Tate developed an interest in…

    MSRitzman

    May 13, 2024
    Travel & Tours
    art, john-singer-sargent, london, painting, tate-britain

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