by Sue Schlabach | Jan 11, 2021 | Artists, Natural World, Paintings, Vermont
Here we are, dust settling around the nation’s Capitol, snow on the ground, my daughter planning her 16-hour drive back to college, and a new surge of coronavirus cases spiking. So much to worry about. Thinking back to last year at this time, my mother had just...
by Sue Schlabach | Sep 29, 2019 | In the Studio, Paintings, Summer, Vermont
Memory flashback: June 7. I set up my easel at the corner on Belknap Brook Rd and Dairy Hill in Tunbridge, Vermont. Morning breeze keeps the black flies in check (sort of) and the farmhouse just up the meadow from me is lit in filtered sun. Chervil is blooming along...
by Sue Schlabach | Apr 4, 2019 | Artisanal Living, Color, In the Studio, Paintings
Morning light creeps through the curtains around 5:30, and what’s new is birdsong. There is still a crust of snow on the fields, but patches of grass are making a comeback—albeit matted, brown and littered with twigs, and less savory piles revealed after the...
by Sue Schlabach | Oct 8, 2018 | In the Studio
WHEN YOU PACK UP your tubes of paint, brushes, fold up easel, and all the rest, you find out quickly what you forgot as you set up to paint outside on a summer day. When it’s hot and sunny I often forget my hat. Sunscreen sometimes too. (Luckily I paint with a...
