Watercolor and other art by Rachel Ferrier
What's this? Another post about a trip I've taken recently? Crazy, right? After nearly a year of not leaving Illinois, we got to take yet another quick getaway over the first weekend of October, which makes me feel a little spoiled. It was no substitute for, say, a trip to Ireland (my friend forwarded me… Continue reading A Fall Getaway Down South
I took the week before Labor Day off from my day job just to have time to rest and relax for a minute and work on some art. I don't know how well I succeeded at that, but Jake and I did manage a visit to our local apple orchard, and then made a trip… Continue reading Labor Day Travels and Photos
I imagine that most artists, if not all, find ways to incorporate their other hobbies and interests into their subject matter, especially if they're doing representational art. It would be weird and probably uninspiring to make art that you don't care about, right? I've included ballet in my paintings and drawings, along with place I've… Continue reading Taking a Day Trip to See Some Trains
Seven years ago this month, I was in France. Specifically, a teeny tiny village in the mountains of southern France, staying in a renovated 12th-century manor with about seven strangers, bunking in a room named Urania after the muse of astronomy. My home base back then was Baltimore, where I lived while I did my… Continue reading On this day in 2013… my first (but hopefully not last) art retreat
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