Paula O'Brien Author

Costume drama in Barcelona

  Loved these street performers in Barcelona dressed as women from a Velasquez painting. I am still trying to get back to the Inspiration section on my site but dang it, life is just so exciting and busy. I keep hitting remind in a week when the reminder pops up. Barcelona was wonderful and I […]

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New oil paintings

Finally got my site updated with my new 2010 work which is in oil paint and gold leaf on canvas. The gold leaf is much easier to work on a nice dry acrylics ground so I learned that I had to put the leaf down at an earlier stage with oils… had to spend an

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So nice to get fan mail

Hi Paula, At the American Tug rendezvous last September I commented on your wonderfully colorful attire and you were kind enough to give me a card announcing a show opening occurring in October. I’ve held on to that card ever since and just now visited your website. What a full, interesting life you’ve lived! The

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Back in the studio 2010

Just got back to the studio after taking some time off over Christmas and am just resurrecting this blog which has lain ignored for a year while I focused on other projects. I am hard at work building my artist networking site www.sunshinecoastartists.org and have 83 slides ready for the slideshow I hope to mount

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