Blog | Shirley Phelan Art

New year, new subjects...

After surviving my first professional show, I took some time away from painting to enjoy the holidays. Now it is nearly the end of...

Coming up for air...

After a very busy summer getting ready for the first ever Reno-Tahoe International Art Show it is great to report that the show was...

The show must go on...

It has been a busy summer with vacation, visitors, camping, and all of this with a broken wrist. Yes, I broke it while on a cycling...

Struggling with "done."

I grew up with a painting by my Grandpa Swann hanging in our living room. I have photos of me, as a baby, sitting on my grandparents'...

Deadlines and Commitments

Suddenly I feel like I am back in school working on my final thesis. I had a final date that it had to be completed and to not complete...

2022 - Happy New Year

The new year started with me shipping a painting to a buyer, so I was very excited about that. It seems that the Remains of the Day...

Road Trip!!!

Earlier this year I answered a "call for artists" from the Elisabeth Jones Art Center in Portland Oregon. Their rather ambitious goals...

Finding inspiration in Frida

One of my goals for my watercolor class this semester was to find the same bold intense colors in water that I do in oil. As I have been...

Wow, time flies...

I have been painting and creating and didn't even realize how much time had gone by. That is a good thing in these times of isolation. In...

The view from the studio

In mid April I finally captured the view from the studio as the sun was setting on the still snow covered mountain tops in the...