painting – Diane Podolsky

Henna Stall

My friend was at the Jersey shore and told me about a woman in a boardwalk stall looking at her phone between customers. He described the scene as very Hopperesque due to the quiet isolation. I could not resist the idea of this so I did a painting in my sketchbook.

My Mom Eating Cheese

For reasons I do not know I have had an irresistible urge to paint this picture of my Mother so I set myself to that task yesterday in one of my sketchbooks. I remember when I was a teenager my Mom would sit in a chair and watch TV and she also usually had aContinue reading “My Mom Eating Cheese”

Succotash, Painting, Leisure Activities

This may seem like an odd combination of things but it is because last summer I gave a summary of a week’s activities and it was a week that we cleaned the carpet. Well, it is carpet cleaning day again so I figured that was a good reason to repeat that format and fortunately itContinue reading “Succotash, Painting, Leisure Activities”