Painting McCartney

11/10/2024

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07/10/2024

It's finally here!!! So looking forward to this!!

Local artist Maggie McCue Barnes (Painting McCartney) began a painting project inspired by Paul McCartney's post-Beatles catalog that propelled her quest to find harmony in chaos. You can check out her work at beginning with the opening reception on Thursday, July 11 from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. (free and open to the public). You can also view Maggie's paintings, inspired by McCartney's LIVERPOOL ORATORIO, which will be on display in the P&G Founders Room at Music Hall throughout the run of Cincinnati Opera's world stage premiere of PAUL MCCARTNEY'S LIVERPOOL ORATORIO, July 18-27.

Visit: https://www.washparkart.com/Current-Exhibit.html

06/23/2024

Big Boys Bickering
(Off The Ground)
14x14 Oil
“Big boys bickering
That’s what they’re doin’ ev’ryday
Big boys bickering
F**kin’ it up for ev’ryone, ev’ryone

Guess while they’re betting on the track
They’re tryin’ to win your money back
All of the taxes that you paid
Went to fund a masquerade

Big boys bickering
That’s what they’re doin’ all the day
Big boys bickering
F**kin’ it up in ev’ry way, ev’ry way”
“If I’m talking about the ozone layer and the big hole in it – 50 miles wide hole – I don’t think “well, that’s a flippin’ hole” I think that’s a fu***ng big hole” -Paul McCartney

06/19/2024

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Let ‘Em In
(from At The Speed of Sound)
14”x14”
switching over to acrylic paint for next couple weeks. That way paintings will have time to dry before July 11 gallery opening. What a delight! I had forgotten just how much I adore acrylic paints. Ease and flow baby ease and flow. They were the first medium I used when I began painting. I painted exclusively an acrylic for the first 10 years. Very much enjoying today!

06/18/2024

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If You Wanna
(From Flaming Pie Album)
14”x14” Oil
Happy happy Birthday ! Like in this song, I hope you’re “making arrangements for the trip” to Cincinnati for your Liverpool Oratorio stage production world premiere !! Also! To stop by the neighboring and gorgeous gallery to experience a beautifully curated selection of work from many of Cincinnati’s finest artists including highlights from my Painting McCartney collection - July 11 - Aug 3. Hope to see ya there!

06/10/2024

William "Bootsy" Collins! agrees - let’s Cincinnati!

06/09/2024

Could there possibly be a better way to commemorate the sacred portal between a truly metamorphic plein-air-painting-bootcamp experience and the reentry into my current magical & ever-expanding studio project? Nope. Not one that I can think of anyway.

Last night, I spent an evening in Paris. And for one magical hour, I sat enchanted, sketching in the hauntingly beautiful and intimate nave of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, mesmerized by Samuel Bismut’s impeccably rendered, deeply moving, and emotionally poetic expressions of several of Chopin’s finest.

I’m a beginner at sketching from life, and hoping that my sharing of this might offer someone even the slightest spark of inspiration I experienced yesterday.

Keep sharing your unique voice with the world and - the work you are doing here matters 🩵

06/07/2024

06/04/2024

Doing some cross-training this week in the South of France with , painting out in the fresh air, in nature. It’s been a great opportunity to reflect and let the Painting McCartney ideas percolate 😎 This is me with Vincent, sorting out the best view from which to paint! 🖼️
[pleinair, vincentvangogh, stremy, paulmccartney, crosstraining]