Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • The 12 Paintings of Christmas

    The Twelve Days Paintings of Christmas Holiday Special! I will be auctioning 12 original oil paintings to celebrate the Holiday season. This is painting #1, “Midnight Birches”. Between now and Christmas you can bid on 12 different paintings as gifts for yourself or a loved one. The auctions will last 3 days each with a…

  • Cheap Art Manifesto

    Yes, art should be cheap but cheap is a relative term. It can not be so cheap that the artists who make it can not afford to live a decent life. During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) paid artists to create. Whose idea was that? Many of these artists went on to…

  • Of Deities and Emperors

    Fifth day, 13th, Eleventh month, 2014. Do you understand this? Some folks call this Quaker-speak. This is normally written Thursday, November 13th, 2014. I recently became administrator of my Meeting’s (this is what Quakers call their congregation) website. In reviewing the format of the website I was faced with choices. For example; what day of the…

  • Transcendence

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSY6IqNuEKo A Late Walk When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew, Half closes the garden path. And when I come to the garden ground, The whir of sober birds Up from the tangle of withered weeds Is sadder than any words A tree beside…

  • Yellow, Orange, Red

    Yellow, orange, red, maroon, tan, brown = Naples yellow, cadmium orange, scarlet lake, alizarin crimson, ochre, raw sienna, burnt umber = Autumn psalm 163~RVJart.com~Turning Art.com