"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." –painting collage by Johanna Bohoy

"Be happy for this moment. 
This moment is your life." 

Omar Khayyam

Have a memorable holiday and a happy New Year.

Mixed media painting collage

Hastings House- watercolor by Johanna Bohoy

 

"A house is not a home"as the song goes. 

But this house is a home to the residents of Beverly Farms, MA. An historical community house that provides space for fun and festive public and private events.

As thanks for our using it recently to practice the waltz for the film series 

“The Gilded Age,” I painted this watercolor of the "Hastings House" to hang for prosperity.

Watercolor 11x 9.

My painting "Group Hug" was just awarded "Artwork Best Representing Theme" in the Historic Beverly exhibit "Strength, Perseverance and Hope" which emphasized our pandemic experience.

The art was judged by art specialists, but also by some people from the local community– which made it even more special to me.

My other painting "Last Hug," also in the exhibit, depicted the show's theme as well– almost more so, as it features a good friend who truly experienced strength, perseverance and hope.

Pastel & Mixed Media 

Popsicles! pastel painting by Johanna Bohoy

August. 

Hot and humid.

Ice on 2 sticks.

Grape, cherry, orange.

Companions for companions.

8"x10" Pastel  [SOLD-Texas]
 

Thank You Basket illustration by Bohoy

Watercolor illustration of food products for Massachusetts Specialty Food's "Thank You Basket. "

 

Daisy

That dog in the window

A fluff of white

Watching; waiting

They're gone!

Where's the chocolate.

Pastel, 8x10.

 

Oscars Red Carpet 2021-Wings on the Runway ©Bohoy

No runway to speak of.

No zoom; no masks.

No hosts to boast.

Big shoulders. 

With wings of freedom.

Mixed media, 10x8.

 

 

In Bermuda there was beautiful young schoolgirl on a bus dressed in brights that matched the houses and flowers that whizzed by. I did not see that she was black. I saw a colorful child that I needed to paint.

When I had my very first job as a teen painting signs in Corning, New York I saw a hilarious man that I respected who was my first boss. I did not see that he was black. 

When I hired a photographer at my first design job in Boston I saw a talented, wonderful man who took the creative photos that I needed. I did not see that he was black. 

It wasn’t even a thought in my head each time. NOT  THOUGHT.

What is wrong with those in our world that don’t see a person as a person. 

 

The newborns.

Glad to be alive. 

Frolic and dance, bounce and bob, jump, and scamper, and skip on the green.

Spring is coming.

HURRAY.

Pastel, 5x7, 2009, British Isles.

Snow surfs up- pastel painting©Bohoy

Snow's down.
Surf's up.
Sky's slate.
Souls search.

Pastel, 2008, SOLD