Black is Back:
Black tie
Black lace
Black magic
Black velvet
Black leather
Black is beautiful
Oprah, Miley Cyrus, Cynthia Arivo, Margaret Qualley, Bowen Yang
Pastel 8x10, ©J. Bohoy 2025
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Feel, Swirl, Jump, Roll, Release. Move your body. And dance!
"Alaska Watch" © Johanna Bohoy, 2014, pastel.
Alaska watch–
Out come the cameras and phones. Almost tipping the boat into waves.
Capturing mountains and glaciers ahead.
And a humpback? an otter? an Orca? a seal?
Sights to see and send home.
Heading to Surprise Glacier, Alaska
"Surprise Glacier" © Johanna Bohoy, 2014, Watercolor, 20 x 16
Surprise–
It's a glacier.
An ice sculpture framed by the mountains.
Groaning, cracking, spouting, melting- calving into the sound.
Baby blue reflected from the sky above.
Chunks of ice swim over to greet us.
Little ships built by hundreds of years of compressed snow- now set sail.
A wonder of nature before our eyes.
Surprise Glacier, Alaska.
There's gold in them there hills...
Hatcher Pass, Alaska.
Through the rolling hills and roiling mist a shrouded vestige of the past appears.
Peaks of red that sheltered the miners of the Alaska Pacific Mining Company dot the velvety green pass.
Ghostly mists and fog and clouds hover above, all secretly holding the stories
of the men seeking their fortunes that came to a halt during WWII.
Eerily beautiful.
Gloved & Glamourous
Like the turn of the century ladies, when gloves were de rigueur for proper etiquette, and were objects of luxury, elegance and refinement, these stars covered their arms on the runway. But it was not for the reason of etiquette (note the exposed shoulders & decollage)— it was all about the fashion.
Laverne Cox, Ruth E. Carter, Emily Blunt and Deepika Padukone.
Pastel, 10x8
It's dawn.
Aqua mist reveals:
the hills; the castle; the velvet greens.
the moss, the mounds; a mirrored lake.
A silent Irish beauty.
1974, Acrylic, 26x26
Artist's collection.
Boston Ballet brings them.
The Opera House stage.
Feathers fly: Odette and Odile vie for the prince.
Good vs evil.
A sea of white glides on Swan Lake as my favorite Tchaikovsky music swells.
Pastel paintings done previously in 2008 to 2014. Prints available.
Omar Khayyam
Have a memorable holiday and a happy New Year.
Mixed media painting collage
Pastel & Mixed Media
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.
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