Upcoming Show!
‘Sailing Away‘ takes place in April. It’ll feature all new paintings of Charons and sirens. There’s a reception planned for Friday, April, 24, so mark your calendars and bring your friends! Click here to sign up for the show mailing list to keep up to date with this show and more future events.
Congratulations! You’ve found a weird corner of the internet where art and dumb things coexist. Schliefkevision is the online home of Kansas City painter Michael Schliefke. In addition to monthly studio updates, online portfolio and all the other trappings you’d expect on an artist website, there’s a bunch more stuff here added continuously.
You’ll find art reviews, trip reports, and odd writings from whatever thing is taking up too much of Michael’s brain space when he sits down to write. There’s also links to private art classes for anybody looking to learn to paint or draw. So spend some time on the site and look around.
Here are some recent links and categorized posts to get you going:
Recent Posts:
Here’s all the latest news and stories I’ve uploaded to this very site!
- Sailing Away : New Paintings
- March ’23 Studio Update
- Grappling with Renoir
- Boîte de Pierre Tombale
- The Shroud of Turin Beach Towel
- My Stupid Human Trick
- February ’23 Studio Update
- Things to Do in Kansas City!
- Crumbles and Noodles: Potato Chips and Cottage Cheese
- Latest Paintings
- January ’23 Studio Update
- Crumbles & Noodles: CrapDonald’s Crappy Meals
Working on Art (progress in studio):
Every month I write a little bit and share some pictures of what’s going on in my studio. These are those updates. Fair warning, most written late at night under the intoxication of mineral spirits.
- March ’23 Studio Update
- February ’23 Studio Update
- January ’23 Studio Update
- December ’22 Studio Update
- November ’22 Studio Update
- October ’22 Studio Update
Looking at Art (art reviews and views):
Art I’ve seen and thought about enough to write longer than they have a right to be stories. All opinions are mine, all facts are poorly researched:
- Grappling with Renoir
- John Singer Sargent Murals – Boston Public Library
- A Visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Goya/Chagoya at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
- Robert Colescott at the New Museum
- Hughie Lee-Smith at Karma Gallery- NYC 9/22
- TJ Templeton at Smalter Gallery, KCMO 9/22
- A Revealing Look at Thomas Hart Benton
- Ralph Steadman at KC Library
- Norman Rockwell’s Technique – Peak Whites
Travels
Stories, writings and other musings from places I’ve visited. Just dumb experiences seen through the eyes of a Kansas City painter, this isn’t tripadvisor.
- Things to Do in Kansas City!
- A Visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Old Haunts of Boston and Cambridge
- Robert Colescott at the New Museum
- I Recall New York in Fall
- Hughie Lee-Smith at Karma Gallery- NYC 9/22
- JFK’s TWA Hotel
- My End of 2021 Trip
- ¡New York, New York!
- ¡Bilbao, Spain!
- ¡Lisbon Sidewalks & More!
- ¡Sintra, Portugal!
- ¡Lisbon, Portugal!
- ¡Back in Madrid!
- ¡Segovia, Spain!
- ¡Toledo, Spain!
- ¡Madrid, Spain!
- Visiting America’s Stonehenge
- The Louvre: Day One
- December ’19 Studio Update: The Louvre
- A trip to Europe, December 2019
- Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum
- April ’18 Studio Update
- The Harry S Truman Peace Bridge
- Family Time
- Meanwhile, in Prairie Village, Kansas…
- Painting a Mural, Part 2
- Painting a mural in Kerrville, Part 1
- Famous Lunch