As I load more wood into the studio stove I think about my old friends walking through my paintings.
A highlight-dot of color, is how I began to insert figures into my landscapes as a focal point. They were so vague and uncommitted, people would ask, “is that light spot a figure back there?”
Over the years [...]
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Evolving Locations
Published by February 14th, 2010 in Art, Blog, Boston, art teacher, fine art and painting on location. 0 CommentsThis week opens a big show curated by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
It’s billed as “A Major Exhibition of Over Fifty-Five Cape Cod Artists” shown at the Cotuit Center of the Arts. The exhibition is called First Things First.
I was free to choose any painting, and I quickly chose a new 18×24″ canvas of [...]
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This is a oil painting of skaters on the Frog Pond near Beacon Hill. I am posting it to begin getting this site in the Christmas season with a link to the gallery where it is available.
The Elizabeth Rowley Gallery has an opening today from 4-6pm to showcase new paintings for Christmas time.
I will be [...]
New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Regional Juried Exhibition Of Contemporary Art
Published by October 13th, 2009 in Art. 2 CommentsI am pleased to announce my monotype entry “Inauguration Day Parade” has been selected for the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Biennial Exhibition 2009. It was one of 44 selected out of over 400 entries. The exhibition runs November 9 – December 4, 2009.
For more information
please contact:
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Alison Williams, Gallery Director
148 Concord [...]
Revisited, Reinventing, Refreshed
Published by September 17th, 2009 in Art, Blog, Orleans gallery, art teacher and fine art. 3 CommentsPainting what you love is the artists job. To take the activities and places that move you, and capture them in paint is what it is all about. Whether it is color combination’s you want to experiment with, or new techniques you are excited to try, this is where it is at for the creative [...]
Painting Boston on Location
Published by September 7th, 2009 in Blog, Boston and painting on location. 0 CommentsPainting on location scares artists. Or I should say the thought, scares artists that don’t have a lot of experience painting outside. Years from now, I will look back on my life’s work and it will be the on- location work that sticks in my memory, not the studio days.
The wind, the bugs, the tourists; [...]
August Studio
Published by August 22nd, 2009 in Blog, FenwayArt, Orleans gallery and art teacher. 1 CommentI was going to just post this recent shot of my studio without comment. Because I just really want to get painting this morning. Then I thought, most people are not used to seeing this kind of organized chaos. Maybe a short post would be more sufficient.
It looks like this, because I always walk past [...]
Sometimes you notice a couple random colors against each other somewhere and a new painting can come to you.
These could be two colors on a blouse. Two colors on my palette or on a scrap of someones old discarded paper. A deep green against a deeper blue and it takes me instantly back to Gloucester [...]
This is a painting of Esty Street down near Hyannis Harbor. It is a Barnstable Land Trust property. A small preserved parcel between the Nantucket Sound and old bungalow cottages. This painting is of a small example of Cape Cod’s small wet lands that are often filled in by developers. The air is rife [...]
My students are doing very good work. I can line up 12-20 studies by them done in class, and they are all different and they all have supreme potential.
Do you know when you are painting well?
Do you know when you are in trouble?
Do you know when it’s time to take it up a notch with [...]
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