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 CommentsRevisited, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I don’t have to guess if my students are in a hurry. They tell me one way or another, every week.
Every week of every class I have ever taught a student at some level has expressed their urgent needs. Yes they are all in a rush, to what I wonder?
To paint well? The best they [...]
I have gotten used to looking like an idiot while taking my photos a long time ago. So when I go to Fenway and stand in the street framing my reference shots for my paintings, if I am stopping traffic, well…then I am stopping traffic.
I do this alone. Whoever I go with I just say, [...]
It feels like Edinburgh here in Massachusetts. It’s been raining and raining. This is what people mean when they say the Cape has no spring. Because we have weather like this and then it just turns hot for three months.
Yesterday my studio was warm with a fire in the wood-stove, and a new painting on [...]
The Cape Cod Canal and it’s bridges are sneaking into my paintings. This is an area that I love to go and to capture with the paint. It is the gateway to Cape Cod, your introduction. This is the area that defines the region whether you are coming to the Cape or leaving it.
When coming [...]
Tools of the Trade
Published by March 19th, 2009 in Blog, Mono Prints, art teacher and printmaking. 0 CommentsI talk a lot about palettes and supplies.
My studio palette as noted in a previous post is a big slab of marble that I love to work on. Years ago when I was just starting to paint I bought a folding black medal palette for my watercolors. Eventually it turned into my travel palette because [...]
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