I 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 [...]
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New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Regional Juried Exhibition Of Contemporary Art
Published by October 13th, 2009 in Art. 2 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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