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 CommentsCelia Purcell Contemporary is having a showing this month. I am pleased to have her UK representation since 2007. She shows my London street paintings and large French landscapes painted on location in Brittany .
Brittany Fr.
This is my favorite painting resulting from my time in France. It is large, and anyone interested will have to [...]
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; [...]
Last week, I pulled my paintings from my Cape gallery after twenty three years, to change things up.
Now I am represented in Orleans by the Elizabeth Rowley Gallery.
This gallery features very strong impressionist landscape artists, heavy on the Provincetown connection. This is really appealing to me. My oils are loose and getting looser. Capturing a [...]
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 [...]
I know Cape Cod pretty well having lived here most of my life. There are so many beautiful areas, from Chatham where I grew up to Wellfleet where I still have family. Ocean-side Wellfleet and Eastham anytime of year is just outstanding and can be wild and loud with surf. Bay side here is great [...]
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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