Archive for the 'Boston' Category



Fenway Game Day

Sold These images are of a new painting in progress, inspired from last Saturdays game. I drew it in and let it set up- to dry, for a few days before working back into it. I like to try and treat the painting loosely adding a lot of color right away to get the feel [...]

Fenway

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 [...]

Fenway Art

2009 0il 12″x 20″  Center Field Fenway Park, by Loretta Feeney On the warmest day of the year, as I write at my kitchen table,  the  Red Sox have won nine games in a row. My life is revolving around their schedule. I don’t have to watch them on television, but I love to listen [...]

Are You Afraid to Make a Committment?

No? You should be. When starting a painting,  being afraid to commit is a very good thing.  That is right where you want to be.  I tell my students to take their time. What is the rush to get locked in?  It’s  good  not to be able to tell a figure from a tree trunk [...]

New Fenway Painting

This 2008 Fenway Park painting by Loretta Feeney is so fresh it’s still wet.

Contemporary Art Auctions

Are contemporary art auctions good news for living artists? If I was a professional ballplayer, at my age, I would definitely be retired from hopefully a long career. But I am not. I am a professional artist, just hitting my stride, mid career, in my forties. There has been a lot of talk about the [...]

Summer Birds

You know in Brittany France this time of year it doesn’t get dark till after ten p.m. at night. The birds chirp right up to the end too. I would listen to them in astonishment, even when it was dark. They would be so beautiful singing everyone to sleep. It made me think New England [...]

The Cape Cod School of Art

If you type in your web browser www.capecodschoolofart.com -it goes straight to Lois Griffel’s Arizona web site. The Cape Cod School of Art was an important little school in Provincetown. It was founded by Charles Hawthorne in 1899. He is really credited with Cape Cod Massachusetts and Provincetown in particular becoming a world class art [...]

Cape Cod Painting on Location

On location early July 2008. High tide coming in so I needed to work fast. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mSBd_9XIs] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkCfdsWnZc] This canvas 24×36″ is finishing up very strong after a loose start on site. When I am on location I am just trying to gather information and get a groove going with the painting. Get a feel for [...]

Fenway in the Rain

Manny’s hair is getting long.