2nd Annual “One Hundred for $100″ Art Exhibit and Sale
“Barn Snowscape”
The Better Bennington Corp’s annual downtown art event will take place on Friday, March19th and Saturday, March 20th, in the 210 South Street Building <link to Google map> in downtown Bennington. One hundred works of art by local and regional artists will be exhibited and offered for sale for $100.00 each.
The first One Hundred [...]
Plein Air Paint Out Event – Cranford NJ June 9 – 13, 2010
Myself, along with 31 other nationally known fine artists will be descending on Cranford, NJ to PAINT THE TOWN! The artists will transform Cranford into a town-sized outdoor painting studio for three days. The event culminates in a grand finale show and sale of all artwork. All participating artists are accomplished and jury-selected artists and [...]
Upcoming Watercolor Painting Class
Watercolor- Beyond the Basics, Tuesdays, March 16– April 6, 6:00 – 8:30pm.
A follow-on to the Basic Watercolor class, this popular class will continue to help unravel the mysterious ways of the watercolor medium. With a focus on the fundamentals, participants learn the basic skills needed to successfully paint with watercolor. The class is designed for [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Covered Bridge
4″ x 9″
$99
Since it has been non-stop snow here lately it has been hard to get outside for new material. In the case of this small watercolor painting, I went back to my sketch books. Covered bridges are plentiful in Vermont and are painted by many. It can be hard to take on a subject [...]
“Just Desserts” – Art Exhibit, North Adams Artists’ Cooperative Gallery
Exhibit on view from February 25 to March 22, with an Opening Reception which is open to the public on Thursday, February 25th, 5-7 pm
Just Desserts: the sweet and not-so-sweet juried art exhibition featuring fine art and fine craft created by its members and nonmember regional artists.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, a representational [...]
New Watercolor Painting – Early Winter Landscape
“Light Dusting”
10″ x 14″
$395
This scene could depict either the early time of winter when light snows begin to cover the fields, or late winter when the snow cover is receding. The title gives a hint that it is early winter and in fact that time of year is the inspiration. Unlike most of my work, [...]
Gallery Exhibit – “”Fresh Paint, Hot Pots, Dressed Wood”
The latest exhibition of North Adams Artists Co-op continuing members’ latest masterpieces and the introduction of our newest members to the public. While “fresh paint” will fill the air with “just off the easel paintings”, “hot pots” will emerge from the kiln with surprises in store for both artist and viewer.
My watercolor painting “Calla Lilies [...]
“Rural Route” – watercolor landscape painting
“Rural Route”
5″ x 22″
This watercolor painting is unusual in several ways. It began as a warm up excercise using an oddly shaped leftover piece of watercolor paper and leftover paint from the mixing areas of my studio palette. Using a single brush for the entire painting – one of my favorite 1″ flats (Winsor Newton [...]
Winter Watercolor Class
“East Bank, West River”
Winter Watercolor Warmup
Saturday & Sunday, February 6 & 7, 2010 – 10am to 4pm
This studio class is the perfect way to warm up your watercolor skills. This two-day workshop will be held in the Classroom space of the Taraden Bed & Breakfast Media Barn, North Bennington, VT.
We’ll begin each day will [...]
“Farmyard” – New Watercolor Landscape Painting
“Farmyard”
9″ x 13″
$325
This is one of what I often describe as one of my “drive by” paintings. Most of my paintings are the result of series of sketches and studies that culminate in a so-called finished painting. Sketches completed on location are usually the starting point in this process, and I very much enjoy the [...]
“Uphill Farm” – New Watercolor Painting
“Uphill Farm“
9″ x 13″
$325
All of the recent snow has made begin to think of days when there is no snow on the ground. This work is the end result of a series of on site and exploratory sketches – the whole process is described on my artists’ blog. The work depicts bright sunshine and surprisingly [...]
“October Leftovers” – New Autumn Painting
“October Leftovers”
10″ x 14″
$425
Another painting of the autumn season. The look of moving water reflecting the colors of the environment around it has become a new inspiration for my work recently. Like “Late Autumn – White Creek“, this painting features a stream and its banks, along with the trunks of the trees near the ground. [...]
New Painting Depicting Autumn
“Late Autumn – White Creek“
11″ x 15″
Private Collection
The change of season from summer to fall to winter is rapid and dramatic from late September through late October. I have several works that explore this theme currently underway. This is the first of the works to be completed. More to come.
New Autumn Landscape
“Golden Afternoon”
11″ x 15″
$425
This painting began as a way to experiment with a new color, Daniel Smith’s Quinacridone Deep Gold. My palette doesn’t change much in that I generally stick with colors and brands that I am used to, this one caught my eye while browsing the Daniel Smith catalog. Once the paint arrived, I [...]
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
“Cape Ann Walk”
9 x 13
$350
This work began as a demo for my Cape Ann Workshop, which took place June 22 – 25, 2009. Unlike most of my work, this one began using a reference photo taken by one of the students. The photo depicted a gray, rainy day on which a few brave souls decided [...]
New Work – Thinking of Summer
Officially out of winter mode – my latest work is pictured below. This work was inspired by a few things; a simple demo for one of my classes on creating rather than using tube grays, making plans for a summer class at the coast, and a simple sketch found in one of my sketchbooks.
”Sunrise”
9″ x [...]
The End of Winter
This is my last winter painting for the year. This one, titled “Late Winter”, is from a real location near White Creek, NY and was drawn in a sketchbook some years ago. The painting is imbued with the feeling of late winter. Generally, March is the time when fields begin to emerge from under the [...]
New Winter Work
As winter winds down here in the great white north, I am finishing up some winter themed works. The latest is this one.
“Up Country“
9″ x 13″
Although the work seems only to depict winter at its coldest – snow everywhere, half frozen river, and even a lifeless sky
drained of color and movement by the cold. In [...]
New Work – The light of November
”Early November”
A depiction of the light of early November on the leafless and wizend tree. Trees, particularly weathered old trees are always inspiring to me. This work is based on sketches of another tree sketched and painted on location in Boston. For more information on the process of painting this tree, see my artists blog.
Interested [...]
New Work, Designing Winter
“Farm In Winter”
9″ x 12″
Don’t get the wrong impression, I am not pining for winter. Although I am not a winter sort of guy - I exist mostly indoors with a mug of hot tea not far away from December to April – there are many things that I find very paintable in the winter [...]
Latest Painting – Rural Theme, Summer Season
“Afternoon Farm”
20″ x 28″
Private Collection
This painting is one of a series of works completed this summer (see “Along The Way“) that celebrate rural scenery, roads, farms & fields. Although I sometimes question the thought during the dreary days in January, February and March, I really am fortunate to live and work in such a [...]
Summer Work
A quick browse through my galleries will make it obvious that light on trees, especially on the trunks of the trees, is a favorite theme and subject.Many times, my studio paintings begin with an older sketch, developed through a series of thumbnails, often followed by a color study or two. This latest work began [...]
New Work – Light, Color, Contrast
My latest work is a departure from the paintings inspired by the current season. This work is titled “Crow Foot” and represents a departure from my “normal” work in several ways.
“Crow Foot”
20″ x 20″
This work looks more like autumn than any other, although I had no particular season in mind. This work is more [...]
New Painting Celebrates the Change of Season
“Equinox Road”
20″h x 27″W
This work is available – contact me for more information
This work, with its final details and adjustments made only a few days ago, represents the final statement of a series of explorations in paint. It’s title, as well as the painting itself is more metaphorical than literal. The idea [...]