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Sketch of the Day – Feb 3, 2012
Silk Road Covered Bridge, Bennington, VT. Like most winter days in VT, it was “cloudy with breaks of sun” as the forecasters like to say. When I sat down to paint, there was sun light hitting the left – south – side of the bridge and some of it was passing through the lattice structure and landing on the white [...]
Sketch of the Day – Feb 2, 2012
Ground Hog Day. Here in Vermont, there was thick cloud cover all day long so no way a ground hog could have seen his shadow and, anyway, it’s been such a mild winter that we’ve essentially been having spring all winter long so far. With the cloud cover, it was impossible to find a nice light effect, but some orange [...]
Sketch of the Day – Feb 1, 2012
I always encourage students in my classes to liberally buy and use sketchbooks to develop their skills. Yet since, last fall when both art and non-art related things started taking up my time, I’ve been ignoring my own sketchbooks. Beginning yesterday, Feb 1, I have a new commitment to liberally buy and use sketchbooks – actually, I won’t need to [...]
New England Watercolor Society Signature Membership
I’m honored to have recently been elected to Signature Membership in the New England Watercolor Society. My painting “Dock” was included in the 2011 Regional Open Juried Exhibition – my forth accepted entry in NEWS exhibitions since 2008, and the one that put me over the top! The New England Watercolor Society is oldest watercolor societies in the country [...]
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“Rose is Rose” – wet into wet watercolor technique demo painting
This painting was begun during a recent class as a demonstration of the wet-in-wet technique, sing a bouquet of various colored roses as the “model”. To paint a realistic looking rose is a challenge, due to their intricate and tightly bunched petals. It takes a great deal of studied observation and skill to realistically render this beautiful flower. As an [...]
Plein Air Watercolor Sketches
Plein Air sketch – cloudy sky and shadowed mountain top Three sketches completed during my weekend class “Painting the Autumn Landscape in Watercolor”.   On Saturday, the first day of the class, we climbed a hillside behind the Taraden Bed & Breakfast in North Bennington, VT to paint the the visible from that spot. It was a beautiful early fall day [...]
New Plein Air work – Cape Ann, MA
After participating in Arts Fest Beverly this past Saturday, I spent two days painting “en plein air” in the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts.  Cape Ann is one of my favorite places to paint – it features quaint New England coastal villages; rocky and rugged north eastern coastlines; picturesque inlets and harbors; and dramatic panoramas of open ocean. Manchester-by-the-Sea is [...]
Notes from Cranford Paint The Town
An intense few days of plein air painting and a surprising amount of difficulty finding public wireless networks in the town kept me from posting any updates about the event during the four days. In any case, I completed eight paintings in three days. The painting above was completed on Saturday during the “Quick Draw” competition. The Qhick Draw requires [...]
New painting – “Glass On Glass”
What, then, to do when the usual subjects are not inspiring me at the moment? The solution generally is to do something different. In this case placing a group of wine bottles in front of my studio’s picture window with the intention of painting some compositions.  This work “Glass on Glass” is the first painting completed.  Glass is difficult due [...]
