Manchester-by-the-Sea Outdoor Art Festival
The Manchester Arts Festival takes place this coming Saturday, July 24, 2010, 9am – 6pm. The Festival features a variety of work in many different mediums, all by New England artists. You’ll find – fine art, sculpture, textiles, pottery, jewelry, apparel & accessories, garden ornaments, and photography. Located on beautiful Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Manchester-by-the-Sea, is [...]
New Plein Air Watercolor Painting – “Vents”
As sometimes happens when painting plein air, my recent Plein Air Workshop was visited by rain. As a result, this work which began as a class demo was done while I was sheltered just inside a door to the back deck of the Media Barn at Taraden Bed & Breakfast. The view was of the [...]
Plein Air Painting Workshops
I have three Plein Air Painting workshops scheduled in the upcoming months – Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11, Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26, Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17 – all three meet from 10am to 4pm each day. Plein Air painting developed in the late 18th century and was [...]
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” [...]
“River Valley” – New watercolor landscape painting
4″ x 11″ Private Collection With out going into a lot of detail about why, part of my painting process often leaves me with odd shaped leftover pieces of paper. Many of them are in this “panoramic” format where one dimension is more than twice as long as the other. The shape is well suited [...]
Exhibit Opening – “Back to Basics”
The North Adams Artists Co-op gallery opens a new exhibit called “Back to Basics” next Thursday, May 27. The Opening Reception is Thursday, May 27th, 2010 from 5 to 8pm and is open to the public. The exhibit runs May 27 – June 20, 2010. The theme of the exhibit allows the artist to show [...]
Shade into Light
On Tuesday, I posted a new painting, “Side Street”, which began as demonstration painting. The post is long and covers the composition and color choices made while painting the demo. What was left out of that post was any discussion on another question that came up during the demo and which I have been thinking [...]
New watercolor painting – “Side Street”
12″ x 20″ This painting began as a demonstration painting created for the residents of Equinox Village in Manchester Vermont. The scene is adapted from pencil sketches done on Cape Cod in the early 1990′s. Though the sketches are older, the sense of place from that July morning has stayed with me. Although the Cape [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Covered Bridge
4″ x 9″ Private Collection 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 [...]
New Watercolor Painting – Early Winter Landscape
“Light Dusting” 10″ x 14″ 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 [...]
"Barn Snowscape" – new watercolor landscape painting
“5 x 7″ Private Collection This small work began as a study for a larger composition and took on a life of its own. The main challenge for this work and for the larger painting was in balancing the warm and cool areas and in unifying the colors. The background went in first with yellows, [...]
“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 [...]
“Farmyard” – New Watercolor Landscape Painting
“Farmyard” 9″ x 13″ 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 [...]
"Woods Edge – Afternoon" – watercolor landscape painting
5″ x 7″ Private Collection This small painting begun as a quick sketch study for a larger watercolor work. The painting itself has a nice feel on its own and so became a more finished work. This and other works on this site are available for purchase. Contact me if you have an interest in [...]
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″ 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 [...]
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 England Watercolor Society North American Open Show
“Equinox Road” 20″ x 27″ My painting, “Equinox Road” has been accepted into the 11th Biennial North American Open Exhibition of the New England Watercolor Society. There were 418 works submitted by watermedia artists from all over the United States. One hundred works were accepted. It is a thrill to be included in this prestigious [...]
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 [...]
New Watercolor Landscape in Winter
On January 23, I left a post about a new work that was on the board. That post was a somewhat detailed description and illustration of the process of creating a new painting. It included a number of sketches, both in pencil and in watercolor. Well, the work is finally finished and is presented below [...]
My Painting Process Illustrated
There is a new watercolor painting “on the board”, as I like to put it. The paintings that I create in the studio are stretched on gator board, so anything that I am currently working on is “on the board”. While the painting is not complete, I often get asked about the process creating a [...]