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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“October Leftovers” – New Autumn Painting
“October Leftovers” 10″ x 14″ 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 [...]
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 [...]