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 [...]
New Painting – “Beached”
In my post on May 6, I mentioned that my usual landscape subjects were not inspiring me and that the my usual solution to lack of inspiration is to work on something new. At that time, I began working on a still life composed of wine bottles placed in front of my studio’s picture window. [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Open Studio Weekend 2010 – May 29 & 30, 2010
Most Vermont craftspeople work in studios located in or close to their residences. These are places of production and inspiration located in downtowns as well as at the ends of dirt roads. Wherever their locations, they are exciting places to visit because they reflect the dynamic yet organized process that is used to produce the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
“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 [...]
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
“Cape Ann Walk” 9 x 13 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 [...]
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 [...]