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 [...]
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 [...]
Arts Fest Beverly
Arts Fest Beverly takes place tomorrow, Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 10am – 4pm on Cabot Street in Beverly Massachusetts. Over 100 artists and crafters, including myself, will be offering a range of unique items. “White Boat, Red Boat” is one of the 18 original paintings I’ll be exhibiting, along with limited edition gliclee’ prints [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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, [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Winter Landscape
“Snow Cover Landscape” 5″ x 7″ Private Collection Having lived in Vermont for the past 20+ years has not made it easier for me to endure winter. It is long, cold and dark. Worse, there is usually not a warm spring with gentle rain and bright flowers as a reward. People from places that have [...]
New Sketch
This is a quick sketch of two of my wife’s watering cans done as a demo for a recent class. The cans sit on a table top and were catching the bright late summer light. The pattern of light and shadows caught the eye of one of the students so we used it as the [...]
Open Studio Weekend
Vermont’s natural scenic beauty is enhanced each spring when the work of Vermont artists and craftspeople can be seen firsthand during Vermont’s 17th annual Open Studio Weekend May 23-24. My studio will be open from 10am – 5pm both Saturday and Sunday, May 23 & 24. I’m looking forward to again welcoming visitors my studio, [...]
Open Studio
Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Weekend – Memorial Day Weekend, May 24 & 25 – 10am – 5pm Once again, my studio along with more than 280 others will be open to the public on Memorial Day Weekend. This is my third year participating in this event. I look forward to hosting old and new [...]