Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Red Visitor

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 My home studio has a wonderful Weeping Beech out the window with evergreens and trees in the near distance . Birds wait their turn for see...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

October at Thompson Farm

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It's busy on Saturday in Fall at the farm market so painting involves traffic, conversation and patience.  The Coop on Long Road 11x14 o...

Something Different

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This is big and a break from oil painting . I have a series of sketches of the rocks and roosters at the American Falls which inspired the...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Merit Award

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My little "Hoyt Lake" oil was awarded a Merit Award at the Buffalo Niagara Art Association exhibit in Artists Group Gallery in Buf...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Seneca Chief leaves Buffalo

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Sunflowers of Sanborn 2025

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Love painting here every year. So windy and black clouds that the field was closed by noon.  Sunflower Vanitas oil 11x14" c. 

Prize!

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I entered this in a Buffalo Niagara Art Association exhibition at the Buffalo Erie Botanical Gardens. Quite pleased to be awarded, but then ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

RTPI Jamestown

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Butterfly Garden at RTPI 12x16 oil This painting remains at the institute for a 3 month exhibition this winter. So nice to sit on a comforta...

Panama Rocks sketch

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Urban painting at Darwin Martin house

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About 20 painters showed up! I drew the pergola from the west side, one of the urban artist made it into my drawing. 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Jamestown painting

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Allen Park Pond Butterfly garden at RTPI English Street, Jamestown NY Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown held a plein air event in...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Route 5 near Tifft

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The boats kept moving but this massive grain elevator has sturdy concrete walls. I've been at this site to paint many times over the pas...

A Swim Painting

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Using a long lost and faded dot matrix print as a reference I painted my son catching his breath in the pool. His swim achievements were man...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Twin Cities in the morning

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I worked on this table, near the water's edge to capture the bridge that joins two counties and two towns over the original Erie Canal. ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Rogue Tulips

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Mother's Day tulips continue to bring joy and color to our home and they continued to open as I painted. Rogue Tulips 9x12 oil 

This Turtle Needs Attention

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OLV is hard to see. And rain.

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Sketching the Our Lady of Victory Basilica from my car as clouds threaten. It poured soon but I was able to park closer to see through the r...

Down to river level

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Friday, April 11, 2025

Winner of my NACC fundraising donation

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From the NACC: Congratulations to Nicole Savage on winning the NACC Raffle for Kath Schifano's "Mounds of Mists!" We are deep...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Winter in the studio.

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A big pastel, waiting for the title, is finally finished. Framed , labeled and ready for exhibition. The art is 22x30 but it's matted in...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

UPDATE! An award

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 The Worldwide International Paintout painting from early September was entered to the Buffalo Niagara Art Association Fall exhibit. I was...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

An amazing view each morning.

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Larger than my other paintings made in Italy, this was my view every morning at breakfast. The Tuscan hills changed by the light of the mome...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Perhaps my favorite

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The beautiful groomed grounds of the Tuscany estate include classical statuary and pottery, artfully placed. There are are scented gardens,...

Additions to the Relais collections

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These two stayed in Italy in the collection of Relais Borgo Santo Pietro. The painting is Casa Linda, one of the residence villas, the grand...

Artista in residence

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That's me, the Artista, at my studio and a view of the inside with some of the October paintings.
Sunday, November 3, 2024

4 more pen drawings from Italy

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Just outside Borgo Santo Pietro is a tiny town of Palazzetto, with one little bar/deli/coffeeshop. Apparently the pizza is very good but I j...