Showing posts with label studio winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studio winter. Show all posts
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Pillbox Hats in the Studio

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Mom always wore a pillbox hat to go out, and a neighbor gave me a few more in their original boxes to use at school. For years, the boxes...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Indoors in the Winter, Commission Painting

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 A new customer inquired about two paintings she had previously seen, one at the Junior League Buffalo Showhouse and the other on my website...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Snowy Masterviews

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It was a gray winter and I had few opportunities to paint outdoors. This year's weather inspired me to do only 3 paintings in snow. My r...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Birthday Bouquet

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Birthday Bouquet, 2023 This studio floral 20" by 24” (oil on canvas) belongs over a couch and I had a stunning wide frame prepared for ...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Classic cars committed to canvas

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Nearly finished My assignment was to use individual color reference photos of two cars, combine them with another image of an old building a...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Putting color into a still life

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My dear friend Raquel brought me a spectacular bouquet of tulips which kept expanding in the winter light, reaching taller and wider until ...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Out The Window and Fresh Snow

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Winter plein air paintings are exciting. And FAST! However, I have become progressively lazier when it comes to painting outdoors in the wi...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Studio painting from a plein air reference.

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Using my own plein air painting as a reference for a large painting is pretty unusual. I have 'tried' it twice before and although...
Friday, June 5, 2015

A plein air inspires a studio painting

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On March 28 I wrote about an oil painting that was about to be installed in a dental office. It was quite recent and I really liked the cap...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

NACC Artist and Friends Exhibition

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These two large paintings are displayed at the NACC for the Buffalo Niagara Art Association Spring juried exhibit. This show is in the l...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

WIne On Third WInter displays

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Winter Night's Dawn c. K. Schifano Impact Artists Gallery held a satellite exhibit at Wine On Third , Niagara Falls. These two oi...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Monica's Mists and her frame

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Started last winter, this sat unfinished, clipped to a huge backing board and behind the door, for months while my wrist healed. I took it...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Snow Day from the Studio Window

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 We have planted a variety of evergreens since building this house, some blue, green, droopy, in sets of three, short, fluffy, flat and o...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

WInter in the Schifano Studio

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Kath Schifano, Winter Divot  Is it climate change? Am I just lazy? Is it age? I have a harder time each winter choosing 'good days...
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Monday, March 4, 2013

Painting Grand Island

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Too cold and gloomy to paint out,  I have just finished painting a studio commission. This is another one of those 'surprise' paint...
Monday, January 7, 2013

There is no Planning for Customers' Tastes.

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During a Christmas season a few years ago I sold quite a few Niagara Falls area paintings, they are often sought after for gifts by local ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Serendipity Success

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c. Kath Schifano 2012 Different in technique from other Botanical Gardens paintings, this orchid spray deserves an explanation. The orch...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A tale of two house portraits.

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Several years ago, I painted a newly landscaped DeVeaux home (shown below) for Michele Altman, she wanted to surprise her husband for Chri...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Moon is A Balloon, 2011 & Wine On Third

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 Years ago I started this rose painting, it was one of my early large floral pastels. It was matted & framed under glass-until the glass...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Rivershore colors

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This Cayuga Island home portrait has been in progress on my easel for nearly 3 months and it is leaving me as a surprise gift to the homeown...