Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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A painter in Italy with whom I share membership in International Plein Air Painters  posted an essay about why painting is a miracle & w...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Formerly Niagara Falls High School

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The NACC celebrated with the Italian Festival on Pine Avenue last month, I painted this corinthian capital while the music played on the ste...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Music is Art in Buffalo

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Yeah, it rained, but hardy umbrella toting families crawled the grounds of the Albright Knox Art Museum on Saturday, September 13. It was su...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Music is Art at Albright Knox Art Gallery

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This Saturday---I'll be there with my artwork. Bringing prints & cards & a few originals for the walls, but mostly I am looking ...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

More water

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Standing on the overlook between the American Falls & the Rainbow bridge to paint this, large groups of tourists would occasionally pass...
Monday, September 1, 2008

An apple a Day

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The title is only relative to the fact that it is the night before school starts, and all over teachers & students are flipping in their...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Summer Street Project

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1. Developing the perspective and selecting the light for this Summer Street painting turned out to be the easy part. 2. My photo referen...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

New painter in town

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It took until after 1 am to arrive in Buffalo, but Sandi & Bobbie were here for the weekend. They left the bad weather in NYC to enjoy b...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Torrit Grey Competition

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An annual painting contest limits artists to painting with white, black & the annual 'Torrit grey'. It is created by the Gamblin...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

402 Summer Street

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NFPAP artists visited the cottage district again this year for one of our summer paintouts, with GVPAP. I had walked the area on the weekend...
Monday, August 4, 2008

2009 Calendar Goes to Press

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The calendar went to the printer today. There were a few glitches along the way-my errors, because the screen images could not match the pro...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008

7-7-77, 9-15-95

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A house is just a building, but when does it actually become a home? Capturing the shadows on the porch, rear dormer, power lines and the si...

Lewiston Art Festival

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Lewiston Council on the Arts sponsors an annual juried fine art show. Nothing is to be mass produced, commercial or less than best quality a...

Bursting Bud

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Lifted from the Perry, NY website-with permission, of course, this is the rose bursting out of it's borders at the Perry Chalk Festival ...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Perry Chalk Festival

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July 6 Buffalo News stated that the July 12th Perry Chalk Festival was a 'best bet' in entertainment for the day. The Central NY Ti...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Letchworth State Park Paintings

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So many beautiful days to make paintings & other public art responsibilities in such a short time set my paperwork, record keeping &...
Sunday, July 6, 2008

Featured at the NACC

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Click here-- The NACC - Niagara Arts and Cultural Center That's my painting, 'Youngstown Secret Garden', featured on their we...

Positively Main Street

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All day Saturday, people were smiling & visiting on Main Street of Niagara Falls from Cedar to Chilton for art, music, food and entertai...
Monday, June 30, 2008

NACC press release features KS painting

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My painting, 'The Secret Garden' was selected to head a press release for the NACC summer exhibition 'Beyond the Barrel' Go ...

East Aurora NY weekend art show

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It was called the 55th East Aurora Art Association Show, but I would call it a rainy weekend. Friday, June 27 Carl & I set up the tent a...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

June at Niagara Falls

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There was a chance of showers, but the sun was out, so I headed to the State Park to challenge the rapids. The 2006  'Islands in the Cur...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

NACC opening preview

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Friday, June 20 is the opening for the 5th annual 'Beyond the Barrel' show in Niagara Falls, NY. I have two pieces accepted in this ...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Letchworth State Park Weekend

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Spent the last weekend en plein air  & completed three oils, a pastel & a small watercolor. Sherrill & I went to Letchworth Stat...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Plein air rain out success

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Sometimes a painting chooses itself. A few fresh cut carnations sat in the studio for several weeks. After removing some spent stems & r...

Frontier House, Lewiston NY

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The yellow building is now known as The Chocolate House, while the larger one is the Frontier House, a classic 'Lincoln slept here' ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

A Florida Room in South Park, Buffalo

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My final indoor Thursday painting at Buffalo Botanical Gardens was right before Easter. We stop painting there during holidays because the c...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Spring in Prospect Park-Niagara Falls

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Unfinished, I have to share this bit of Springtime. Tulips, forsythia, fruit trees in bloom, buds & blossoms everywhere. Started yesterd...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Niagara Falls Paintings

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Painting outdoors is definitely seasonal. Although I paint outdoors in the winter, the warm weather has a greater appeal. It's time to p...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The April Calendar picture

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Last Spring I purchased this Primula at the Botanical Gardens. It spent weeks-months, maybe, in the dining room before I brought it up to si...

Travels as it Dries

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This juicy rose is home again, and pleasing me at the end of the hall. It was delivered, still wet, to the NACC solo show February 1st. It d...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Buckhorn State Park

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As I pack up sweaters and gloves for the season, I find myself putting snow pictures away as well. Painted last year, this is the road throu...

Painting Night in Winter

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This gem was inspired by the best (and final) snowfall of the winter. It had snowed lightly, but steadily all weekend, trees were spectacula...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Painting at Night

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Painting at night seemed like  a serious challenge, and the coolest gift of 2006 was a hat with headlights, so I could see the colors on the...
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Not so black & white

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I thought it was Spring & awoke to fresh white-but not a lot. It was just enough to cover almost budded branches and create a winter won...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Turkey Vultures?

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The seasons are changing here & apparently there was some carrion was under the melted snow. These turkey vultures roosted just down th...

Final NACC pictures

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The end of the exhibition at the NACC was quite exciting. Since the show was held over for a month my family-Bobbie, Chris & Sandi Peter...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Art Dialogue WNYAG show

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Rejected from the Traditional Art installation, the same judge then accepted all three of my Modern Art submissions. The first opening was...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Wellsville evening light

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A s winter winds down and the [hopefully] last snowfall melts, I remember the first snow of the season-unexpectedly early. We were in the so...
Sunday, March 9, 2008

8959 Green Castle Way

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T his house portrait started as an abstract design concept. Because I was working indoors, I decided to use acrylics instead of oil paint, a...

Leah's Tree

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It seemed like the last snowfall of the winter, just a few inches followed by brilliant sunshine. I set up my canvas & paints at the bac...