Thursday, April 30, 2009

Some days are really special!

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Forever Young Magazine Click the link to read the May issue article by Anthony Chabala about my plein air. It started from a press release s...
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Albright Knox Area Artist Exhibit

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Today this studio painting was selected for 2009 Area Artist Exhibit at the Albright Knox. It seemed like a long time from the application ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Happy Birthday Monica

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It doesn't snow much in central New Jersey, but this house portrait documents the 2009 snow forever.  Not dry enough to travel this week...

Not quite Mutt & Jeff

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The dogs have landed. Now whose tongue hangs out on which side, & what kind of ears belong on the left?  My photo has a glare-from the w...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Spring Days

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Plein Air season is officially ON! Too cold to stand in the wind blowing over still frozen Lake Erie, I set my French Easel in the windbreak...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Spring Studio nights

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Late & quiet nights find me listening to music & working on this house portrait-some of the earlier parts are starting to dry, so ...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

New Texas portrait in progress

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Although I have my own daily progress records [such an ed. term!] for many studio paintings, I rarely post them. You can click on the subjec...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Facebook reflection

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I had been asked why I was not on Facebook many times, so I finally broke down & made a page. My friends list is expanding quickly, as F...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Return to Texas

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Fascinated by the Bottlebrush tree, I had to go back to Texas to see it in full bloom this year. Well, no, actually we went to visit Robin, ...
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Mini painting

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At the end of a vacation trailer park in Sanford, FL there is an area to be developed which has a paved road, picnic benches & a bridge ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

New paintings

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2 little paintings & a bigger landscape, all completed, just waiting for their photo-ops. Now I am preparing more canvases for the plein...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Studio challenge in January

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In the warm weather I always paint outside, but I also take A LOT of photographs. This past year I collected images of waves and water in a ...

Painting around Sanford

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Two plein air images have finally dried enough to take pictures. Oil on wet paintings tends to reflect available light & create reflecti...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters

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For now, I am the moderator of another blog---for my plein  air group . Hopefully, there will be a lot of contributions! www.nfpap.blogspot....
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Florida Spring

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Planning on spending the day painting at Merritt Island, we were waylaid by strong winds off the ocean. Sharon Muldoon & I had previousl...

I did not stop to paint here

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I heard about the alligators in Florida & expected to see one-or two, but Sharon took me on a cruise through the Merritt Island National...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Study, rework & repaint

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I am quite adamant that I finish a painting before starting new. That doesn't mean that every canvas is 'good'. The surface can ...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Jerry & Larry Bell

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Larry Bell may have been the best friend I ever had, but I didn't know it at the time. He was just always there for a laugh or some empa...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Party at 555 Pine

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During John Polechetti's birthday party, the sun was setting even with the cupola on his home 'The Pink House' in Lockport, whil...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Barack & Carl

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[Edited with the correct images, this is a 'repost' rather than deja vu.] FYI- You can easily post a note by clicking on the 'co...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Press Releases

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There is another K Schifano on the web, a teeny-bopper who films herself jumping on the couch & posts the 'film' on her own blog...
Monday, January 5, 2009

Requiem for a cat

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Harley is gone. A week has gone by & the lack of a companion in the morning, the absent plop of descent from a nap as well as adjusting ...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Think Green at Art Dialogue Gallery

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Imagine this in an 8 ply mat with wide margins, mounted in a carved old gold color wood frame. It's at Art Dialogue Gallery this month, ...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Holidaze

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After a December Open Studio, two extra events at which my work was featured & a house full of cookies, sweets & family, I find that...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Dave's Painting-Niagara Falls Carnegie

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This is the original Niagara Falls Carnegie library, commissioned by Dave Young as a gift for his sister, a 'Carnegie Library fan'. ...

Open Studio Show Report

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They were absolutely the coldest days of the season so far, every time the door opened the candles quivered in the wind, but it was warm aro...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Niagara Falls Teachers-Show & Sell event

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We had a 'show & sell' at the Como restaurant on Thursday, and the food was spectacular, the guests were friendly & the disp...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

New paintings in Niagara Falls

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Niagara Arts & Cultural Center's Winter Show opens next Friday Night with a big red door & red balloon celebration, a Hell...
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Family Justice Center, Buffalo NY

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One's pastel, the other is oil, both were painted on location with the Fairweather Paletteers at Thursday paint outs. They were donated...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Impact Artist's Gallery Fall National

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A juried exhibition involves submitting artworks by slide or CD to a judge, who chooses the artwork for the walls, declining some & keep...
Monday, October 13, 2008

First colors of Fall 2008

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Niagara Frontier Plein Air painters [NFPAP] met at Burchfield Nature & Resource Center in September & I was determined to find the e...

Grand Island yardwork

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It's called 'Indian Summer in Buffalo', but I prefer the term autumn. The lovely 70 degree days of the past week have me hurryin...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Saved in the camera

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Doesn't 'Pots at the Pool' look like a lovely plein air? It is a close up from the right side of 'Summer on the River', ...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Birthday Bash

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Karen planned a great surprise party for John-She booked the New Polechetti family band {formerly known as the Billy McEwen Band}, tents, lo...

Grand Island Painting

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Kath Schifano oil painting, 36x48 Grand Island NY Nearly finished, this is a 'grand' island painting, as I have been painting it...
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...