Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Lewiston Art Festival August 8 & 9

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Preparing for the Lewiston Art Fest- my new tent location will be in front of the Orange Cat Coffee Co, right near the corner of 7th Street ...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Comparing Paintings

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Once upon a time, I said I didn't like to paint bridges. Since then , I learned to love them, especially these little bridges we find to...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Satisfied customers

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Monica & Mike White came here on Sunday & left with their completed portrait. It had been drying for long enough to have a light coa...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Rainbow Bridge from Whirlpool

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Easy to find in older digital files because they were arranged by date, I can post this original pastel composition from 2006 to compare to ...

Painting the same scene 3 years later

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This is water rushing through the gorge after cascading down Niagara Falls, it is called the lower river, but still too rocky & rough fo...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Grand Island Happenings

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I joined our Grand Island Chamber of Commerce this year, & also exhibited with their ' Grand Island Happenings' showcase event,...

American Falls painting-the wettest

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10,000 cubic feet a second at the American Falls? This Niagara oil was painted in Fall, but I have certainly taken my time to re-photograph ...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M.

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There is a great boulder north of the Rainbow bridge. It has a bronze marker stating that Father Louis Hennepin probably stood near in 1679...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pure serendipity day

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Everyone in our neighborhood decided to yard sale the same weekend, so I carted out the odds & ends I had been saving on purpose. After ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

The pleasures of weather

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It seems like it has been a while since I posted, but I have finished 30 paintings this year-& four of them in just two intense days thi...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Outdoors can become studio work

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The angular trees & shallow water are two of my favorite painting subjects at Burchfield Art & Nature Center . I was the Niagara Fro...
Monday, June 1, 2009

2010 calendar planning

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UPS safely delivered a double-boxed cardboard order Saturday-the new empty calendar cases for 2010. Planning next year's calendar, I had...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Buffalo Botanical Garden painting

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Painted on site at the Botanical Gardens , '746 Orchids in a Box' was named because after I started painting, I realized that the fl...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

WKBW AM Buffalo show & Quaker Bonnet Eatery Day!!

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On Friday morning, WKBW television morning show host Linda Pellegrino & I spoke at length on various artistic topics-styles, art traini...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Houston Texas, noon & dogs

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Finally-A finished and almost dry picture! Now I should plan a visit to varnish it in place. This is a commissioned house portrait for Steph...

If you did not get the email...

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Friday May 8--Please join me! From 5 to 7 in the evening-early enough to go out for dinner or catch a movie. My newest solo exhibit is '...
Monday, May 4, 2009

New Blog? I am crazy!

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CLICK HERE for My Page - plein air artists I just signed onto a new blog-for plein air artists. It was relatively easy, & uploading imag...
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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