Thursday, October 15, 2009

Whirlpool State Park Rapids

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Standing up on the hill at Whirlpool State Park, looking up-river (which is south around here, the Niagara flows north) I painted this in a ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Buffalo's Old First Ward & Grain Elevators

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Last May, Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters came to this site-grain elevators in south Buffalo, the Old First Ward. It was windy, cold, ...
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Monday, October 5, 2009

Buckhorn State Park

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This 'bit of Buckhorn' was also judged into the Erie County Family Justice Center auction . I accidently arrived at Riverwood on a l...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Domestic Violence Awareness Month-October

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This moody little oil depicts Navy Island in the Niagara River with the Robert Moses Parkway shoreline of Niagara Falls in the distance. It ...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

16th Street in Niagara Falls painting - a portrait

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Painted from a grand old home on 16th in Niagara Falls, as well as old & new photo references, this house portrait includes details that...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

This post is for Jim Sheusi

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Art Alive is an Albright Knox activity in June, featuring individuals or groups acting out famous artworks. 'Girl With A Pearl Earring...

Music is Art, Albright Knox 9-12-09

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My first movie! Always interested in the 'view' of the moment, I have photographed, painted & drawn countless scenes. In the mid...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Plein Air in Buffalo

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I've been painting more than I have been posting here-this pastel shows the view between two older homes on Pearl Street in Buffalo, the...
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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Niagara Falls Paintings Calendar

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I had released the 2010 calendar for the Lewiston Arts Festival, and it has begun to show up in a few local shops. This year features 12 new...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Next Saturday 9/12

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'The Music is Art Festival' is next Saturday on the grounds of the Albright Knox Art Gallery. I will be one of the 50 selected arti...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Albright Knox Art Gallery Issue 2 pub.

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Sorting through magazines, I discovered my own painting published in the Albright Knox Art Gallery's quarterly magazine AKNOW. This phot...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Plein Air at Erie County Fair

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A plein Air competition on the hottest day of the summer!? I found a shady bench under a tree & worked with pastels to capture the feeli...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Fundraisers & vegetables

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This painting will be presented to Canisius College & Art Dialogue Gallery for their joint gala fund-raiser auction next May. It was pai...

Lewiston's Frontier House

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I do like to have a photo of each my artwork owners, & have a lovely collection of photographs of 'satisfied art collectors' wit...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Not Just Rain

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Lewiston Art Festival is an annual juried fine arts show that has recently featured RAIN each year. This year, it was a monsoon. These pictu...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

It's a world wide web

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This map is in my sidebar on the right so you can click to see where in the world my blog is read. I have had it here for just a few months ...
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Update for the Art Fest Sat & Sun

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Lewiston Art Festival is this weekend-August 8&9- & I am looking forward to seeing a lot more people in the  sunshine . My new tent ...
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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 ...