Friday, February 12, 2010

Sweet tooth

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I couldn't resist the close up - this is about 1 foot of the painting. Time to celebrate. Detail- 'My Mixer is Pink' (see next p...

Inspired by the Cupcake Queen

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Delivered today, this painting just jumped onto the giant naked wall it was made for. Sometime ago, Cupcake Queen Amanda DiCesare mentioned ...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Can't keep the small ones, so I'll work large

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This is another large painting that lived on & off my easel for months. I have drawn this scene & painted this curve every year plei...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Not just a pretty picture

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This is quite big for a bouquet & took 3 months on & off my easel. It started as a flat presentation & gradually developed depth...

Great Lakes Garden at NYS Parks

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In the Fall, Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters [NFPAP] met at the Great Lakes Garden. It was planned for dramatic landscape color, so I pa...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Lights in the Garage-a Tonawanda portrait

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Commissioned as 'the house I grew up in', Colleen Sullivan's parents still live here. The house faces north, so it took a number...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Still waiting for these orchids to bloom

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Now that winter is official with the solstice, I am thinking about the Botanical Gardens in South Buffalo. Last winter I was able to go only...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Open House at Earl Brydges Library in Niagara Falls

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Niagara Falls Public Library held an open house on December 5th, cookies from Howes, punch & several local artsy people showed their wor...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Hyde Park Golf Course Niagara Falls

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Last year I was given a cart ride-with my plein air easel-out onto the golf course in Hyde Park, Niagara Falls. There were no golfers as it ...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Outdoor paintings in Fall

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Fall started out cold & rainy, but most of the leaves stayed up to change color slow enough to paint them. These two paintings were ble...
Monday, November 16, 2009

IPAP paintings slide show

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http://www.i-p-a-p.com/ The link above is for the International Plein Air Painters website. It is a great place for me-I have made friends ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

November 21 invitation

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On Saturday, November 21 I will have an art open house from 11:00 am until 5:30 pm at my Grand Island studio. It has been exciting getting r...
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...