Saturday, March 17, 2012

Changing light, changing water

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Painted just one day apart, these paintings show the wetlands out back in the afternoon. The top is an ATC, the larger is only 4x6 and is ...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A day like today

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A free hour in my day became an opportunity to walk the paths at the State park. Splendid light flickered on the mist and ripples, rainbows ...
Friday, March 2, 2012

A winter workout

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With rare snowflakes and instant melting, this has been a poor season for winter paintings. They look just like early Spring and late fall w...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Spring in Buffalo

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Now that I have returned to weekly paintouts at the Buffalo Botanical Gardens, I see signs of Spring in every greenhouse. All the plants a...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Partners in Art Gallery show

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NFPAP, the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters, group show at Partners in Art Gallery in North Tonawanda is under construction. I visited w...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

One more curve of the Horseshoe Falls

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I seem to never tire of this view. Two years ago, at my November open house, Marian & Bob Granfield purchased a pastel with a similar vi...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Original Artworks that were purchased as gifts

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Christmas was an opportunity for gift paintings to take up new residences and leave my walls. Each January I start new art files on the comp...

A tale of two house portraits.

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Several years ago, I painted a newly landscaped DeVeaux home (shown below) for Michele Altman, she wanted to surprise her husband for Chri...
Friday, January 6, 2012

The eye sees more than the camera

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Why I do not like to paint from photographs....... Painting outdoors sometimes brings the weirdest comments, the worst of which is 'Wh...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Link to ordering calendars

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This Paypal button will work for ordering calendars by mail. It is the same as on my website, www.Kschifano.com . Go right ahead and forwa...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Buffalo's Wheeler Grain Elevator Requiem

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RIP Wheeler Grain Elevator  The photo of this pastel painting was taken today. I don't shoot every painting but this one became ...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Niagara Holiday Market

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Downtown Niagara Falls has a new look, the Holiday Market is blooming, the ice is ready for your skating and there is a tree lighting every...

Fall Painting

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Lower Mountain Road Fields A recent NFPAP paint out was on a lovely and mild Fall day with our organizer and chief, Joan Shaw, at her hom...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Open Art Studio 2011

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My 4th open studio is coming up next weekend, the busiest art weekend of the year in WNY, lots of shows and gallery walks, big shopping oppo...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Letchworth State Park Plein AIr

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Kath Schifano When I am asked how I am, my answer has been 'wonderful'. Sincerely wonderful. There have been many opportunities...

Houston Painting Op

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Kath Schifano A warm sunny Fall week in Houston, while it turns chilly and rains at home. Could I ask for more? The big-happy-knee-grabbi...
Friday, October 14, 2011

2012 calendars

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2012 is printed, packed and ready! The new calendar returns to the original format of monthly images with dates below. The past two years we...

"Painting for Preservation" Exhibit in Buffalo

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Kath Schifano I have lightly aligned with a group called "Painting for Preservation" in Buffalo. I say lightly because most of ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Artist update!

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This Fall has been spectacular for me, returning from a week in Houston I woke the next morning, repacked and drove straight to Letchworth t...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

9th Annual International Plein Air Paintout

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On the second day of my 9th annual International Plein Air Paintout adventure, I crossed into Canada to paint. Little did I expect that my f...

Niagara, again

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Still fascinated by the massive curve of the Horseshoe Falls, these two paintings were created 3 weeks apart from 2 entirely different locat...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

BNAA Fall art show at Artsphere

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The Erie County Fair is supposedly the largest fair in America. Two years ago, the fair's plein air contest did not conflict with the ...

Lewiston with Sherrill Primo

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Summer. Painting season, a chance to plan multiple dates with artist friends to paint outdoors and capture that day's joy, to liste...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Lewiston Art Festival tent photos

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 People ask me 'How was the art show?' and my response is usually 'Which one?' The term art show can refer to a gallery open...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Whitesville House

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 Mike White turned 50 this summer, Carl designed an invitation to the planned pig roast birthday party, and I had an opportunity to bake a...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Upper Rapids, the fury of water

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I am working on the perfect painting to capture the sound and fury of the upper rapids of the Horseshoe Falls . This is meant to be a really...
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Music is Art 9/17/2011

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Please join us as we celebrate the talent and culture of Western New York Saturday, September 17, 2011, 10 AM-10 PM @ Delaware Park behind T...
Monday, August 8, 2011

WIne On Third Art Exhibit still on the walls

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Wine On Third is a neat bar & restaurant downtown Niagara Falls, a little jewel of a spot that is like nothing else downtown. The sma...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

July Saturday with Monica

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A great party in Wellsville for Mike White's 50th involved a bit of cooking and packing for a crowd-olive & feta salad, a crockpot o...

Youngstown & Used Sailboats

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I missed the first scheduled date, but a second Youngstown marina paintout brought out many artists, they spread out on the docks to captur...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Last Part, Adirondack Publisher's Invitational

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I drove for nearly 7 hours in the sun to register for my week in the Adirondacks; I checked in, moved in, and met many painters before, du...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Moon is A Balloon, 2011 & Wine On Third

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 Years ago I started this rose painting, it was one of my early large floral pastels. It was matted & framed under glass-until the glass...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Part 3- Publisher's Invitational Paintout 2.0, Ampersand Pastelbord

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Gabriel's Farm, 6x18 pastel, 2011 Ahhh, the mountains, an example of how they move and dance in the clouds. A nice breeze chased larg...

Part 2- Publisher's Invitational Paintout 2.0

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Continuing the Adirondack adventures. After painting a few pictures in oil, carrying them fresh and wet into another person's car and l...