Kath Schifano-Sharing the Soul of my Paintings

Discover how paintings with oils or pastel are created outdoors-both landscapes and botanical observations. These Plein Air paintings are completed in one setting in the tradition of 19th C Impressionists.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Asgaard Farm in the Adirondacks

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c. K Schifano Ausable Forks is the home of Asgaard Farm , which is the location of Rockwell Kent's artist studio. The studio was int...

Publisher's Invitational 2.0 2012

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c. K Schifano Another invitation to paint with artists near the Trinity Lakes in the huge Adirondack park got me packing and driving 6 h...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

What I do on my vacation.

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Staying just half a block from the ocean, I spent a week of mornings and evenings painting the tides and this jetty, thank goodness for th...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Niawanda Park's 9th Annual Art on the Riverwalk

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Kathy Schifano painting at Riverwalk, Tonawanda Spectacular weather along the Niagara river combined with a Sunday art show in Tonawan...
Friday, July 6, 2012

ADK Mountain School Painters and Me

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Recently returned from an invitational paint week with the publisher of 'Plein Air' and 'Fine Art Connoisseur' magazines, we...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

On the road, Adirondack painting

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Publisher's Paintout 2.0 2012 is now over and I am back home with 8 new paintings, so it's up to the studio to mat and frame and f...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Beaver Island State Park Casino

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Kath Schifano c. 2012 Beaver Island State Park, at the south end of Grand Island is an artist's playground with boardwalk and beach...

Wilson Tuscarora State Park Secret Spot

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c. Kath Schifano 2012 Wilson Tuscarora State Park has a main entrance, road to activities and parking lots, but it also has a 'secr...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Back to the Adirondacks

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High Falls, plein air pastel, K.Schifano c.2012 Last June, I was invited to Plein Air Magazine's Publisher's Paintout 2.0 and ...

Youngstown Yacht Club

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New Old Sailboat, Kath Schifano c.2012 Two consecutive Mondays were scheduled for the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters at the Youngs...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Hazards of plein air

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I painted yesterday at the yacht club in the shade of a docked sailboat. A worker inside attached the boat battery and the auto-bilge kicked...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Niagara River Paintings

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I just posted 13 new paintings on Facebook, linked HERE , it has been a wonderful Spring for painting as my painting friends seemed to ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

My most recent art show!

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  Burchfield Penney Art Center  invited area member artists to display their creative art work, naming the show  'Artists Among Us...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Titan Arum Flower at Niagara Parks, Canada

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Kath Schifano painting the Titan Arum background On May 4, I drove to Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse  in Ontario, Canada, to sketch the ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Serendipity Success

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c. Kath Schifano 2012 Different in technique from other Botanical Gardens paintings, this orchid spray deserves an explanation. The orch...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Light & Shadow on a Niagara Falls Closeup

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c. Kath Schifano 2012 The first official NFPAP paintout may well have been the best weather of our paint season. It was brilliantly sunny...
Friday, March 23, 2012

A favorite spot at The Falls, 132 years apart

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 I went to paint at Three Sisters because I had seen this painting by William Morris Hunt in the Ball State University Museum, in Indiana....
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...
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Everyone would like more time in their day to get things done. If I had more time in my day, I would paint more. See why at www.kschifano.com
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