Friday, October 17, 2014

Ending one Season, Starting Another

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The Autumn leaves are still brilliant and there are more paint days ahead but an end of season art show for one of my groups will open Nov...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

P4P doesn't always work

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  The original expansive Delaware Court structure had a lovely curved facade; Painting for Preservation artists had gathered there on...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

This is the sitting room at the Knox Mansion

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The sitting room of the Knox family is at the top of the main staircase. I think it was the master bedroom as the bath has the original...
Monday, September 29, 2014

The Buffalo History Museum is good to their artists.

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I am writing about donating again. Artists are constantly asked to donate work for fundraisers. Who asks a handyman, lawn service or plumber...
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Off the Boardwalk in Long Beach

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For the past two years, I have been told that I should paint on or near the boardwalk in Long Beach. Finally, I went, to the exact spo...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

'You Are There' a P4P art exhibit

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Eight plein air ocean paintings based on the Ohio Street Jetty are displayed at Artists Space Gallery on Main Street in Buffalo as part...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

'Sand Painting' 9x12 oil on birch with plenty of authentic beach sand in the paint.

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Back to Long Beach, Long Island. This is the jetty directly to the East of Ohio Street and the first time I strayed from my usual rocks...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Impact Artists Gallery features 3 solo shows.

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The month of August is mine. At least at Impact Artist's Gallery it is partly mine. The first long wall, shown above, around the co...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

2015 Art Calendars-All Niagara images

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2015 Calendars are printed, sorted and packaged into cases and refills, and nothing has changed except the beautiful images. This year, all ...

Plein air sand

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Late in the day, families pack up, as beach blankets and umbrellas are set up for the day and used from morning to sunset. These late aft...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Youngstown Yacht Club

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 A photo from last week's 'Art on the River' evening. If I can't be outdoors at the Youngstown Yacht Club on a warm summer ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014

3rd and Niagara, Niagara Falls Painting story

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I found a photograph of myself on the 'Niagara Painters' website, we were painting this morning in downtown Niagara Falls. A yo...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Kenan biennial 'Niagara Frontier Art Exhibit'

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  Last summer my wrist and hand overdosed with pastels. In fact, I damaged tendons by having three summer residencies where I painted all d...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Save the date!

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Friday, July 18, 2014

The big vista

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Everyone driving down Lewiston Hill looks at the scene out over the lake and the rolling landscape from the escarpment to the shore, mostly...

Artists Group Gallery

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The edge of Goat Island at Niagara Falls separates the water that goes over the two falls from the Niagara River. The rapids become quite t...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Hurricane Arthur painting

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A long planned vacation and family get together in Delaware was an opportunity to paint at the beach...right off the balcony of our apa...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

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  Saturday night, be at the NACC for the opening reception, 6:30-9. My painting, top left was selected for the postcard. This is an ann...
Friday, June 20, 2014

2014 Summer Solstice

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 As each season changes, we remark on the day but I try to be a painter on the solstice and equinox as a way to acknowledge the change. As ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Beyond the Barrel 2014

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The annual NACC summer show, 'Beyond the Barrel' always seemed to be a show that would not have Falls images (BEYOND the barrel, ge...

Guerrilla Painter 9x12 LapTop box

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An NFPAP paintout at Gateway Park in Tonawanda was a great opportunity to just sit in the park where I often stroll, to admire the view and...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Emily Carr

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Emily Carr is a 19th century artist, an explorer, fearless and brave, willing to undergo extreme discomfort, ravenous bugs, slithering and b...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Influenced by Wolf Kahn

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A few years ago, I appeared on a channel 7 morning show and in the interview I was asked which artists were my favorites. I flubbed the ans...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Saturday Quick Draw, Camp Hill

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A 'Quick Draw' involves starting, completing and turning in a framed painting in a limited time frame. In Camp Hill we had two h...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Harrisburg, PA, The Camp Hill Plein Air Competition

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It was a little overcast but his was fun to paint, in a lovely neighborhood park. So many people had suggested I visit this pristine groome...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg.

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When I sat on the west side of the Susquehanna River to paint the Harrisburg skyline with the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, I consid...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

VIsiting with the original Guerrilla Painter

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A few months ago, I ordered a new paint box from Judson's Art Outfitters in Colorado. Poking around their website I discovered that Ca...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

New Buffalo Botanical Gardens Waterfall

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'The Palm Room' is the central domed rotunda at the gardens; through the years we have watched various palms reach the 60-70? foo...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Great Baehre Swamp in Amherst

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Add caption Call it Great Baehre Swamp or Margaret Louise Park, this was a great place to officially start the plein air club season. W...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

April Snow

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I planned to paint outdoors, but the weather report was gloomy. Waking to white stuff falling isn't high on my list in April. There w...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Sharing an International Plein Air Painters post

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 This works for me. Returning from painting outdoors, as I tired as I may be from lugging equipment, climbing, getting buggy and bit, I sti...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

New plein air frames

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I usually order my frames custom sized from a wholesale frame company, but I couldn't resist these plein air frames and birch panels f...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Car Painting

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Too chilly to paint outside, this view of Goat Island from the parkway was a comfortable afternoon paint 'in'. You can see Goat...
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Plein Air Camp Hill Art Festival

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These photos may look a bit busy or hectic, but I believe they are from the final day last May at the   Camp Hill Plein Air Art Festiva...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Monica's Mists and her frame

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Started last winter, this sat unfinished, clipped to a huge backing board and behind the door, for months while my wrist healed. I took it...