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.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Danielewicz Farm Sunflower paintings

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Facing The Wind I've Got A Secret Yellow Joy These are three of the four paintings completed during the Labor Day weekend s...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Sunflowers!

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 Wow. I saw pictures on FB, a lovely color spread in the Buffalo News, how could I resist?  A few weeks ago my favorite painting of sun...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Carl Judson visits Niagara Falls

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Guerrilla Painter and Judsons Art Outfitters are well known suppliers of plein air materials. Judsons is a family businesses, you dea...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Calendars return for 2018

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Surprise! They are back. In 2006 I printed 50 calendars for friends and I sold some to help pay my expenses for the cases and the print s...

Finding quiet on the Richmond roundabout

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 Kleinhan's music hall, Symphony Circle, Olmsted Parkway system, where am I?  Behind the big old First Presbyterian church with a r...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Urban Sketching

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 On River Road, across from Smith Boys Marina.  Urban sketching is actually internationally recognized as a form of art. Working in a s...

Lewiston Art Festival 2017

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On my way, packed safely and ready to go. This car is a bit smaller, by about 1/3 than my previous SUV so the tent, display walls and a...

Billy Wilson park

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Peaceful days in the park create memories. This outing was a return to Billy WIlson Park, a marshy and wooded wetlands with wonderful board...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Summer Tourist trapped!

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Friday on the Overlook I stole an afternoon and paid the dollar entry fee to paint on the overlook bridge by Prospect Park at Niagara...

Urban sketching at Bidwell Market

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I went to the Bidwell Saturday market and bought a fruited ice tea and some vegetables and looked around for an inspiration. It turned out ...

A new site!

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Reinstein Woods in Cheektowaga is simply another WNY jewel. It is tucked between several popular roads but seems like it is in the mids...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Beaver Island lagoon

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 Our painters met near the sledding hill of Beaver Island Park on a weekday morning. I chose to capture the lagoon instead of the mighty ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

House Portrait with TOO MANY LEAVES!

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This post starts with a review. In the Spring, I was painting outdoors in Houston and was commissioned to paint a home a few blocks from whe...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

It's a long story

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This is "America Rocks in Sunrise". It's a view of the American Falls in oil, 24"x24 and had been purchased by Ilse Fran...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo

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The Darwin Martin House on Jewett in Buffalo is a world renowned example of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic prairie style. It rests there ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Buffalo Psych center becomes the Henry Hotel

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I made it to HH Richardson towers yesterday to paint with NFPAP, in the driveway saw 5 painters buried in their work. I drove all the way ...

Miebohm Gallery accepts a window view

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  After a lovely long season of plein air painting outside I was attracted to making a larger painting indoors. My corner windows in th...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Rochester Pastel Workshop

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Each morning of this 3 day pastel workshop named "Color Confidence" began with a demonstration by presenter Marla Baggetta. It wa...

Buckhorn emerges from Winter

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Pastels are so satisfying. Making marks with richly pigmented sticks makes a subtle sound on the drawing surface. The colors envelop each o...

Artists Group Gallery BNAA

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The Buffalo Niagara Artist Association Spring show is at Artist Group Gallery this year. I've prepared two water paintings, the smaller...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Pastel Workshop 2

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 These are MINE! This is my studio set, but I also used my travel Guerilla box as there aren't enough colors he...
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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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