Sunday, May 26, 2019

A Gala at Buffalo History Museum

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Two of my paintings found new homes with new collectors. An annual fundraising gala for the Buffalo History Museum features a limited num...
Friday, May 17, 2019

The Smallest Gallery in Western New York, maybe the whole state!

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A retro phone booth is Buffalo’s most interesting gallery space, and in this setting I have 38 paintings on display. I titled it 'Loc...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Another weekend and more Blossoms.

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Stately trees of various types of cherry blossoms fill the hill, marching from the museum to the edge of the lake. This is a view from th...

Two Cherry Blossom weekends

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Cherry Blossom Season lasts just a few days...or a few weeks depending on the weather. The first painting here shows a tree that...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Art on Oliver Street

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'From the Farm Market' has been selected for reproduction as a large scale artwork. It will be displayed in the public art progr...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Packaging a painting for mailing

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Allentown Infringement, oil on stretched canvas 24x30 This painting was discovered online by a resident of Louisville Kentucky and sh...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Some fading carnations preserved in oil

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Before Valentines Day, and for my birthday I bought a bouquet of pink carnations and split the bundle among several vases. As they dried ...

An “Award of Excellence”

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I A year after it was painted I retrieved this painting from Houston. Painted en Plein air, it wasn’t dry enough to pack for travel. Wh...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The last three days of the January challenge

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My feathered friend usually stands above the kitchen cabinets but I had no fresh vegetables and was feeling quirky. He’s made of real fea...

Refrigerator finds for daily paintings.

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Here are three ‘ Refrigerator’ paintings from the daily challenge. Vegetables are good models and they encourage quick paintings as we like...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Window watching in January

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Snow! And sunshine! These two January Daily Challenge Paintings are views from my studio window. Snow Day, 12x4x1 oil on gallery wr...

An Apple A Day. Or Three? More from January challenge

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3 Gala Apples brought me back to 1985. I was determined to be able to draw well and Walter Prochonik guided me in an independent graduate...

Eggsactly.

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Having painted whole eggshells, it was time to crack a farm fresh one and see what I could do. My table is tilted and I was sitting close...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Limited palette colors

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A calm winter day and an opportunity to paint with Jacq Baldini in Niagara Falls Ontario was a welcome Plein air day.  This is the barg...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

The next two paintings in January challenge

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I had a lovely holiday centerpiece that had seen better days but some of the flowers were still lively. I pulled them out and scampered in ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

The third week, Stradaeasel challenge

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"Eggplant Reflections" 9x12 After some success last week I have foolishly tried another larger composition. The little ones w...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Strada Easel challenge continues

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Packing up Christmas, a few items caught my eye. Whether it was nostalgia or an interesting shape, I set a few things aside and left the la...