Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Finally, in the third year.

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Peony Bliss, oil c.2019 Two seasons of Peonies were necessary to finish this 30”x20” oil. It started as an ambitious Plein air, but...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Niagara On the Lake

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Summer days are perfect for painting in WNY. A shady spot, a chair and easel out of the way of walkers and a decent view are all that I...

Van Gogh in Houston

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Is this a familiar scene? Vincent Van Gogh painted his bedroom at Arles several times during the last two years of his life. At the Museu...

A Festival of Plein Air

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I’ll be painting here with many other artists, probably near the pond and bridge at the east side of the park. If it rains, find me near th...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Back to Goat Island at Niagara Falls

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Beyond the first Three Sisters Bridge is an overlook of the water going under the bridge. The little waterfalls is called Hermit Falls....
Friday, June 7, 2019

Where Tonawanda and North Tonawanda meet-The Erie Canal

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Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters met at Gateway Park on a fairly chilly and slightly windy day. Most of the painters worked small and in...
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...