Thursday, September 29, 2022

Same place, one year apart, different media

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Sun and Clouds Picnic II, oil 9x12 2022 Autumn Sun Streaks, pastel, 9x12 2021
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

WWPO and a Wet Paint Wedding Purchase

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What a traditional view of the cataracts! The annual WorldWide Paint Out , sponsored by International Plein Air Painters was a huge success...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Painting in a rainstorm

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I was excited to paint in Youngstown at the end of the mighty Niagara, it ends at Lake Ontario with two forts, several dozen sailboats and t...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Three Sisters In sunshine

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September brings the sun a little lower and the glare on the water is almost difficult to watch or paint. Having sold all the bridge picture...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

More sunflowers! 2022 Flowers for Ukraine

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I'm donating a percentage of the price of sold sunflower paintings to supporting the people devastated by war. I have a collection displ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Interpretation of Bonds Lake

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Here is a painting in progress, nearly finished. A few more rocks and some long shadows and it was done. We paint at least once a year at Bo...
Monday, August 29, 2022

England and Wales continued

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 One of the fantastic artists at Workshops in Yorkshire invited me to stay at her home at the end of our week. I hesitated but I was assured...

England and Wales Experience

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 The end of a beautiful July found me on a plane to Manchester England, where I transferred by trains and taxi to an AirBnB in York, England...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Skill building with Still Life Paintings

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Beets and Greens 12x16 oil  Indoor Still life used to be my least favorite painting. This year, I have connected with several artists and...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Backyard garden flowers

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That's my granddaughter Amelia in the blue hat, she painted next to me with her new set of gel crayons. I hadn't used my pastels for...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Griffon Park, Niagara Falls

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Griffon Park is on the Little River in Niagara Falls and faces Cayuga Island. For years, boaters have backed their boats into the water and ...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

2022 Cherry Blossom Festival

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Pansies! Spring is really here.

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Yellow Pansies, oil 16 x12  c. K. Schifano In Texas, pansies are planted outdoors as soon as the New Year's blooms fade. Visiting family...

Friday Night Challenges

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A group of artists, originally based in California, meet online to Zoom and paint from a selected photo. Called the Plein Air Club, their 3p...

Annual Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

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Saturday at the Buffalo History Museum was a perfect Spring day and thousands turned out to see the blossoms. Five painters worked on a scen...
Monday, May 2, 2022

Artist Koala paints us!

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While at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival at the Buffalo History Museum another artist sketched us working. Who Knew? Koala came over to...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

2022 paint schedule

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  The 2022 schedule for plein air painting is occasionally changed due to weather or conflicts, but this is what we have now. Guests and obs...

Rubber duck portrait

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Working indoors as the April rains soak everything   Rubber Ducky, 10x8 oil on canvas panel. 
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

The scow

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A few years ago I painted The Scow from the shore of Niagara Falls Ontario. It had tipped overnight and was sure to go over the falls soon. ...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Landmark home on Grand Island

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 Last Fall I met with friends in Ferry Village. It was a little breezy and rain threatened but I worked from a covered area across the stree...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

No longer just pictures, these became decor.

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A Rochester 'plant-based family' acquired several of my winter vegetable projects, loose paintings, all oil on gessoed oil paper. Th...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Sunlight streaks the Path at Beaver Island

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As 'plein air season' winds down there is joy at the colors of the changing season but melancholy at the idea of losing contact with...

How I did it! Steps to a painting

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These are in my phone since last summer. It is a pastel on a brick colored Colourfix paper. Watch how the dark color modifies some of the sh...