How I did it! Steps to a painting

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 shapes yet is not obvious in the finished painting.

Buffalo Waterfront, pastel c. K. Schifano 2021

 

Can a Painting be photobombed?

 Look closely, notice the greenish coat on a painter, lower right corner? That's Ylli Hurani and he showed up to paint the Hermit Falls off the first bridge at Three Sisters at Niagara Falls State Park. I had been painting from the cozy front seat of my car and was nearly finished when I spied him at the end of the bridge. With artist license in hand I mentally moved him onto the bridge and put him in my painting. 

'First Snow' oil, 8x10 c.2022

Surprise publicity found online

Neither of these pictured events are news to me, but finding these public posts of my work is! I'll admit, I googled myself as I occasionally check links for the blog, website, Instagram, etcetera. It is nice to know that art still gets publicity, we miss regular features about various artists, shows and events that used to be published in newspapers. Two local weekly art papers have stopped and two daily papers are shrinking and cutting articles and information due to lack of ads, support and the influence of online media.

Freedom Run Winery in October

Saturday Pumpkins  9x12 pastel, 2021

Fall Saturdays need pumpkins! I found this pretty collection at Freedom Run Winery in Appleton. Some of the painters headed into the fields to find apple trees draped with a season of healthy red ones, rows of grapevines, the view up the escarpment. I stayed right by the parking lot as I expected rain as well as a stiff breeze, neither of which help pastel paintings. Besides, I had enough of landscapes and haven't painted pumpkins in a decade or so! This was fun, people visiting the winery stayed back and had nice comments.

Saturday Pumpkins in progress

 

30th Annual Regional Artists Exhibition Acceptance

Pleased to have this painting selected by juror Lin Xia Jiang to be included in a popular and competitive annual exhibition, on view 10/8 to 11/12 at AGG, One Linwood Avenue Buffalo. The intention of the exhibition is to exemplify "the excellence in visual art found in Western New York".

Buffalo Marina and Skyline, 16x12 pastel ©K. Schifano