Watch Me Paint
This is a painting from imagination and memoryāmemories of taking the late bus home after winter swim practice, or of fetching my son after school. And imagining being atop a high hill, watching my bus skitter home on icy country roads, to drop me off at the end of my road. Iād walk home the last quarter mile, my hair quite frozen and my spirits lifted.
Line-of-Action wonāt make you a figure artist, but if you canāt get to a weekly model session, itās the next best thing. The Anatomy Class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1888, FranƧois SallĆ©. Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales. My son-in-law Aaron has the makings of a very fine artist. Yesterday, he snapchatted me …
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If a tire-kicker like me will buy a snowblower online, itās time to retire my arguments against internet stores. Breaking Storm, by Carol L. Douglas This is the week when I hole up with my fellow painter Bobbi Heath and talk about our business plans for the coming year. The question Iām asking myself has …
When buying paint, itās all about that base. My second-favorite kind of painting. Iām in the western Berkshires painting the interior walls in my oldest kidās new house. Sheās 28 and itās her first house, and sheās very excited. So am I; like many artists, my idea of a good vacation is to paint walls. …
Instead of decorating your room with posters of famous art that sold for millions, buy original art that moves you.
It’s been a horrible week for many, but what if we looked at this week as an opportunity to welcome others into our Christmas spirit?
Itās almost like those bad old days when department stores would advertise large-screen TVs and have only one in the store. Here Iām telling you upfront that thereās only one of each item. When the painting you love is gone, itās really gone.
“Ravening Wolves,” oil on canvas, 24X30, available. Iāll be painting next weekend in Camden on Canvas. Iām a little rusty because my time right now is being taken up by things that have nothing to do with painting. While I canāt go out and do a full plein air painting, Iām taking an hour a …
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter essay. Coast Guard Inspection, 6X8, oil on canvasboard. The above witticism has been attributed to many people because itās a universal truth. President Woodrow Wilson put it thus: āIf it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; …
āāThe trick,ā said I, turning on my stool with coffee cup in hand, āis not to adopt a siege mentality.āā All flesh is as Grass, 30X40, oil on linen The above quote is from novelist Van Reid. He was musing on the winter. I copied his essay here and I hope you will read it …