In search of the perfect easel
I can handle the Sun-Eden storage because it’s plastic and light. I hate carrying around wooden storage space just because someone else thinks it’s necessary. Of course, there IS no perfect easel, but I do have a perfect palette, and I want an easel deserving of it My current easel took its last gasp at …
Views and Duets
My painting for ABVI’s “Play It Forward.” I know how to defeat this painting for next time I’m asked, BTW. When last I posted, I had just painted with my fellow NYPAP artists* at Olana, the home of Frederic Edwin Church. This event, spearheaded by Marilyn Fairman, is in honor of NYPAP’s founder, Ted Beardsley, …
Painting at Olana
Painting at Olana, the estate of Frederic Church, with fellow members of NYPAP, for the 2nd annual Ted Beardsley Memorial Paintout. Again, I’m a little rushed, but here are snapshots of what I did yesterday. Olana overlook, approaching sunset, 12X16 oil, by little ol’ me. Bea Gustafson painting the sky. My first sketch, about 45 …
Climbing the Catskills in easy stages
The mist through the early morning trees. By the time you’re reading this I’ll have painted all day at Olana at the 2nd Annual Ted Beardsley Memorial Paint-Out. Yesterday I drove to Kingston and saw Bruce Bundock’s fantastic show at the Rosendale CafĂ©, and then on to Jamie Grossman’s lovely home in the Catskills. This …
Thoughts of Maine
Downtown Rockland, not exactly last week. (Rockland Main Street, Inc. website.) A few people have asked me why I—a person with a decidedly urban personality—like Rockland, ME so much. If we were in Rockland this evening, we could attend a lecture at the Farnsworth comparing Giotto’s “Life of Christ” and Leonardo’s “Last Supper.” Rockland is a …