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 Café, 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 …
Do you want a little paint with that wine?
Sue at the end of a wonderful evening painting at Durand Eastman. Nobody else painted a watercolor like that, I assure you. The first time I heard of a Paint Night Event was when a student came back from a business trip to tell me he’d participated in one. Since I like wine and painting, …
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Amazing what you find if you clean your room.
From The Blue Beetle Faces the Destroyer of Heroes, Blue Beetle, Vol. 1, No. 5, November 1968, Charlton Comics Group, Derby Connecticut. It’s Memorial Day. I’m not up to anything particularly deep about the meaning or execution of art. Instead, I’m giving you Steve Ditko being deep about the meaning of art and heroism: selected panels from …
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Drawing or painting?
Ancient Catalpa Tree, 6X8, oil on canvas, by little ol’ me. It was a week of very unsettled weather, when even NOAA didn’t have a firm grasp on what would happen next. (Among other things, the daytime temperature dropped forty degrees.) After cancelling plans twice due to threatening rain only to watch the sky clear …