Wine pairings
Manship Toasting the Angels, by Barry Faulkner, 1923. At the Farnsworth. My favorite work in the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockport, ME is Manship Toasting the Angels by Barry Faulkner. This 1923 wall screen shows angels coming down from heaven bearing wine. Two couples (Faulkner, his pal Paul Manship, and their wives) raise their glasses in …
It’s almost time for Rye Painters on Location again!
My piece for Rye POL’s Silent Auction: Gold Mountain Air, oil on canvasboard, 11X14. Some of my Best Painting Buds (BPBs) are people I met at Rye Painters on Location: Bruce Bundock and Marilyn Fairman, for example. Another of my other BPBs—Brad Marshall—is someone I recommended to the organizers (as did Lee Haber). There are …
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Better than working in a cube farm?
Darn it, I KNOW I took a photo of my easel in the manure pile, but I can’t find it! So you’re stuck with the rather-more-normal wet canvas. Never good when someone decides to blot it out for you, which has happened, of course. I received an amusing text from a friend this morning that …
Bid early! Bid often!
Painting on a floating dock during the Quick-Draw. My preferred vantage point for boats. (Photo by Howard Gallagher) I have an informal contest with a Maine pal about which of us can be mentioned most often in the media. Until this week, we were tied, but I think I just out-paced him with photos in …
The best fan mail
Three watercolors done by Shirley last October. I can’t wait to see what she does in Maine this October! The greatest compliment to an instructor is to have a student sign up again for another year. While I was in Camden last week, I learned that Shirley, a student from last October’s Irondequoit Inn program, …