How not to clean your studio
Never let them stash stuff in your studio…. unless there’s no other place for it, of course. Sadly the cello and the hats are probably safest here right now. Joe the Painter stopped by last week looking for work. I like Joe, and I have a very old house with plaster walls which occasionally need …
That fine line between art and erotica
Hermaphrodite, Mateo Bonarelli, 1652, Prado “Son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite was a singularly handsome youth. According to Ovid (Metamorphoses 4, 285 ff.) Salmacis, the nymph from a lake in Caria, was enthralled by his beauty and passionately embraced him while he was bathing. Their two bodies merged as one, with double gender. “This sculpture, commissioned …
I’ve never painted in a little black dress before
Carey Corea’s mural for ABVI On Saturday, June 1, I will be painting a live plein air painting for the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s (ABVI) Play It Forward hosted by Macy’s. This event is to celebrate ABVI’s construction of an Outdoor Mobility Training Area, which will help visually-impaired children and adults learn to more …
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The truth is, I have no friggin’ idea what I’m doing.
Spring in Glen Park, 10X12, oil on canvas, by little ol’ me. I once watched Lee Haber finish a lovely painting at Rye Painters on Location in less time than it took me to fall over my easel. I really admire plein air painters who never seem to “flail around” (as my pal Brad Marshall …
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Another Roadside Attraction
Sketch of a commercial building somewhere in Binghamton, NY, done from a diner window. Sadly, I could never find it again, and they had really good pie. Yesterday I was flipping through a used-up sketchbook, and came across this little watercolor done many years ago. It’s another roadside scene en route to New York City; …