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; …
Go see this show!
Those of you in the mid-Hudson region ought to run, not walk, to see Bruce Bundock’s show at the Rosendale Café, which opens this Sunday. He’s simply the best plein air draftsman around, but that distinction would be meaningless without his palpable empathy for the lives of regular folks. He’s painted iconic buildings, but he …
From inside my pointed little head
Fantasia, by little ol’ me. 11X14, or something. I think the light shape needs work but it has potential. Due to a medical emergency (not mine) our regularly scheduled blog entry will be delayed tonight. It will keep. In the absence of that, here’s a sketch I painted today. It’s neither plein air nor a …
Those days when you don’t get anything done
A distraction. Definitely a distraction. On the advice of a management consultant, I’ve decided to write down what I do every day, in the hope that I can hire some of it out and have more time to paint. I set out with the goal of doing a small landscape sketch from my imagination, based …
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