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So much for a quiet start to the year! New work, new shows, and a lot of painting.
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So much for a quiet start to the year! The easel is full. While I wasn't expecting to be in any exhibitions for the beginning of the year, now I'm in two. When it rains, it pours.
The Studio Sale: 2020 Edition
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My Annual Studio Sale has begun. Here are all the details on discounts, freebies, buy-one-get-one-free deals and other fun. Happy shopping!
Stormy Weather: On Clouds and Painting
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It’s easy to admire a perfectly cloudless day on a mountain summit. It means we rarely consider our fears about coldness, damp, or the possibility of getting lost. In summer daylight runs long. There’s a swimming hole down the trail once we’re back in the hot, humid air of the trees. Perhaps there’s a cold beer at day’s end. We love these days because they are uncomplicated. Climbing the mountain was made less strenuous by the absence of clouds. Though I love this type of day, especially when traversing a long, exposed range of mountains; in my paintings I gravitate...
The latest large scale oil on canvas painting from my studio. Watch me paint!
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Here's what I've been up to in the studio for the last few months! Watch an amazing cloudscape come together in this timelapse of my oil on canvas painting "Osgood Trail, Mount Madison, N.H." painted between February and April 2017. This is over twenty hours of painting time condensed into about a minute and half!
What's Happening? A Springtime Art Studio Update
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Welcome to Spring (sort of!) We’ve had some crazy weather over the last week here in Boston. There were several balmy days in the upper 60s, melting virtually all the snow we got earlier in February. But temps dropped over the weekend and Saturday night saw furious rain and wind lashing at our windows in the dark. It pounded loudly against the sides of our greenhouse, which had reach 92 degrees inside just a day before. Now it’s chilly again. In the studio I’ve been catching up on varnishing oil paintings long since dried and cured. It is very satisfying...