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My Art Blog
Painting South Africa's colorsOne month since I came back from the best trip of my life to South Africa. We toured Soweto, Johannesburg, Pilgrim's Rest and Blyde River Canyon, went on safaris in Krueger National Park and Swaziland, spent time in Zululand, Drakensberg mountains, took the Sani Pass to Lesotho, saw Durban and…(continue reading)
Featured Gallery: Art soldAbstract colorful paintings have found a home in the US from California to Washington DC, and abroad in Belgium and Israel...(view gallery) Working in oil with palette knives by Charles GuayThis Thursday Charly Guay will demonstrate his palette technique at Happy Hollow and the Gallery next Door in Mansfield. Charly was my teacher for a couple of years and I learned a lot about painting from him: oil, acrylics, brushes and palette knives. I saw his wonderful paintings, can really appreciate...(continue reading) Sharon Creative Arts Association Show at Hunakai StudiosSaturday night was the reception for the fall SCAA show at Hunakai Studios in Foxboro.There were lots of entries well displayed from our local artists. I have four or my latest pieces in the show, and as they are larger and more colorful than most of the other pieces of art entered, they are on the back...(continue reading) Show and TellA very successful "Show and Tell" meeting kicked of the 2011/2012 season of the Sharon Creative Arts Association. Some artists shared their work, others told about events or presented other artists' work.Each member had stories to accompany their presentation.We reconnected with each other and who...(continue reading) Commissioned PaintingI got my first commissioned painting and it was an exciting enterprise. I was to paint a huge triptych, each panel larger than anything I ever painted before, resembling my diptych that has found a home in Palo Alto.This was a very different way of painting. I was not in front of a blank canvas...(continue reading) Surviving IreneBy the time Irene hit our town, Sharon in Massachusetts, it had become a tropical storm. The trees in Sharon did not know that the hurricane was downgraded and in every street in town one can find fallen trees and tree limbs. That was the scariest part of the storm, winds howling and...(continue reading) |
