Irresistible Palette

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I love these colors. I use similar strong complimentary colors often to create a painting that has power.

I took Night Begins to the Butternut Gallery where it will hang with Goldenrod Field for the next month or so. The Butternut Gallery and Second Story Books is at 42 Church Street Montrose PA 570-278-4011. They are open Wed-Sun afternoons. Both paintings are framed with mats in rustic gold wood frames about 17 inches square overall. Night Begins is a studio painting and Goldenrod Field is a plein air painting. They are each priced at $400.

Fall Brook, World Wide Paint Out

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September 5th was the day of the World Wide Paint Out. Painters who work outside thought about their fellow artists in Brazil, Italy, Australia and Canada as they either painted alone or with a group.

Our group of 11 Northeast PA oil painters, watercolorists and pastellists had a ton of fun and made an important discovery...Batter Busters!!!perfectly delicious organic pancake batter in a squirt can!!! NFI, but we think everyone should know about this fuel for outdoor painting. It proved to have creative powers, too. Some folks made multiple paintings. I only got this one at Salt springs State Park, but I like it very much.

This painting will be for sale in the very near future. If you are interested in it, contact me because I have promised paintings to several local venues and will have to tell you where you can see it. It is 8 x 12 inch image size, framed with a mat in a rustic wood frame and the price is $400 wherever it is shown. The overall framed size is about 16 x 20.

NEPA Regional Art 2008

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Two of my Fig Street Series plein air pastels will be shown in this exhibit. My work will be hanging at the Hope Horn Gallery, University of Scranton, although the exhibit includes Keystone College's
Linder Gallery, AFA Gallery and Marywood University Galleries as well. The progressive reception starts on the 11th at 2pm at the Hope Horn Gallery. I will miss the festivities because I will be here in the studio hosting visitors during the Artists' Open House Weekend.

Both paintings were done on location in my daughter, Zoë's, Scranton backyard garden. It is a lively and colorful spot.

Artists' work was chosen from 25 counties;16 in Pennsylvania, 6 in New York and 3 in New Jersey. So I am very happy & honored to be included. The Hope Horn Gallery is a beautiful venue at the University of Scranton.

Award Winning Painting

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All of the artists & sculptors who created the 53 works chosen by the juror to be in the Endless Mountains Council of the Arts 12th Annual Regional Art Exhibition are winners and some of us won awards.

My pastel painting "Ahead of the Storm" took second place and a nice cash prize. Thank you.

You can see the whole exhibit at two venues in Tunkhannock, PA through September 28: Wyoming County Courthouse Gallery during weekday business hours and EMCA, 302 W. Tioga St , Fri, Sat, Sun 1 to 5pm. 570-836-EMCA

"I been everywhere, man"

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Well, Pennsylvania to Wisconsin to Minnesota and back! Mission accomplished - as stated in the previous post; 3150 miles of beautiful landscape (forgetting for a moment the 3 1/2 hours spent in 3mph traffic trying to get through/around Chicago! ), 12 paintings painted during the Door County Plein Air Festival, 4 sold during the exhibition, many new and interesting people met and some friends visited along the way...one of them a bonsai enthusiast & expert. I was delighted with my ride, but I can't seem to get the overall average above 48mpg in my '07 Prius. I am definitely not complaining.

This is "Jeweler's Garden", the painting I made in Wisconsin during the Saturday morning two hour quick-paint and purchased at auction. It went to a good home in Chicago...and I didn't have to drive it there - whew!

I'm Off to Wisconsin & Minnesota

The Studio will be closed* until August 5 when I return from the Door County Plein Air Festival where I am an invited participant in a busy week of painting & exhibiting. Then over to Duluth to visit friends. Then solo drive back. I hope to make some good paintings, meet some new people, see some old friends, learn something about the art of bonsai, set a personal high mpg record in my Prius, listen to two audio books and see miles of landscape and sky!

In the meantime my paintings can be seen at The Butternut Gallery, Schulman Gallery at Luzerne County Community College and EMCA Auction show. Check my website for more info.

*closed to bears & birds, too....see previous entry.

Last Visitor Gets to Choose

The Summer Exhibit and sale here at the studio was a big success...34 paintings sold! and many prints and pots. Despite the diminished selection to choose from the last visitor came at 9 am Monday and took whatever he wanted!

Rosalita (fearless Australian Cattle Dog) and Leo (her backup black lab) tried to deter this big male black bear, but he pretty much treated them as pesky flies. I've never been happier that my dogs have excellent recalls. They came in the house and we barricaded the doors and windows.

I knew I was tempting fate leaving my bird feeders up this summer and I am just glad no one got hurt. The bear had a beautiful black coat and was quite handsome with awesome brute strength. (we tried to bend the metal pole back again).

All of the rest of our many visitors were much better behaved...thankfully....and when he arrived I was going around the garden telling my daughter about the "exciting" re-appearance of the Rudbeckia maxima in front of the greenhouse!!!