What a Difference a Day Makes

 

So this is what I look at out my studio window...and when a summer storm comes blowing into town...well things change....all day long the view changes...the light changes ....but my feeling for this place doesn't really change...I just keep loving it....oil on canvas  24x36" 36x36"

Farm House by the Sea

This old farm house is on Block Island...I can see it from our house...I have always loved the way it looks  facing out to sea...imagine all of those sunsets it has witnessed over the hundreds of years it has stood there strong and solid like the stone wall leading up to it....can you see the sun setting over the water?...oil on canvas   11x14"

Flag Day

Today is my mother's birthday and in her honor I will post a painting of the flag flying at our home on Block Island...her ashes were buried around this pole....I don't know what the flag is but I did this quick study a few weeks ago at sunset while on the island...it is an oil on canvas 16x20"? I can't remember the exact size...

Arlo Guthrie's Church

    The class went out landscape painting today and ended up down the road from the studio in Van Deusenville(now  part of Gt Barrington Ma)...This church belongs to Arlo Guthrie and it is a music center and spiritual center, it was also made famous in a film back in the 60's... This is the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's life, celebrated here all summer....I've been meaning to paint this building for about 30 years ...finally did...hope to again soon...I have done alot of painting this week and had  to hang several shows....come check out the student show at Front St Gallery...great work...there until July 1....oil on canvas 30x30"

The Ball Jar is Full of Springtime

First came the daffodils then came the apple blossoms...both of them filled the Ball Jar just fine...It was a great year for the daffodils, they lasted for weeks....and the trees were full to the brim with apple blosssoms....after spending the morning working on a Venice watercolor I had to get back to the real world so I would do one of these oil studies....I love the way the water looks in the jar....both are 16x20"





The Horses of Block Island

Today we had to leave the island ...but for several days all I did was paint what I saw, and I saw these horses...as well as many other things....these are sketches, oil sketches...done very quickly on sight....so they are NOT perfect...but an impression...the colors tend to be exagerated....they are small...16x20 20x20"

View from the Studio Door, Springtime

The pansies and chives are blooming in the old whiskey barrel...the Berkshire Hills are turning that brilliant green that only happens in May....and the train tracks are waiting for the next freight to come through Housatonic while the weeds get a fresh start growing up in the trap rock around the railroad ties...oil on canvas 36x24"

A Plant in the Studio

I don't know what kind of plant this is...except when I saw it at the greenhouse I wanted to paint it...and so I did...finally after looking  at it for a week or more I was able to do this study of it....I loved the cloth with the roses on it   oil on canvas 20x20

Night Time Canal in Venice

This painting speaks for itself....Wonderful light on the water at night...and the inevitable tower looming...there is the sense of mystery in the ancient buildings....watercolor gouache 22x30"

Tulips on the way out

I cannot believe a week has gone by since I posted last...so many paintings, so little time to post them...well here is a study of the dying tulips and the new chair in the studio...it belonged to my student's mother, who has just died....and so it finds a new home and is added to the subject of paintings....last weekend I was involved in three gallery openings...hanging the shows and doing the party....way too many...but....so it goes....wish you had been there....and if you were , thank you.....oil on canvas 30x30"

The View From the Gondola

As you can see, this is what I saw from where I sat in the  gondola...quite a nice view of the quiet canals weaving in and out of the ancient buildings...a wonderful way to spend some time in Venice...watercolor 22x30"

Three studies of Venice

The first was a vision just at dusk of the gondolas and San Giorgio in the distance, actually the lights of the Lido are off to the left...Secondly, The laundry hangs from a building in the Arsenale and is reflected in the canal...sea weed clings to the wall and moves with the current...The last painting is of a foot bridge(they all are)crossing the Grand Canal with some wonderful boat going under it...more reflections in the water... all are watercolor and goauche 22x30"

The Last Portrait of Bob

Well here is the last potrait that I did of Bob...I am amazed at how different each one is...How a different side of his personality is revealed to me and captured in each new composition...you never know what you will see when you start to paint...oil on canvas 24x24"

Three Orchids Plants in Paradise

Walking around in the Botanical Garden ( an old sugar plantation)in St Croix one comes apon an old stone building filled with orchids...no roof...just the tropical light filtering in...but then as you look up into the trees surounding this spot you see the orchids have climbed up into, and are growing in this natural environment...gorgeous oil on canvas 24x24"

Uno Ponte

well this bridge was really very lovely...right outside our hotel window...I loved the way the water looked under the bridge....and the sunset and the boats and all the little Pontes one had to cross to walk up to Piazza St Marco...watercolor and gouache 15x15"

Venice, morning, sunset and dusk

These watercolor studies were done from our hotel room window at the "Bucintoro" in the Arsinale neighborhood of Venice...every time I looked out the window I wanted to start another painting...I could spend a year easily painting what I loved about Venice...more to come I hope...these are watercolor and gouache 12x16"

More of the Islands,St Croix USVI

here are some more very quick sketches from the beach...amazing to look at as now we are in Venice...and this is very different....lots of water but a whole new vision of beauty...man made and very old ....i will try to paint this.... gouache watercolors

Down in the Islands

Time passes too quickly when you are having fun...St Croix is still a very beautiful place to hang out on the beach...and paint when the spirit moves you...which is just about all the time and everywhere I look I see something that I would love to paint...these are all watercolors and gouache 12x12" 12x16"

The Circus is Still in Town

These three studies are the most recent work I have done on the circus...each one tells a story...I love the way this tent is so blue and the stars are so prominent...the great color extravaganza...watercolor and goauche on paper@20x24"

Agapanthus for my Birthday

Jack and Sam ( my step son and his fiance')were kind enough to bring me these gorgeous flowers on my birthday...They were so inspiring in this blue vase,I brought them to the studio to paint...and then the work began...there were actually @ 10 flowers and stems but I removed (in my mind) the other @ 5 stems, less is more?...the fabric in the background was recently purchased at a french bedding outlet....one eurosham (almost a small table cloth)...all I can afford...but the ochre color with the purple blue was really a turn on....and then there was the old stool apon which it sat....so many considerations when composing the still life....a picture is worth a thousand words?? oil on canvas 24x36"