Sunset on Bear Hill Rd 12x36"

Sunset on Bear Hill Road 12x36" Oil

I've started a series of paintings of Bear Hill Road in Merrimac MA.  This is a large horizontal painting that was completed after doing a drawing from some photos and after doing a color study approximately the same size.  I always had in mind to do a triptych of this scene as well.  The triptych is also finished as of today.  If you scroll down a couple of postings, you will see this painting before I changed the road.  Let me know what you think.

Central Street Gallery Winter Show

Central Street Gallery, Manchester by the Sea, Winter Show, through April.  Valentine Theme Reception.



Dale Greene and I attended Lynn Murray's reception last night for the opening of their Winter Show.  Lynn has recently done a series of paintings that involve water and/or dogs.  She kiddingly calls it her bow-wow series. Lynn is pictured here with her paintings.

Another artist friend, Barbara Levine, has some very nice new paintings on display as well.  Barbara is pictured on the right with Dale behind to the left.  This is a co-op gallery of 13 artists, most of whom I am acquainted with because of my association with David Curtis's Saturday plein air classes at Greenbelt's Cox Reservation.  David P. Curtis is one of Cape Ann's premier artists and a third generation artist as well.

NAA's current show is excellent!

The current show is for pastel, acrylic, photography, mixed media, and more.  Not oil.  Anyway, I was totally impressed at the large number of wonderful things in this show.  Be sure to see it if you can.  Congrats to everyone at Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA.

Tomorrow will be my last class with Lully and I'm almost finished with my 4 paintings that start the Bear Hill Road series of paintings.  Tomorrow I'm also attending a lecture at Salem State on marketing art.

I subscribed yesterday to a new on-line magazine that looks so beautiful I couldn't resist.  The pictures that accompany the articles are gorgeous.  Best of luck to the producers of this new mag. Artists on Art

Current Project - Bear Hill Series

12x36" Oil, Bear Hill Rd at Sunset

This is the first painting of the series which is being followed by a tryptic of the same scene.  

RED again in Boston Globe

This article is RIGHT ON...........

Making art, humanizing an artist, in "Red"

Also excellent photos by Craig Bailey

Rothko RED in Boston Globe

Read all about it..........
Boston Globe, Sunday, January 8, 2012

NAA Reception....a good time.

What a good time I had tonight at the reception of the new show at the Newburyport Art Association.  I ran into about 10 old friends and met some new ones.  The show is very good so be sure to see it.  One friend, Robin Thornhill, won two awards (for two paintings) while the Best in Show went to a sculpture that was totally awesome and it won two awards, I don't remember one art work winning two awards before now.  Another friend, Margaret Bernier, sold a painting at the reception!  I've been trying to meet Bob Marcellino, a friend of a friend of mine, for about two years and finally met him tonight and he is now a fellow member of NAA.  Bob introduced me to Jane Russell who won an award for a wonderful watercolor at this show.  I couldn't find a website for Jane for obvious reasons--I wish I could show you her work.

RED the play about Rothko

I saw the new play, RED, on opening night last night in Boston.  It's about Mark Rothko and was wonderfully done.  It's a two-man cast, Rothko and his assistant, and moves along quickly, keeping your interest to the end.  I enjoyed the audience as well, it's a thought provoking work.

NAA Reception Tonight

Both paintings I submitted were juried in and the reception is tonight, Saturday, Jan 7, at 7 p.m. at Newburyport Art Association.  I will bring my little marketing kit along to try to spread the word about the classes I am teaching starting mid-March.  If you have questions, please call me 978-273-3496.

Submitted 2 paintings to NAA's next show

I picked up two paintings Monday from Newburyport Art Association and brought two for the next show.  It is a juried show, so let's see what gets in!  I had one of those last-minute frame problems.  I couldn't get one on-line quick enough because of the holiday and didn't have enough molding left to make one.  The size I wanted, 9x12", isn't a popular size at any of the usual frame shops, but I found only one at Michael's and it was dark, so I painted the interior border to match the painting, and it came out really nice.  I saw this done recently at the Rockport Show.  I didn't take photos of either painting before delivering them, boy am I slipping.

One was a landscape, 8x10", of the pump on the common at West Newbury, MA.  It is actually the second of a series of three pump paintings I've been working on.  The other painting, 9x12" was done on a rainy day at Cox Reservation in Ipswich, MA.  It is completely en plein air, no touchup.