Two Oblong Ceramic Plates I Made for Father’s Day
He uses these plates everyday for his smorgasbord of a breakfast, and they help him start his day with a smile.
Art
Human Thought Must Conform to Truth
Truth is universal, impartial, supreme. It can’t be divided up, nor curated into one selective brand of reality. Neither can it act as a pendulum…
Purely Pastel Show at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts
I really enjoyed going to the opening of this lovely show given by the Connecticut Pastel Society at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Lovely Day Plein Air Painting at Chatfield Hollow State Park
To me plein air painting is about fusing all the sights and sounds and smells in an approximated image. I look at my painting from that day (done in pastel) and I smell again the pungent pine trees and the mud stirred up by many rubber boots…
I’m in the EndWorks: Out of Darkness Show
My piece is about how the shards of violence are very dramatic and demanding, in our face and catching our attention, but that hope is ever glowing, and reassuringly beckoning.
Diana Sanford (Featured Artist)
There aren’t too many contemporary pastel artists doing terrific abstract work, so I have been delighted to come upon Diana Sanford.
I’m in this New Pond Farm Invitational Art Show
I have six landscape paintings done in pastel in this Invitational Art Show at New Pond Farm. Stop by soon if you are local!
Two New Landscape Paintings in Pastel
Over Memorial Day Weekend I completed these two new landscape paintings of New Pond Farm done in Pastel.
Chihuly at the New York Botanical Gardens
On Saturday night over Memorial Day Weekend, I went to “Chihuly Nights” at the New York Botanical Gardens. We had a wonderful time and I recommend going.
Two New Plein Air Landscapes in Pastel of New Pond Farm
The one above depicts the deep shade of the evergreen with the new leaves beyond in the sunken garden beside the house. The first photo below…
Featured Artist Elaine Hazelwood
An amazing gardener, and an accomplished artist, she is also a kindred spirit with a sage heart.
Pottery by Our Younger Daughter this Semester
The first one below she gave me for Mother’s Day, and I am delighted with it.
Women Abstract Expressionists
I thought I’d share with you my favorite three new-to-me artists that I read about here.
In the Company of Women (Book Review)
Lets keep forwarding and amplifying the kind of authenticity, permission, and innovative ingenuity, expressed in these pages!
Qi (New Abstract Conceptualist Collage)
Qi is an indispensable word to Scrabble and Words with Friends players as the only two letter word with a q. But what it means is also cool: “the vital life force that flows through a body.”
I’m in This Juried Show in Essex
My large monoprint collage Youth Symphony is in this juried show at the Essex Art Association from May 6- May 27. We had a great time at the opening on Friday night with both old friends and new.
I Gave a Talk on Abstraction to the Guilford Arts League
Last night I gave a PowerPoint talk to the Guilford Arts League titled Abstraction: Between Realism and Non-Objective Art.