APPLES

I picked  bushels of apples out in Western MA last week to eat, make applesauce and of course to paint.

16x16
MACS
$450 click here to purchase



It rained last Tuesday so we painted apples....

We had set ups in 2 rooms

How beautiful is this? Nice Sue!!!

Pam preferred the couch to the apples

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FALL UNDERWAY

Did this little plein air painting for last Sat.night  show at the South Street Gallery. Felt great to be outside..catching the fading light.

WINSTONS
6x6
SOLD

Guess who is on the east coast?

 Dr Einstein is one busy fellow but taking a little time out to visit his grandmother.

PAINT THE SQUARE

Tonight! Art Reception at South Street Gallery, 149 South St, Hingham MA
 30 artists were invited to paint Hingham Square yesterday and tonight there will be a silent auction. It was a beautiful site to see artists painting all over the town.

CROSSING SOUTH 8x5
Come and bid !

CHERRY TOMATOES

Sloppy, Gloppy Paint. I am getting warmed up for the Tuesday morning FALL CLASSES beginning next week on Sept 18. We have a great group of painters, some experienced and some beginners...no competition..each of us working to paint from the heart. Come and join the fun.

CHERRY TOMATOES
6x6  $100

DREAM LANDSCAPE

I painted this from photos I took while on Martha's Vineyard.  I was also using a smaller painting as a reference. But the darn paints and brushes have a mind of their own.

DREAM LANDSCAPE 37x25 click here to purchase

THE GROOVY DECK

Does summer have to end?

The Groovy Deck
37x25
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LIGHTHOUSE

Motif number One on Monhegan Island

LIGHTHOUSE
4x4  $60 Click here to purchase
Sold

MONHEGAN ISLAND

Getting off the ferry and walking onto Monhegan Island,  Maine felt like being HOME. My grandmother used to summer there so most of the art I grew up surrounded by in my childhood home was collected in the 30's from artists painting on the island.
I had the pleasure of going to Kevin Beers open studio. Click here to see his colorful, light filled paintings. He shared some of his color combinations for his green which he always mixes...naples yellow, ultra marine blue-violet and some black to deepen the green. I didn't have those colors but experimented with ochre and white and ultra blue and black..fun to try new combos.
The best part was when he told me he had heard about a cool group from my area on the South Shore of Boston called GIRLS JUST WANNA PAINT. Loved that!

MUSEUM
 8x5 click here to purchase
sold

GOOD STUFF

One more martha's Vineyard painting. This is a sweet meadow in Edgartown.

SWEET MEADOW 6x6
$125 Click here to purchase

I would also like to share the beautiful work of my special god daughter Lillian Graham. Her work is so vibrant and colorful...just like her personality. Lucky god mother am I.

LIL, one hot ticket..you should see her dance!

STUFFED PEPPERS

Vineyard Haven Harbor beach

4x4 BEACHY KEEN $ 60

STUFFED PEPPERS 7x7 $125

RECIPE

Half red, yellow or orange peppers with stem on

Place in baking dish

Fill with halved cherry tomatoes, cubes of mozzarella cheese

fill peppers with olive oil

place anchovies on top optional

bake on 350 for 45 minutes or until caramelized

serve with a hunk of fresh bread

CHILMARK

Playing around with a quick sky a la Craig Mooney...fodder for a larger painting
CHILMARK 8x5

LAGOON PEACE

I am loving the beauty of Martha's Vineyard. I have wanted to paint this scene for a few years. The lagoon in Vineyard Haven.

LAGOON PEACE
20x20

THE REMEDY

This is my GJWP July challenge piece. The topic was HEAT, I actually took an old painting and re worked it.

The Remedy
7x7
$125

HYDRANGEAS

Hydrangeas
6x6
 $100

BABY ZINNIAS

Baby Zinnias

Baby Zinnias 6x6 - $100 click here to purchase

                                                                             

ZINNIAS

Zinnias are one of my favorite flowers. Zinnias mean July and August, great garden vegetables, cook outs, gatherings with friends and family. It doesn't get any better.

FOUR ROSES

The title sounds like a brand of scotch. I am playing around with neutral colors.

FOUR ROSES
6x6 acrylic
$100 Click here to purchase

I like to share my process because I enjoy seeing other painters process

HARBOR
30x24

I have worked over and over this one...

This looked TOO colorful and broken up

I lightened the sky and foreground...took out the flowers
I can't wait to return to this scene in a couple of weeks

Love Summer

The best weather ever in New England
Love Summer
8x8

GJWP theme is JULY

Check out this months paintings on the GJWP  site....JULY... That is when the peaches begin to get really good.

PEACHES 7x7 

Monhegan Beauty

I still have a few touch ups to do on this one. This is the museum on Monhegan Island...motif #1 up on this magical island.

Red Roof
40x26

RAILSBACK OPEN STUDIO

GALLERY CRAWL on June 22 - Friday

NORTH STREET OPEN STUDIO
HINGHAM MA
5-8 PM
New Paintings, wine and cheese

FOREVER FARBUSH at Oceanside 17, Hull,MA

KELLEY MACDONALD at Art Stable in Westport MA


ANN'S PIECE
20 X 16

THE BEAUTY OF GREY

This is a piece of the larger painting I completed this week-end. The piece is 25x40
You can se it at my
OPEN STUDIO this coming Friday
June 22  5-8
featuring my new work and we will be having a wine tasting. FUN!

Saw a lot of wonderful art this past week-end.
The South Shore Arts Festival represented so many gifted painters. This area is a mecca for painters.

I also saw the George Nick and his students exhibit at the Duxbury Art Complex. It was fantastic. Here are some comments from his students, now very accomplished artists.

Keep an eye out for values, tone, temperature and hue.
Be present in your process.
Simplify shapes, mark making and SQUINT.
Dig deep, make it meaningful
FEEL the color and light

George Nick

Famous now, students of Nick

When in school, they spent an entire semester working with shades of grey!

What an idea!!

GETTING IN THE GROOVE

Sometimes life gets in the way and I fall out of my painting flow. It is helpful for me to just slurp paint around expecting nothing to get myself back in the mood. This is a little study for a bigger piece that I am now working on....re doing an older painting I did that sold so quickly I never had time to show it

BLUE WATER
6x6   $90
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Tomorrow I am proud to accept the ROS FARBUSH color award at the South Shore Arts Festival. I know Ros is looking down and smiling.

Saturday night June 16  4-7 PM ...Come on down to the wine tasting and ART show at Local vines and gourmet Wine shop in Cohasset. wine and ART

ROWLEY GALLERY

Liz Rowley takes great care of her artists. This is a full page in the 2012 CAPE COD ART magazine. Another artist from the Rowley, Mike Rooney's painting is on the cover. Check out Mike's Blog. Jack Dickerson's profile is also in this magazine Jack and Kate Dickerson.
Lots of art to see in Orleans this summer

Scituate Garage
8x8

EASEL DOES IT

Soooooo....Let's just call it a little too 'right brained' after an incredible Polarity Therapy conference in Albuqerque NM. I actually spaced out the correct time of my flight back to Boston and missed my flight  !!!!!!!!

Soooooo...I used the time for a later flight as creatively as possible! I whipped this painting off in the hotel lobby !!!!!!! for an overdue post for the fabulous GJWP . Luckily the folks in New Mexico are pretty open minded and didn't think me weird at all.
I used the saran wrap surrounding the plastic cups for a palette on top of a tray (I am not staying at the Ritz), squeezed out some gobs of paint, one brush.... did my best to get the values down first go around. I used my phone to record the picture (not great), posted and headed right out for the airport
Yikes!

Some cool art in Santa Fe