CHIPS Y HUMMUS

A lot of chips are consumed in Mexico. They are delicious and hummus is a nice break from the every day salsa and gaucamole. Puerto Vallarta has a Farmers Market every Saturday with Organic produce, and fresh organic hummus, pasta, homemade sauces, meats, flowers, soaps, essential oils, fresh breads and baked goods. They even have puppies and kittens for sale and a chinese cook stand for breakfast while you are shopping! All of this to live music. It is definitely a "happening'
Check out the February Challenge www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com and the featured article about this group of fun painters in South Shore Living magazine http://www.ssliving.com/South-Shore-Living/march-2011/girls-just-wana-paint/

Chips Y Hummus
6x6 on paper

MEXICO WORKSHOP

Day 3 of our workshop. The weather is perfect and the group is very enthusiastic, having great paintings. Today we will paint on the beach


Birds Of Paradise
16x12

STUDIO 277 VIDEO

Big Night

STUDIO 277 - Puerto Vallarta - Art Reception - 2/18 - Full Moon

small sketch

Today is the first day of our Puerto Vallarta mini workshop. The weather is perfect. This sketch is a warm up for a larger painting....lots to change.

TABLE FOR TWO

Table for Two  30x30

STUDIO 277 Puerto Vallarta

VALENTINES DAY

Puerto Vallarta celebrates "Friendship Day" This could not be a more kind, friendly neighborhood. The bright sun and perfect climate might help.

Calle Iturbide
20x16 acrylic on canvas

WIBBLE WOBBLE

A lovely view to enjoy a morning cup of tea. This is the beloved church in the Centro of Puerto Vallarta.

Cathedral  Guadalupe
5x5 acrylic on paper

KINDERGARTEN BABY

View From Bed
6x5 acrylic on paper

WINTER EDGE

Last post was painted in the snow as I dreamed of summer. This post is painted from a warm climate. Go Figure!  This is the subject for the www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com Challange. Check out all of the talent with this gang.

COMMISSION

Kind of weird to be painting a summer scene with a fresh foot of snow outside! This is a commission. I have painted variations of this scene throughout the years. Apparently this beach is now completely gone due to erosion, storms and earth shifts. I hope the painting is well received. Time to go and shovel.

40x22

Cave Creek Part 2

This trip is better than I ever could have imagined..we are painting fools

12x12

Jane Reed's work is really too beautiful. She is a real PRO

CAVE CREEK AZ

I am painting and hanging out with a dear old friend JANE REED. She is a beautiful painter and I am humbly painting along with her in the wild west

12x12 acrylic on board

These last 2  are Jane's pieces. What a mentor!
She also has a fabulous art collection and 3 of them in this home are by Becky Joy!!! and they are gorgeous

SEASCAPE

The paintings in my studio had better hide if they don't want to be touched up and changed...I am on a rampage, I think this one was begging for a little more punch. What do you think?

36x24 acrylic on canvas

This can be seen in the MOTION juried show at the South Shore Art Center. The reception is Friday 6-8. All invited

HUNKER DOWN

We are expecting a big snow storm tomorrow..Oh Boy!

Hunker Down
24x18 acylic on canvas

RED HOUSE

I am still wielding the knife...re working unresolved pieces.

24x24 acylic on canvas

MACKENZIE PEARS

Today I played around with a palette knife. It is so cold here in New England that even the pears are shaking


Mackenzie Pears
20x20 acrylic on canvas

MOTION

The South Shore Art Center is calling artists to enter paintings that depict MOTION. I painted this large piece from a small painting done in California last month. Cars are a big challenge for me.

GOLDEN GATE
4 x 5 FEET

FIDDLE AND FUTZ

I got a little pre occupied with travel and Christmas so to get back into the painting groove, I fiddled and futzed around with some unfinished pieces.







Here is a piece I began a while ago and just finished.














Untitled...any suggestions?
28x28

COOL LIGHT

In the Bleak mid winter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow
snow on snow,
In the bleak mid winter
Long ago

Christina Rosetti 1872

MERRY CHRISTMAS

THE WITCHES

The good witch painted one and the bad witch painted the other. The question is which witch is which ?

HOME SWEET HOME

On a cold, rainy day..this is the place to CHILL OUT.

EAST COAST WINE

A TASTE FOR WINE AND SPIRITS had their Grand Opening last evening. They are located at 380 Chief Justice Highway Rte 3A, Cohasset MA. Debbie Hardee has done a great job with wine, beer, food and ART selection. 781-383-0058

Wine and Roses 36 x 24

South Street Gallery in Hingham MA  www.southstreetgallery.com is also having a small work Holiday opening this Saturday

Monthly Saturday WORKSHOP at North Street Studio Dec 11. Come and join the fun

GOLDEN GATE

A quick sketch. This bridge is a magnificent structure. The weather is dramatic every time it is crossed..either bright, clear and cold or foggy and wet with sky and mountains and San Francisco Bay bobbing and weaving above and below. I plan on doing a larger painting from this sketch.

GOLDEN GATE 20 x 16

DRY CREEK

DRY CREEK in Sonoma CA. Lovely countryside and the wine tasting isn't bad either!

17x15 acrylic on canvas

















Bubba D enjoyed the Vineyards too

SPIRIT

The theme this month for the 'Girls Just Wanna Paint' Challenge group is SPIRIT. Check out the variety of "Spirit" paintings at www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com

Lots of fun and variety

From this painter:

May you be filled with Loving Kindness
May you be at Peace and Ease
May you be Safe from Inner and Outer Harm and Danger
May you be HAPPY

'Spirit Energy' 7x7 acrylic on board

WEST COAST STUFF

I actually painted this on my last trip to San Francisco. Will get set up out here today to paint here for the next 2 weeks. This is a scene looking out of our car window driving around in Sonoma.....which is where we are going tomorrow.

SONOMA 30 x 16



the other GRAND news happening on the West Coast. Walter Carlton and myself have just opened a new Gallery called STUDIO 277 in Puerto Vallarta Mexico!

The Gala OPENING is Dec 1.
It is very exciting and well received.

Rocks and Latin

I  can't get over how breathtakingly beautiful the cold, November, full moon ocean is.

36x30 acrylic on canvas

















Here is the start of another. The artist Abraham Bogdanove, is my inspiration. he was a Russian painter that moved to NYC and Monhegan Island in the late 30's. My grandmother collected his art






 Sunday Nov 21 is the Fine Arts Chorale concert. My head is filled with Mozart and Haydn's Latin masses. What a lovely thing to have in my head, Rocks and Latin

NOVEMBER WORKSHOP

Last Saturday's workshop was  magical. We painted in the most glorious place with laboratory weather conditions. The next Saturday WORKSHOP is on DEC 11. Come and join us!

The light for the critique was amazing.

The Glades is the most beautiful land in our South Shore area...raw and untouched nature with some simple summer dwellings

HOLIDAY SHOWS

This is the HOLIDAY season and there are 3 wonderful small work events not to be missed.

North River Arts this week-end www.northriverarts.org.

The South Shore Arts Center www.ssac.org featuring an ongoing small works exhibit with a National Juried Show BODY LANGUAGE and the Copley Society www.copleysociety.org in Boston with a reception on Thursday evening November 18 

If that isn't enough, Come and paint at the NORTH STREET STUDIO Saturday workshop, Nov13. Lisa Daria Kennedy will be teaching with me http://lisadaria.blogspot.com :]

Week-End Work

The South Shore Art Center  www.ssac.org opened a new satelite Gallery in Hingham at the Shipyard last week. Kimberlee Alemian [sorry for the fuzzy photo] www.kcalemian.com gave a challanging drawing workshop this past week-end.

We worked on huge pieces of good quality watercolor paper using black and white paint and charcoal.

We had to work quickly for timed intervals while the model posed. There was no heat in the building so we took advantage of the loud music to move our whole bodies while making large, lose gestures.

OLD FAVs

This month our Challenge group topic is FASHION.
OY! I have never felt very comfortable keeping up with that venue, however style and being comfortable with your look is another story. I have had these wonderful boots for 15 years...they still make me feel great when I put them on.

7x7 acrylic on board

Check out the Challenge group's interpretation of
Fashion www.girlsjustwannapaint.blogspot.com

SIMPLE STILL LIFE

Felt good to do a nice big still life this week-end

SIMPLE STILL 40 x 28

The next Saturday workshop is on NOV 13.

For local Music lovers:
The Fine Arts Chorale
presents
Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
and Haydn's "Nelson Mass"
Sunday
November 21 2:30 PM
Old South Union Church
Weymouth MA
800 230 7555