FLEXIBILITY

LITTLE

4x4

Expect the unexpected. From East Coast to West Coast  in the blink of an eye. From Boston Summer  to San Francisco fog. Luckily a painter can take it on the road. Dr. Einstein needs an assistant  this week!

WEDDING PRESENT

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Gosh, I hope the happy couple doesn't follow my Blog!

The photos I was given had no shadows. I had fun playing and stretching  color and shapes

PAINTING AN OBJECT

WISHING WELL

6x6

I have been asked to paint a "Wishing Well" for a wedding present. It is challenging to pant an object rather than a feeling. This is one of the  studies for a larger painting. How to funk up a wishing well and make it a joy for the bride and groom and still feel proud that the work is not just a pretty picture. Any ideas?

PATCHWORK

PATCHWORK

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Trying out some new dance moves. Do you ever get sick of the same old?

REDUX

REDUX 32x28

Yesterday I went through the stacks and freshened up some paintings

This is the old one. It was really bugging me

HOT AND STEAMY

HOT AND STEAMY

8x5 Click here to purchase

Heat wave on the East coast.

SAVE THE DATE!

Come and PAINT FROM THE HEART with me NOVEMBER 16-17

at the 

THE MENDOCINO ART CENTER in Northern California. 

JULY 4

 JULY 4

32x25

Bless our beautiful country

Enjoy this sizzler of a day

THE GREAT ESCAPE

THE GREAT ESCAPE 

6x6

This months GJWP challenge is an interpretation of E E Cummings poem "Maggie and Millie and Molly and May" My painting is a lose interpretation of his poem. I used a different metaphor than the sea. I doubt if EE would mind. I mean.... what's that poem about? 

I also want to give some credit to my 7 year old great nieces Maggie and Ava for showing me how to paint a butterfly!

QUIET SPACE

QUIET SPACE

12x12

This is available at the  ROWLEY GALLERY in Orleans MA. It was painted in the midst of the Orleans 25th Annual Garden Tour. It was a peaceful spot. Can you hear the birds?

WEST COAST ART

I had the good fortune of meeting Marguerite Elliot on my trip in CA. She is an artist, curator and video producer in the Bay area. Her small and large scale mixed media pieces concern socio/political, environmental and feminist issues. I went up to Ross CA and saw her current exhibit at Sam the Butcher Gallery.

Other news. I will be painting at a garden in the Orleans 25th Annual Garden Tour tomorrow with a Reception to follow at  THE ELIZABETH ROWLEY GALLERY from 4-6.

Also

I am happy to be participating in the THE COPLEY SOCIETY Summer Members Juried Exhibit. The Opening is next Saturday June 29.

FINO ELEGANTE

40x28

River is in good hands with Dr Einstein

WINE COUNTRY

WES'S SAUSALITO VIEW

9x5

Lucky lady am I. I went up to NapaValley to visit some dear friends, Gerard and Patricia Zanzonico. Gerard is the winemaker for Del Dotto Vineyards in St Helena.

 The cave. Every tile and stone is imported from Italy

 The SALAMIRIAM. No joke...they make their own salami

The bathroom doors are gorgeous

The Man

How about the size of this shrimp!

I got a lot of good pictures

Thanks Guys

WEST AND EAST

GOLDEN GATE

8x8

THINK MAINE

30x25

I have been working on this for a while from my little "dabbling" sketch in my make shift Studio. I might tweak it a bit.

BRAG TIME

 

KITCHEN SINK

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This coming week-end is the SOUTH SHORE ARTS FESTIVAL. I will be missing it as I am in California doing other creative work....working with Dr. Einstein. However I will be well represented at the Festival. This painting can be seen in the ART tent and I am proud to have my painting DUET be the poster painting for the Festival and the program cover for the event.

DUET

20x20

HEARTY ROSES

HEARTY ROSES

8x8

Dr. Einstein  comments that he wishes he could be a woman when he grows up because he would like to be a Doctor.!!!!!!!!! "Oh the times they are a changin"

SPECIAL TIME

DABBLING

4x4

Make shift studio set up in California

Hanging with Dr. Einstein and liking his style..using double brushes simultaneously! Brilliant!

We are so carefree, we wake up and paint in our pajamas. YES!

Keeping busy on projects..digging up the walkway

Because...we are waiting for RIVER MAXWELL JACOBS to come home from the hospital

WELCOME HOME New Little Brother 

Thayer Academy

8x8

Check out the GJWP tomorrow

Dr. Einstein has invented a new software for Apple. 

PLUGS

HEALTHY LIVING MAGAZINE

Great resource for alternative health. Nice of Candita Mamet to select my painting for the cover!

                                                        YOGA ON THE RIVER
Art and Yoga keep me going. Yoga along the river every Saturday morning is pretty cool. I am glad to be one of the teachers.

OLD AND NEW

Lots of activity in the Local Arts this week-end. I spiffed up the following for upcoming events

HARBOR LIGHTS

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 I forgot to take a picture of my "spiff up" for this one. This was juried into the wonderful NORTH RIVER ARTS FESTIVAL in Marshfield MA

KITCHEN SINK

38x26

This  will be in the Members Show at the SOUTH SHORE ARTS FESTIVAL in Cohasset, MA in June

PEACHES

20x20

This will one of the deliveries to THE ELIZABETH ROWLEY GALLERY  in Orleans, MA on Cape Cod. The gallery has a new fresh look with some amazing new Gallery artists. 

NORTH STREET STUDIO

This is THE best Studio one could have. It can be a big old mess when I am painting and it "cleans up real good" when I want to show it off. Come and visit on Sunday 1- 4...Be there in the Square

MARSH SHADOW

MARSH SHADOW

40x30

35x30

Commissions are brutal. It seems people have an image in their mind of what they want to see but the problem is the painter can't see that same image. Here are 2 paintings of the commissioned view. Which would YOU choose? 

Mark your calendar:

Sunday MAY 19 1-4 PM

OPEN STUDIO in the old NORTH STREET STUDIO space.

Be there in the Square

INSPIRATION

YELLOW

20x16

RED

20x16

I love Stanley Bielen's work. How does he make such beautiful, heart wrenching still lifes?