January 16th, 2013
Just yesterday I flew from warm sunshine on a luminous Caribbean beach to the gray winter skies of New England. . Fortunately it was not too cold so re-entry was not as harsh as it might have been. Today my forest view is muted with softly falling snow. I had group of young artists […]
Posted in Art, Artists Journey, Castleton State College, painting, Plein air painting, Travel Study, VIERS, Virgin Islands Environmental Resource Station | 1 Comment »
June 1st, 2012
There are those who think Lake Powell is an environmental desecration. I agree. It was a mistake. A political pork barrel. A great tragedy in process. Many say it will fill with silt and sand within a few hundred years and cease to exist. But the old adage: ‘when you are given lemons, make lemonade’ […]
Posted in Acrylic, Birding, David Drummond, Desert, Lake Powell, painting, Plein air painting, Sculpture, Southwest, Thomas Moran, Wildlife Art | 6 Comments »
November 10th, 2011
Woody Gwyn in his studio The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Seeing the world through the eyes of another opens up new horizons. The art of Woody Gwynn offers a clear view into the distance. A year ago I had the good fortune […]
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November 10th, 2011
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Seeing the world through the eyes of another opens up new horizons. The art of Woody Gwynn offers a clear view into the distance. A year ago I had the good fortune to visit the studio of […]
Posted in Acrylic, Art, Landscape painting, Plein air painting, Woody Gwyn | 1 Comment »
October 18th, 2011
Not all who wander are lost. –Tolkein I have been wandering. Not alone, but with a group of students from Castleton State College. We’ve been all over the southwestern US. Studying art and anthropology, we are finding both in abundance. The markings left by ancient people resonate with their ancestral traditions. Art is what we […]
Posted in Ancestral Puebloan, Andrew Goldsworthy, Art, Hillerman, Native American, painting, plein air, Plein air painting, Pueblo Culture, River rafting, South west art, Southwest Art, Uncategorized, Wild Rivers Expeditions | 2 Comments »
September 20th, 2011
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. –Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior & orator There are moments when art just reaches out and grabs you […]
Posted in Art, Art exhibit, Blue Rain Gallery, Carson. New Mexico, Chaco Canyon, chaco canyon national monument, Doug West, Landscape painting, Native American, oil painting, Plein air painting, Pueblo Culture, quiet contemplation, Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM | 2 Comments »
April 23rd, 2011
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill Did you know that Winston Churchill was quite the painter? He was a late starter- He didn’t begin painting until he was 40- but over the next 48 years he painted more than 500 paintings. One of his works […]
Posted in Acrylic, Art, Art technique, Boston, Co/So, Community Art Projects, Copley Society, Liza Myers Gallery, painting, plein air, Plein air painting, Winston Churchill | 2 Comments »
April 13th, 2011
This is the most magnificent, balmy atmosphere in the world– ought to take dead men out of grave. Mark Twain in Hawaii As usual, Mark Twain is correct. Hawaii does have magnificent, balmy sea breezes which rustle through the palm fronds and froth the translucent waves. I had never been to these islands before, but […]
Posted in Art, Art technique, Artists Journey, Birding, Hawaii, Hawaii painting workshop, Holbein watercolor paints, Humuhumunukunuku apua'a, Liza Myers, Liza Myers Gallery, painting, Photography, Picasso Triggerfish, plein air, Plein air painting, Snorkeling, the Psychology of creativity, Thomas A Jagger, Uncategorized, Volcano National Park, Watercolor, watercolor brushes, Winsor Newton watercolor | 4 Comments »