Thursday, December 30, 2010

Working backwards

I bought these three frames at an art tag sale. So I am working backwards, getting the frames first then creating the art that goes with them. I decided on three florals. The large crow feather at the bottom of the picture I am going to cut and use it as a pen. I hope it works.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Gabby Gal

Here is the other pice to go with Gabby Guy. Same size and everything 18" x 24" on masonite. Newspaper glued down, ink, watercolor then acrylic.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Gabby Guy

I know it has bee n a long time. I have been caught up in the Pirate a Day blog. I finally finished one of the two Gabby paintings.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Watercolor update

I forgot how much I don't enjoy painting watercolors on newspaper. But that part of the process is done. On to acrylics.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Art Shows

The opening at Rockwell went well. No sales, but a full house. Also hung my art at Nature's Temptation in Ridgefield. The first pictues are from Rockwell, the last one from Nature's Temptation.






























Monday, November 29, 2010

Back to normal

If you are looking for the pirate sketches it has migrated over here.

I have started two new pieces. Since the smaller ones on paper have been popular, I am going to try a larger size. I have been trying to figure out what to do with these photos I took in Bryant park, and this is it. they are both 18" x 24".

Pirate a Day

Chris and I made the big move. We now have a stand alone blog called Pirate a Day.
So from now on visit Pirate a Day for the pirate updates, This blog will go back to my other art.

Pirate Grudge Match Day 12

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.
















From Chris
















Me

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 11

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.



















From Chris
















From Me

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 10

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.

















from Chris






















From Me

Friday, November 26, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 9

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.



















From Chris






Thursday, November 25, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 8

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.















Chris






































Mine

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 7

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.

The Lookers

I finally finished this piece up. 15" x 22" on watercolor paper. Ink, watercolors and acrylics.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match day 6

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.












From Chris






















From me

Monday, November 22, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match Day 5

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.


















From Chris










































Sunday, November 21, 2010

Pirate Grudge Match day 4

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.


Mine

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Pirates Day 3

Header: My friend Chris Smith challenged me to a sketch a day grudge match until New Year's Day.

Day 3

From Chris


From me


Friday, November 19, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Grudge Match

My friend Chris Smith has challenged me to a grudge match. Everyday we send each other a sketch. Somehow we got on a pirate theme. I guess the first image looked like a pirate to me, so I did a pirate back and so on. Anyway I will be posting our sketches here every day. Enjoy.



















Chris Smith



















Mine

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Wilton Pizza

Here is my work hanging at Wilton Pizza.

Monday, November 08, 2010

Coming Along

About half way through the watercolor process.

Thursday, November 04, 2010

News and work

The big news is I am going to hang my art at Wilton Pizza this weekend. And in December I am going to hang my work at the Sundance Cafe in Stamford.

In other news I just started this new piece.

Monday, November 01, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Progress Report

After a little trouble I was finally able to upload an image. Here is a progress image of the Old Couple I am painting.


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Woe is me

For some reason blogger won't let me add an image. Hmmm.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Ridgefield Arts Council

A few weeks ago I was asked to become a board member of the Ridgefield Arts Council. I accepted. Then I had to be approved by the board itself. Once that was okay I then had to be vetted by the town and then be interviewed by the town board of selectmen. That happened last night and I was approved. Woo hoo! Now I have to be sworn in by the town clerk and it is all official.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Commissioned Piece

I forget where I left off on the commissioned piece I did. My friend was happy with the work. The big questions was will his wife liked it. After a lot of nail biting, she loved it. Yay!  Her is the piece.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

I'm back

The commissioned piece was picked up tonight and I am already into my next piece. I have a show coming up this november and I want to get this new piece done for it. Here is the inking phase.


Sunday, October 03, 2010

AWOL

I know I have not posted in a while I am working on a commission piece for a surprise. I'm not sure if the person the piece is for reads my blog so I am not posting it yet.

Here is something interesting which I am going to join. It is a sketchbook project. Rather than getting into the details here , go to this link. It looks very cool and something right up my alley.

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Pigeons #4

Here it is, the last of the 4 part series.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Pigeons #3

Another one down, and one more to go.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Pigeons #2

Here is the second one of the series of four. After finishing the watercolor portion of the painting, I just couldn't see how adding acrylics would make this any better so I stopped after the watercolors.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Pigeons #1

I finished the first of the pigeons series.

Monday, August 16, 2010

A new brush

 a long time ago I bought this brush that I have been dying to try. well I finally took the wrapper off and took it out for a test drive. I decided to use it for this pigeon series. They are from pictures I took in NYC. I did the brush work then did a little spritzing with a spray bottle while the ink was still wet.