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.

Woe is me

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pigeons #4

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

Pigeons #3

Another one down, and one more to go.

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.

Pigeons #1

I finished the first of the pigeons series.

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.

Art Walk

I set up at the Ridgefield Art Walk this weekend. I sold four paintings. Woo Hoo!

No longer waiting

All done.

waiting with color

The watercolor portion of the piece is done. On deck...acrylics.

Waiting

I November I am in a group show at Rockwell Art and Framing. They liked my people paintings best but wanted pieces that I have not shown in the area yet. Men at Work I have not shown yet so that will be in the show. I am making this piece for the show.

series 6 - All Done

finally, all done. As a last step I covered each with a coat of matte gel varnish. It took away the vibrancy of the colors and it really bummed me out. Up till that point I was pretty happy with these.

Charcoaled Series Six

My next step in the Series Six series was charcoal. I was having a tough time visualizing what the addition of charcoal would look like. Then I started having second thoughts and was about to scrap the whole idea. But I stuck to my guns and charged ahead with the charcoal. Well I am glad I did. I loved the results. Next...acrylics.

Whoa, after I posted this I notice the paintings were set up exactly like the previous photo before the charcoal. Way creepy.

Cutting Board revisited

My art is now hanging at the Cutting Board. Here are a couple of picts.

Series six progress

I know I have been dragging my feet on this series. But some progress has been made. I am done with the watercolor portion of this series. Charcoal up next. And by the way, if anyone tells you that newspaper is a great watercolor surface, slap them down!

The Cutting Board

The cutting Board in Ridgefield, CT will be hanging my art. My representative is picking up my paintings today. Can't wait to see it myself. This is the first time that I don't have to hang the work myself.