So, the first studio tour I’ve done here is over. It was a great opportunity to connect with neighbors and art lovers in general. We had a great turnout and some pieces went to appreciative new homes. The best part is talking with people and getting their take and feelings about the work. Already looking forward to the next studio tour in 2018. The Shoreline Artists’ group is the best artists’ co-op I’ve encountered yet!
Next year, I hope to have some larger new work to add. That’s all for now. Have an art filled summer.
Studio Tour Update
Gone Sketching
2015 is drawing to a close and with the advent of a new year there will be a few changes in your lives I’m guessing and most definitely in mine. This post will be the last one for this year 2015 but it also indicates an artistic change of direction for the upcoming year. Over the next couple of months, the links from the images to the online site Daily Paintworks will disappear. I may be starting a new account elsewhere but for now I am taking a hiatus from online sales.
I will be making art, of course, but am more interested in returning to my roots as a biologist and reviving my passion for field sketching in particular. It’s a passion from a time when I worked as park naturalist and my roommate for the summer was an artist who helped me see the joy in capturing and illustrating the observations I was making through sketching. Painting and sketching have been a constant in my life and so this is not a departure but rather just a re-emphasis.
I recommend it highly to anyone who would like to connect with ‘the creation’ through the ‘creation’ of sketches and illustrations of your own part of the planet. Maybe I’ll see you in the field with binoculars, camera, and sketch pad.
Au Premier Coup
Hanging out the wash will soon be replaced by the winter practice of using the dryer in the basement. This piece was done during a good drying day last summer. I did it quickly from the shade of the back patio. I can almost see the shimmer of the hot day and feel the humidity that had me parked for an hour doing this all at once effort or as the french say, ‘au premier coup’. Mon dieu, c’etait tres chaud c’est jour la!
8×10 in., oil on board.
Cat in the Covers
8×10 in., oil paint on gesso panel
Cats have routines don’t they? Morning can find them acting like alarm clocks as they call out for the household to wake up. Once our cat has done his job for the morning, by rousing us out of a sound sleep, he settles in to occupy the warm spots vacated by the humans. He has us so well trained. I managed to catch him just as he snuggled in and had to record the rhythm and harmony of the repeated shapes and curves of cat and covers. They seemed to be especially designed for cat naps. Straightening out the sheets and smoothing the covers can wait for now. Ssshhh…