Carousel in Winter
I painted this small landscape painting en plein air this past winter showing the carousel in Central Park. My viewpoint is from across one of the roads which transverses the park (65th and 66th Streets), but because of the ingenious design of the park, the park visitor has no awareness of because of the way […]
Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing: A Classical Approach to Drawing the Head by Mau-Kun Yim
Just received this book on Charcoal Portrait Drawing by Mau-Kun Yim that I had ordered and would like to report that I’m very pleased with it and highly recommend it. Below is link to youtube video of the artist demonstrating. Lessons in Masterful Portrait Drawing: A Classical Approach to Drawing the Head
FRANK MASON IN VERMONT: Artist and Teacher exhibition
Happy to say I will be in upcoming exhibit, FRANK MASON IN VERMONT: Artist and Teacher Exhibition, at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, Vermont. http://www.bryangallery.org/ Dates and Times Dates of the exhibition: Thursday, June 29 – Monday, September 4. The gallery is open daily during the exhibit, 11 – 5 and by appointment, earlier […]
NOAPS Spring 2017 On-Line International Exhibition
Glad to say that my painting Girl wSuitcase won Award in National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Spring 2017 exhibit
Artists Materials – Gilbert Stuart’s Palette – Natural Pigments
Source: Artists Materials – Gilbert Stuart’s Palette – Natural Pigments
Frank Mason’s House in Vermont
This was the last painting I did in Frank Mason’s class in Vermont. It was held on the last day of the class. It shows his red house which had a wonderful painting studio inside, it was near Peacham, Vermont.
Greek Orthodox Church in the Snow, February 2017
I painted this in the snow in February (2017). It shows the Greek Orthodox Church near McCarren Park in Greenpoint which is not far from where I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The dome was recently restored so it no longer is green from the copper oxidization but is now the original copper color. However, hard […]
Indian Hunter, 2017
Well this painting combines two things that I love: painting in the snow and the first statue installed in Central Park after the park was created. Keyword there is after as Bethesda Fountain was there already part of the original design of the park. The sculpture is by John Quincy Adams Ward who considered it […]
Anza and Collins
I painted this last summer in San Francisco. The location is reflected by the name of the streets in the title. There is a large hill (known as Lone Mountain) in view to the left background behind the row of houses which is too steep for traffic. Upon that hill is a group of building […]
How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art
The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century. Source: How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art