Friday, November 27, 2009

#1Marshall Cat Boat 8x12


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This was the first rendition of this boat. I like the 2nd one better, I think it's more alive. However the first one did sell. SOLD.

MARSHALL CAT BOAT 8x12


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I recently painted this from a photo I took at Mystic Seaport. This is the second time I painted this pretty boat. I did this one mostly with the pallet knife. I think pallet knife painters are happier people, cause' the devil is in the detail, and all you need are paper towels to clean with. The first cat boat I did sold at the Cahoon Museum Brush Off in Cotuit last summer. I painted that one with brushes.I will put that one up too.  SOLD.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

FRONT PORCH P-TOWN 5X7


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I took a photo of this scene a couple of years ago, but just painted it the other night.  SOLD.

THE MOORS P-TOWN 11x14


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I posted a looser version of this earlier, I tightened it up. Has anyone seen my putty knife? I painted this scene, which is at the end of town in P-town. SOLD.

TRURO COTTAGES 2 6x9


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About 6 or 7 years ago I was in The Judith Heller Gallery in P-town,and looking through her very cool gallery on the beach, I came across some paintings I liked very much. The artist was Mary Giammarino. You could tell she spent some time with Lois Griffel, many great artist went through the Cape Cod School of Art.I think a lot of their works look alike. I would have a hard time telling who did a particular painting but not so with Mary. You know her work when you see it. Warm and cool muted colors,great shadows next to blasts of sun light, large masses of colors with little detail. I wanted to learn how to paint something like that, to get looser. I tried to paint like that but, no dice. I knew she did work shops around the outer Cape, but the time never worked out for me to take one.  SOLD.
One late afternoon last summer,after dropping some of my paintings off for The Outer Cape Art Auction, I was leaving P-town when I saw a woman with a ball cap on painting on the side of Route 6. I'd had seen her on her web site so I was pretty sure it was Mary. I stopped my car in the shoulder of Route 6, and walked back towards her, with cars whizzing by, I walked up to her and said,"you must be Mary".I told her I have been trying to catch up to her for quite a while.I talked to her a while and asked if she had any time for some instruction. She responded, how about Sunday in Truro for some loose lessons?
I showed up on Sunday at High Head Rd. and Rt. 6 in Truro. There were 2 other women and me. Mary gave me a putty knife to paint with.If you paint with a putty knife you will be loose.
I have painted that cottage scene many times, many different ways. I liked the putty knife the best. I painted this one from a photo and used a pallet knife.
I got to paint a few more times with Mary , she's a very good teacher,and look forward to painting with her again and taking a work shop or 2 with her.

Brant Point Light 5x5


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I did this small painting a while ago. My style has changed a lot since then.I paint more impressionistic now, but still bounce around with my style.

a San Miguel Street, Mexico


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I did this painting from a photo I took while in Mexico last march. San Miguel photographs very well.

San Miguel rooster, 5x7


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This is a painting from a photo which I took during Frank Gardner's oil painting work shop last March,in San Miguel Allende, Mexico.If you ever get a chance to take one of his work shops, do it. Frank's a very good teacher, and he will help your painting. We painted at 3 GREAT LOCATIONS, and had 5 great lunches.I have to mention the food.
I never would have known about Frank Gardner or his work shop,had I not seen a little blurb in the paper, about 12 guys that had painted on Monhegan Island, and Port Clyde, Maine. The group was having a reception at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis Port. It was in the middle of winter,and I was looking for any excuse to get out of the house,and to have someone else's cheese and wine, along with viewing great paintings, and chatting with the artist, sounded like a real good deal.
I met Frank at the reception along with Jerome Greene, Colin Page, and 6 or 7 of the other artists. I was told that Frank lived in San Miguel, so I mentioned to him that i was in fact going to San Miguel in three weeks, for about 10 days. Frank told me he was having a 5 day work shop around the same time.He said it was full, but would call me if there was room. He found room and I went.Quite a coincidence. Jerome Greene also went. I visited with Jerome several times during the summer, and have stayed in touch with him. Jerome told me that he had just returned from San Miguel a few weeks ago. This time the group that painted in Maine, went down to San Miguel for 10 days and painted around there. He told me that Frank made arrangements for them to stay in a 20,000 sq. ft. mansion. Way to go Frank.
If you want to look at the stuff the guys did in Maine, I think you can find it through the Addison Gallery, in Orleans, ma. If you want to see some of the San Miguel trip., you can google Colin Pages blog.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

TRURO COTTAGES 2


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SOLD.

EAST END OF COMMERCIAL ST. P-TOWN


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I'm going to put up a few paintings, and then discuss them.