Life Class

A few drawings from sketch class recently.

New Figure Drawings October 2013

New Figure Drawings

Rye Art Center Paint Out

Painters on Location and Art Auction

September 28th 2013

My Painting "Rye Sunset and Kirby Lane" is featured on the promotional

material for this event. I will also be participating in this annual plein air event.

nice poster but a little weirdness going on with the photoshop treatment

the original painting

Pastel Plein Air

Painted this week in New Paltz.

I can get a lot of info into a shorter painting session with pastels. I don't have to work so hard a edge detailing -where I would have to be very focused with palette knife work and the edges of fan brushes to get the delicate lines that I can achieve with a single drawn stroke of a hard pastel stick.

Huguenot Street in New Paltz.

From Sketch class

A few from this week.

Pregnant Anne

One of our favs- the lovely Anne and newly pregnant.

these are one minute warm ups.

More Figure Drawings

Doing my best to draw every day.
On grey Canson, Pan Pastel, NuPastel chalks, and Winsor Newton willow charcoal

on Reeves BFK with Pan Pastel ground,NuPastel chalks.

Huguenot Street Plein Air

Huguenot STreet Day and the artists are out in force.

New Figure Sketch August 2013

A few from sketch class this week.

Coates Vine Charcoal and Ivory NuPastel ,on Canson Mi Tientes.

Sumi Brush watercolor figures

Done with Hake and Sumi brush along with  Reed Pen using Yasutomo Sumi black and vermillion ink
 on Canson Biggie Sketch
and Strathmore 400 18" x 24"

Unison Model gives concert while artists draw

We had a great treat at sketch class at Unison the other evening when Stuart arranged to have the model, who is also an accomplished cellist, perform a series of etudes and sonic inventions whilst the figure class drew the 25 minute poses.

Ssumi brush figure drawings

Here's a few brush drawings from last week....

Plein Air Morse Estate Locust Grove Poughkeepsie

Figure Sketch Last Week

Here's a few from the Unison sketch class

The Watercolor Figure

Watercolor in Sepia:  Sumi Brush and Reed Pen

Drawing Marathon

 Here's a bunch of 10 - 20 minute figure sketches from the recent drawing marathon at Unison in New Paltz.
We've organized a twelve hour marathon for July 22nd at the Woodstock School of Art. http://woodstockschoolofart.org/  10:00- 4:30PM (lunch included). A late night session afterwards for those who can't get enough-(like me).

Sketch Class Drawings

Here's a bunch of the latest , including some Sumi brush drawings with traditional black and vermillion ink

Cabin in the Woods

I painted this at my friends house in the northeast kingdom of Vermont in Barnet.

A beautiful early 18th century house in the woods with a room of antiques that resembles

 a mountain man's cabin in the woods, with all the accoutremonts of the time.

A special place I stayed at for a few weeks while they were away, only me, my paints, the dogs,a cat, a horse, and a ghost.

Art Along the Hudson

Here's my encaustic painting,Hudson Valley Sunset,

which is featured in the Art Along the Hudson exhibition and event

 on view at the Jacaruso Gallery in Rhinebeck, New York

From the Poughkeepsie Journal May 14, 2013

Falling Water State Park

The falls and the sinkhole gorge at Falling Water State Park
Falling Waters State Park is a 171-acre Florida state park located three miles south of Chipley, Washington County in northwestern Florida. The park contains a 73-foot waterfall, the highest in the state.