Central Park Gazebo

This was painted plein air from a Central Park gazebo which is perched on a rocky knoll  just off Sixth Ave. looking east.

Rudy Calao and Rockport

Rudy Calao and Rockport

Painter and friend, Rudy Calao was kind enough to let me bring a group of students into his studio in June of 2011 and these are a few pictures I took of the event along with a little video.

Rudy passed In October of 2014 and we shall all miss him.

Robert Holden has an excellent blog entry about Rudy and it is highly recommended.

Find it here: http://paintinglifestories.blogspot.com/2016/01/rudys-legacy.html

Rudolph N. “Rudy” Colao’s life and career are lovingly recounted in an obituary published in the Gloucester Daily Times on Oct. 11, 2014, which can be read online. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/obituaries/rudolph-n-colao/article_b28e8ad5-19f9-5b7c-9f77-c308f7be91be.html

Art Students League Interiors

Here are some more paintings of interiors at the Art Students League of New York

 This is a view of the prop closet in studio seven, up on the fourth floor of the league.

Presiding over everything is the Donatello David.

In the back of the studio were painting racks and lockers and every so often an intrepid artist that would defiantly stake claim to a spot in the dim light and wrest a masterpiece out of thin air. 

There was a time when the light on the third and fourth floors of the League was glorious almost spiritual.

Art Students League Studio Scenes

Art Students League Studio Interiors

Walter Mosley under the Pitti Tondo in Studio Seven

Ucchia carving at the League

In the Clay Studios-Art Students League

Sketches of Frank Mason landscape painting class in Stowe,Vermont

More sketches from my time with Frank Mason in Vermont - these in Harry Burnham's barn for the weekly Saturday critique of the week's paintings.

It was chilly that day in June

Art Society of Kingston

Art Society of Kingston's

curated exhibition

Being Human

http://www.askforarts.org/

http://www.rollmagazine.com/being-human-in-june/

My painting of "Jennifer " sold last night at the opening of  the Art Society of Kingston's curated exhibition "Being Human" .

New Figure Drawings October 2013

New Figure Drawings

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

Stowe Vermont Canoe Access

Here are a few paintings that I painted at the Canoe Access in Stowe Vermont. 

I attended the Frank Mason landscape class there every month of June during the late 1980's and 90's

and have painted numerous scenes all around northern Vermont.

More Art Students League Interiors

I painted a bunch of these during my time at the League

Corners of the Atelier in Studio Seven.

Here's a view with Mason, his son Arden, and Amy Danielson.

A view with Mary Poerner painting the still life

A view from the back of the studio looking contra jour.

Walter Mosley under the Michaelangelo tondo painting the model.

Art Students League Studio Sketches

Here's a collection of paintings from the studios at the the Art Students League of New York.

A view of the prop closet and the Donatello in Studio Seven, Frank Mason's class

Studio Three next to the cafeteria in a Leffel workshop

I crawled up on the sill under the skylight in Studio Seven 

and painted this looking down on the class.

Two Quick Portraits in Oils

Two quick oil portraits- one where we are projecting red up lights from below simulating firelight.