Storm King from Newburgh

Storm King from Newburgh

Watercolor Figures

The latest from Sundays at Woodstock.

These are watercolor figure paintings 18" x 24" and are all available.

Experimental Drawing and the Figure with Keith Gunderson

Experimental Drawing with the Figure at the Woodstock School of Art was held this week and it was a blast.

Participants prepared various papers with textures, imbuing them with powerful MetaData, all designed to enhance the figure within its figure frame reference. Exercises in rhythm gesture and scale were explored with rigorous techniques designed to enhance visualization. In addition, we explored the nature of how the brain processes visual information using cues and symbologies. Finally,  we explored how to construct a workflow that suits our individual expression. 

Apricots and Grapes

A little still life of fruit. I am very much thinking about how texture and metadata can portray light- the way light bounces and diffuses. As it diffuses it translates into a kind of noise or pixelation, much as the algorithms in Photoshop emulate these dynamics.

Flow

A charcoal and pastel drawing on blue Canson paper.

Winter Sycamores

Winter Sentinels is a painting that i made of a stand of Sycamores in a field near my house.

Portrait in Ink and Wash

A sepia ink and wash portrait of a man.

Twenty Knots

I painted this at the Rye Yacht Club during a day where the winds were gusting from 20 to 30 knots. I painted this from inside a boat house with the door open, otherwise, it would have been virtually impossible to paint in this kind of wind.

New York City Art Studio

A watercolor painting I made in the studio of my friend Janet , which occupied the front parlor of the top floor of a nineteenth century five story walkup on the corner of 55th Street and 8th Ave. Amazing light but also a real sense of New York City when the windows were open and you could feel the energy of the throngs of people and activity below. Yet on a still gray day it could be quiet and serene.

Ucchia Marini carving a block

This is a painting of my dear friend Ucchia Marini, who along with her husband Mark are carvers and make beautiful stone sculptures. I painted this from life in the sculpture studios of the Art Students League of New York.

Under the North Light

Here's a painting of the north light studio of studio seven at the Art Student's League of New York.

Poet "O" of Central Park

I was painting en Plein air one fall day in Central Park and ended up doing a scene near the bandshell. On this occasion, as I was painting, a homeless person ambled up to me with what I thought would be a request for money. Instead, this scruffy character recited a poem he had conjured that very moment in homage to all Plein air painters everywhere. I was flabbergasted! When you paint on the street in Manhattan you develop a bit of a thick skin as its hard to not be conspicuous with a tripod and a pochade in open view. My normal (cynical)reaction would be to
try to avoid this guy but to my amazement, he gave me a gift of great eloquence. As I would later find out this fellow held degrees from NYU but had crashed and burned along the way of life and here he was and there I was.

Old St. Patrick's Cathedral

​Here's a nocturne I painted of Old St. Patrick's church in Manhattan. I was standing on the corner of Prince and Lafayette and had a little thumb box with me - very stealthy.

In Central Park

A path in Central Park.. a moment in time that is captured by light and thought.

Giant Steps

I painted this scene on Bailey Island Maine at a place called Giant Steps. I painted from the same spot that Frederick Waugh used to paint from.

Easton Crape Myrtle

I painted this painting en plein air in Easton Maryland. The Crape Myrtle bush blooms in the late spring in Maryland and the color is brilliant, similar to Bouganvilla in intensity. Quinac Red Rose seems to be the only color that can do it justice.

Hudson River Sunset

This is an encaustic painting that I painted from an oil sketch. It is a scene of the Hudson river from the Bard College campus in Annandale, NY.

Everglades City Town Hall

A painting that I made plein air of city hall in Everglades City, Florida. Rapidly vanishing old Florida in the middle of the Everglades.

High and Dry

This is a painting I made plein air at the Conservancy of Southwest Flordia in Naples, Florida. Not far from the Carribean Gardens zoo, the conservancy occupies the Flieischman property which once was vast orange groves. As I was painting this scene I became lost in thought, as plein air painters often will, to be startled back into reality by the roaring of a lion. My first thought was that it must be a Florida panther and I kind of freaked. After a moment , I realized it was coming from the zoo, but the sound of the roaring lion carried through the orange groves and palms and really sounded like it was very close!

In the Barn

I painted this scene plein air in a barn near Yorktown, NY. The warm afternoon light silhouetted the cows' contra jour and this contrasted nicely with the cool light pouring into the barn from the east facing doors.