Friday, April 25, 2014

COMING SOON!!!

Teaching art studio coming soon!  The following is a copy of my studio card.  I will be offering art lessons as well as workshops!  Take a look!


Wednesday, April 16, 2014

View From Loon Mountain

Winter is leaving and spring is here!  Here is one last snowy scene to wrap up winter.  This is one of the commissions I worked on this year.

"View From Loon Mountain"
Oils on canvas

Friday, April 4, 2014

Stop by and see us at the Danbury Farmers Market tomorrow, Sat. April 4th, from 9 am - 1pm. We will be selling prints, note cards, small paintings, and my new scrimshaw seashells.  See ya there!

"Birch Tree"
Watercolor on cold pressed watercolor paper

Something New!

I have been trying something new, scrimshaw on seashells.  For those of you who don't know what scrimshaw is, it is a form of art that sailors used to do on their time off at sea.  Apparently the name scrimshaw comes from a word that means a "waste of ones time"... The ship captains did not see the value of this art form.  To me it is a very unique and challenging form of art not to mention fun.  Scrimshaw is done by scratching an image into the surface of the shell or bones etc.  Then filling the scratches with India Ink.  Here are the first few that I have done.