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  • Paintings from Pine Creek: Issue 1

    I have notions about what I ultimately hope I can achieve up here in the woodsy woods of north central Pennsylvania. But first come the “studies”. View of the Back Lawn, Cedar Pines, 12 x 16″, oil on Masonite, 2012 “Studies” for me are always begun on-site in some fashion (although I often don’t stick…

  • Summer: Faces

    JOU, Portrait 4, about 14 x 10″, charcoal and graphite, June 2012 I’ve been doodling my way through the summer, spending time until we begin our extended trip to the family homestead in the Appalachian mountains of northern Pennsylvania. The doodles (and doddles) included three review sessions with Jeff Burke. Jeff teaches The Fieldguide to…

  • Eastside Plating Works, Plant 5 (The Paintings)

    More than a month ago, I said I was almost finished with Plant 5. Well, time is as relative as other attributes of our world, so “almost” is tallied as a month’s further tweaking. Below are images of the final work. The titles and comments are meant to please all: Jan shouldn’t read them or…

  • The Garret, AKA the Mezzanine Level of Building C

    It’s been a long winter (and just because it’s May, it doesn’t mean the winter is truly over.) I spent most of my winter cooking, and if you are curious how someone who won’t/can’t/ doesn’t cook managed to do such a thing, check out recent posts on southeastmain. However, during the winter and early spring…

  • The Secondary Art Market? An artistic conundrum

    A few days ago I received an email from a client who bought one of my textile pieces, “After Great Pain” when it was exhibited in 1998 at the Japanese Gardens in Portland Oregon. The piece is large — 29″ high and 98″ wide. It had hung in the graduate school of the University of…

  • PSF Residency: Post 9 — More Manikins

    Friend Jane and I traveled down to the res to do a bit of drawing today. Beforehand I dawdled. I thought about calling and cancelling. I drank another cup of coffee. I looked at the flowering hellebore as I meandered down the street. In short, I didn’t want to go a-drawing. However, and per usual,…

  • PSF Residency: Posts 7 & 8 (Plant 5, panel studies 3 & 5)

    Two posts this evening because I failed to get to Friday’s events until now. So, two days down on the res…. Here are two paintings, one from Friday and the other from Sunday, now ensconced in my studio. Both were done at the Eastside Plating Plant, Building 5. Both were done plein air. On Friday…

  • PSF Residency: Post #6, Plant 5, again

    Yesterday (Thursday) was February Reprieve  –the sun shone in Portland Oregon, and I doggedly worked on Plant 5 again. JOU, Plant 5, panel 2, 16 x 12″, oil on masonite, 2012 Miscellaneous observations: The skateboarders were by and large absent, strange for such a nice day. Plant 5 lets out at 2:30 and the going-home…

  • PSF Residency: Post #5

    It’s Wednesday evening (Feb 1, 2012), and today I drew for the first time inside the warehouse at Portland Store Fixtures. It was good. Comfy quarters (warmth, light, pleasant music), the staff was altogether pleasant, and I had a drawing companion, comrade Jane, to buck me up and keep me from feeling too self-conscious. We…

  • PSF Residency: Post #4

    These posts come slow and slower. I hope not to have to record slowest. I spent one day down on the res last week. I did one plein air painting. The temperature hovered at about 44 degrees, but the sun mostly shone. In that plein air day, I began the study of the buildings that…