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Category Archives: Paintings
Highly Recommended: Brushstrokes: Every Picture Tells A Story
A Terrific 4 part series for art history enthusiasts, hosted by the enthusiastic and compelling Waldemar Januszczak. Not what you’d expect an art historian to sound or look like, more Bob Hoskins than Colin Firth. Mr. Januszczak investigates a single … Continue reading
Waltham Artists Open Studios – Nov 2 & 3
Please join me for the 58th Annual Waltham Open Studios! https://www.walthamopenstudios.org/
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For the Love of Painting
I get bored with going through the work on a painting if I’m not painting for the love of it. That sentence contains two motivations for creative work: boredom and love. Making art for the love of it is really … Continue reading
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A Change of Style Update
A funny thing happened after that flurry of exciting new paintings that I wrote about in the previous post. In that post I was wondering if they were heralding a change in style or were just “one-off” paintings. I tried … Continue reading
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A change of style or a one-off?
I’ve been doing most of my painting as demonstrations in teaching my painting classes, and in spite of all my good intentions I finish few of them at home in the studio. In part because I hear the teacher in … Continue reading
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Summer 2024
I will also be teaching a few classes at the New Art Centerin Newton. There will be two Zoom classes: beginning painting on Monday morning and Painting Intensive on Friday morning. Although the title for Monday’s class is “Foundations for … Continue reading
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Untitled
I gave a class assignment this week to paint this: So I then did this: And this: I cut out the shapes in order to see them as themselves, independent of the rest of the image. Especially the leaves, which … Continue reading
A brief explanation of summer classes 2023
Today I received a request for what my painting classes are like, and here is my reply: In the painting classes I teach, both in my studio and on Zoom, we paint from still-lifes and photographs, including the human figure. … Continue reading
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Landscape Painting Classes
Take a painting class for fun and help support the New Art Center in Newtonville! This summer I’ll be teaching a landscape painting class in acrylic and oil paints on Tuesday mornings, 9:30 – 12:30. We’ll be outdoors as … Continue reading
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Summer 2023 Painting Classes
I’m offering 2 summer painting classes this summer, beginning June 14 through August 4. Classes will meet from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Wednesdays classes will be at my studio in Waltham and Friday mornings will be on Zoom. … Continue reading
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