On Tuesday of next week, Lone Pine Real Estate is having its long-awaited grand opening. It’s from 4-7, at 19 Elm St., Camden, ME. You’ll find me there, but not precisely at 4 PM, as I have a prior appointment. There are many forms of creativity, and I’m in awe of the kind of mind …
Spring Greens, 8X10, oil on archival canvasboard, $652 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. I’m prepping to teach my next session of Zoom color classes, Applied Color Theory, and consulting my library for ideas. Here are two color theory books I recommend without hesitation, and one I just ordered. After all, even an …
Creativity is unpredictable. Being a creative person means jumping head-first into the abyss of possibilities. How will your new work of art turn out? Will it make the viewer stop scrolling, even if just for a second? Will it prompt an emotional response? Will it make someone laugh, cry, think, or feel anything at all? …
Sea Street, 24X30, oil on canvas, private collection. I started writing this in the shade at the Camden Public Library, in the short interstice between delivering paintings and the start of this year’s Camden on Canvas auction. By the time you read this it will be all over but the shouting, but at that moment …
Daylilies and lace-cap hydrangea, 11X14, $869 includes shipping and handling in continental US. When Colin Page asked me if I’d paint for the 76th annual Camden Garden Tour, I said, “sure, why not?” Don’t ever tell him I said this, but Colin is such a nice guy that he makes one want to do nice …
The Turner Prize-winning artist on politics, music and his film Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992, now showing at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition. Jeremy Deller has interrogated and framed art, music and politics through his work as a producer, publisher, filmmaker, collaborator and archivist for the last three decades. The London-born …
American Eagle, painted from the deck during one of my schooner watercolor workshops. For a certified geriatric, I’m pretty good at the internet, but it is demanding. There’s a constant encroachment of synthetic experience, in the form of AI and enhanced photographs. There are scammers. Moreover, I feel obliged to read the news, which has …
Slightly more obtuse than 90°, almost exactly 90°, more acute than 90°. It’s far easier to see when you can compare it to accurate reference (and no, you don’t have to know those terms). During last week’s workshop, Beth, Sharon and I were looking at a house on Pearl Street in Camden. I’d given them …
Bonnie watercoloring on Pearl Street in Camden. I’ve been teaching a plein air workshop this week, and the air is unusually hot and heavy for Maine. Being a lifelong resident of the northeast, I don’t like heat and humidity. In addition, I promised my students from Virginia that it would be cool here, and Mother …
Prom Shoes 1, 6X8, oil on archival canvasboard, $435. I own one skirt and one dress, but I must combine painting and public events over the next ten days. I Googled what to wear to an art show to give myself ideas. The consensus was: Men should wear a blazer or sport coat, dress shirt, …