Happy New year

Wishing you all a happy and creative New Year!  

I'm teaching a two day work shop

and a five week
"Intuitive Painting"
class at North River Arts Society 

in January.

It would be a great way to kick off 2018!

"This class is designed for the painter who is interested in creating 

more intuitive, bold, and exciting paintings. 

We will learn how to take a less representational, analytical approach to painting

 by allowing our intuition to lead us.

 Each week we will challenge ourselves to “think less and do more!” 

Through a series of quick, fun exercises, we will learn 

how to use color, shape, space, and line 

to express an idea or statement. 

We will be working from still life and/or photos 

and all painting mediums are welcome.

 Cut paper collage will be introduced along the way. 

Materials list to follow. "

Click HERE for more information. 

There a few spots open! 

Abstract "Postcards"

I recently watched a demo by Jane Davies

 on YouTube where she made "abstract postcards" 

 by collaging different papers, crayons, etc. 

on a 8 1/2  x 11 sheet of media board.

Then she cuts them in fours to get a wonderful 

mix of patterns and textures. 

I ended up doing four of them in different colors

and had them framed together. 

(Sorry for the glare. 

I didn't photo them before having them framed!)  

I loved them so much, I kept them

 and hung them in our sitting room! 

Making It Up

In my quest to become "less literal"
I am learning to make things up.  

Here, I made up the figure first,
then chose a composition that would
move the eye around the painting 

using color temperature. 

Night Beach 

20 x 16 

oil 

Letting the colors and shapes tell the story.

Fun!  

Featured Artist at J Crew

I am going to be the "featured Artist" 

at the Derby Street J Crew this Friday 

from 10 - 2. 

Please come by if you're in the area! 

"End of Season"

16 x 20 oil 

I'll be featuring a few larger oil paintings

and many affordable 

Mini- Collages

3 x 3 matted and framed 

to 8 x 8 

Using Color Temperature

Working on the 

"Push/Pull" of using colors. 

warm /cool 

light /dark 

intense /dull 

a la Hans Hoffman. 

I painted over this painting 

that had been hanging around the studio for weeks. 

Now I wish I had kept the original! 

Oh well. A good lesson.

NOTE: 

Here are some I Pad 

experiments I did during the process. 

Collage Informs Painting

Working with cut paper collage
let's me play with color and design.
In many ways,
I think it is beginning to inform my paintings.
It's a great way to simplify.

Gordon's Pond 

9 x 10 

collage 

NOTE: 

I went to an wonderful demo by

 Suzanne Siegle

  at Concord Art this week.

She showed us many different ways to 

"paint" papers for use in collage.  

 I was enthralled. 

She showed us how to make "stamps" 

using adhesive craft foam 

attached to foam board. 

Oh boy. 

There is no end to what you can do with it!