Reception this coming Thursday

If anyone is in the Duxbury area this Thursday (June 3) from 11 - 2 pm, stop by the new Duxbury Gallery at Halls Corner for a reception featuring a lot of my new work! It should be fun.

Garden Club Gift 

11 x 14 

SOLD!

NRAS Arts Festival This Weekend!

FYI! The North River Arts Society kicks off the annual arts festival this Friday night with a fun cocktail reception. (Click on Special Events)  Then all weekend there is music, lots of art, crafts, fun things for kids. A lot of members have painted mailboxes that will be for sale. I will be in the "Calendar" tent Saturday morning from 10:00 - NOON with my friend Franny Andahazy, as well as other artists whose work has been chosen for the 2011 NRAS calendar. Stop by and say hello! Those calendars make great gifts!  

"Group Hug"

9 x 12 

My painting for September 2011! 

This is the closest to being a "calendar girl" as I think I'll ever get. 

A Real Stand Out

Everyone who drives by this house overlooking the beach on Jerusalem Road in Cohasset can't help but notice it. It takes a lot of moxie to build a contemporary home in New England! They tend to stand out.

I painted this today from the, above mentioned, beach for my Challenge entry. It was our first real summer-like day so Nantasket Beach was not an option. That would have been nuts! We ended up at what I call "Rocky Beach" where we could park and be left alone. I spent 45 minutes on an uninspired seascape, wiped it off, then turned my easel around and did this. I'd love to meet the people that live in this house.     

To The Beach We Go

I took this image last summer and finally just got around to painting it. I'm warming up for our Girls Just Wanna Paint challenge this month - we have to do a plein air painting AT THE BEACH. I have trouble doing figures from life (they just don't stay in one place!) so mine will most likely be a landscape or will include buildings. Long stretches of sand and ocean don't really make exciting compositions to me. I'm feeling a trip to Nantasket Beach coming on. 

Boogie Boys

6 x 6 

Kelly Day

Today was "Kelly Day" I guess. I painted over at World's End in Hingham with two wonderful artist friends, Kelley MacDonald and Jen Kelly. Then tonight there is an opening reception at Oceanside 17 Gallery in Hull honoring my good friend Brooks Kelly's 75 birthday!

My two "Kelly Green" paintings below

 

I guess we should have had lunch at Kelly's Roast Beef. 

(That was Jen's line.) 

Garden Help

One of my friends brought her nieces to a Garden Club meeting recently. We were potting up plants for a Plant Sale, so she gave the girls buckets and shovels and some dirt to play with. It was so fun to watch them imitate everything we were doing. You've gotta love little girls.

 "Garden Help"

10 x 10 

Finally There

I've always said that sitting on the beach is my favorite sport. It usually takes a lot of work to get there but that moment, when you finally get settled in your chair and can "just do nothing", is sublime. In a few weeks we will all be getting lots of those moments, I hope!

"Finally There"

8 x 10