What a difference a week makes!
Amy drew her cat. It’s a lovely likeness of a cat in motion. Last week I challenged Amy Vail to let me teach her to draw, after she told me she “lacked the gene” to do it. Amy has never had a drawing lesson before. I want to show you her progress, because it’s amazing …
Top ten seascapes of all time!!!
A recent Guardian columnsought to identify the ten best sea pictures of all time. I propose an alternative list, not the “best”—because the idea of “top ten paintings” is in itself ridiculous—but ten equally brilliant and perhaps less famous seascapes, here presented in no particular order. (My apologies to Turner and Monet; I only omitted …
Painting and politicians
Winston Churchill, The Goldfish Pond at Chartwell, 1932. I think any artist would be proud to have painted this. When we were painting in Camden at my first workshop last month, an elderly gentleman asked Sandy if he could take her photo with her painting. “After all,” he said, “you could be the next Winston …
Mostly, what’s changed are the trees…
Safe Harbor, 20X24, oil on canvasboard, almost finished. I started this during the last year in which my painting partner Marilyn Feinberg was still in Rochester. It is as big a canvas—20X24—as I ever do en plein air. That size usually takes two or more sessions to finish, but without Marilyn around to schlep up …
A Sunday Afternoon on the Ontario Beach Park Jetty
Georges-Pierre Seurat, Un dimanche après-midi Ă l’ĂŽle de la Grande Jatte, 1884-1886 I have young nephews visiting. It seemed on this blistering hot day that a day at Ontario Beach Park would be a good way to burn off some of their energy. They went swimming and I sat in the shade sketching. As they …
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