A Still Life
Two peppers snagged from pizza-making, oil on canvas, 8X6 For several years I asked myself when would be a good time to take a sabbatical from career development, to focus only on painting. Economic malaise presents the perfect opportunity, so I took 2010 as a year to pursue intentional isolation. My plan was simple: no …
Five plein air sketches by a student and friend
Students do wonderful things. Here are five landscape paintings recently entered by Marilyn Feinberg in the GVPAP show at Barnes & Noble—all five were accepted. Expressway entrance at South Winton Road, about 12.5X10, oil. (These are not titles, but descriptions, since I don’t know the titles.) My backyard when the roses were in bloom, about …
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Merry Christmas!
My male friends can go back to alphabetizing their Beatles collection. My middle-aged women pals will recognize this as a bottle angel—what we were making while they were building forts and playing that ugly Danelectro guitar in the family room. She was made in 1968 or thereabouts, which is why she is wearing a chic …
Rained out!
I love October in the High Tor wildlife management area south of Canandaigua Lake. This area is full of deep ravines with waterfalls, such as this one: You can get some unusual fall colors there, such as these pink trees: But it is the muckland at the bottom of the lake, with its tawny reeds, …