2016 Italy Landscape #3

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day...SOLD!!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 4/9 the price goes to $275

Back to painting Italy.  This was a little village in the Crete Senesi
area.  The dappled light left hot sun spots.  But that beautiful
blue door...

We took down the exhibit at RLPS Architects and actually sold
five prints.  We may have another exhibit planned there and
possibly spend a day painting.  They have a fantastic building
and work enviornment.   I painted all day and then off to track
practice, not the best weather!

2016 Still Life #8

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day...
SOLD!

This is my daughters kitchen window in Washington DC.  She
has this very tall narrow window with her favorite vase and a
fern.  Its the light coming in that creates interest.  I keep
saying, there are scenes everywhere you look just screaming
to be a painting... look around.  Even if you are not an
artist, slow down and look around you!

Checking in

My painting today is only 1/2 finished!  I started on time.
Then our friend Joan came for a visit and I drove the
girls for ice cream and Joan wanted to look at our new
55+ community.  By the time I got home it was time to
leave for track practice.  Till I got home, dried off, and
warmed up I do not have enough time to finish.  I
promise it will be done tomorrow and look great.  So
 instead of a painting today I will share  a fellow artists
article.  The Art of being an Art Collector.
Go read it and come back...

Well written and made me stop and think about my
own path as a painter and how connected I am to my
clients. I paint what I love, things I have seen, places I
have visited.  I think when you get to know me, visit the
studio/house and see how I live you have a greater
understanding of who I am and how I connect with my
world.   That comes out in my paintings.   I am not
doing the salesman thing and my path has not been all
about selling and money.  The sales happen naturally
when I and my paintings connect with people.  I want
my clients to fall in love with my subjects, to find a
calm peacefulness in them and to share my view and
to feel connected to the subject. I  prefer to build a
relationship with my clients, they have invested in my
paintings but also in me as an artist and person.  I don't
care if its a $35 mini print or a $6000 original, I am
counting on a connection, I want it to mean something
to that buyer.  They become my collectors and I know
they will be back for more!

2016 Still Life #7

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day...SOLD!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 4/2 the price goes to $250

I get asked all the time about where I find inspiration.
I try to explain it is everywhere.  You just have to look.
This wonderful still life was from a friends house.
We were there for Easter dinner and she had these
daffodils; I liked the vase.  Just a perfect, yet simple still life.

I had my last class today.  Said good bye to some very nice
ladies all who plan to be back in September.  Linda had the
tables and chairs down as the door was closing behind them.
She reminded me that we have not had use of the two rooms
for six months...  I felt bad so I took her to
Rooster Street Butcher for lunch.

2016 French #5 ~ Window

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day... SOLD!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 4/1 the price goes to $275

I am still painting St. Emilion, France.  This one had a little
extra in the window!

This is my last week of teaching watercolor until September.
Its my 3rd week of track and meets start this week.  Linda
is getting some garden time and all is well...

2016 French #4 ~ window

5"x 5"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day... SOLD!!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 3/31 the price goes to $275

St. Emilion  again,  an interesting window.They love their flowers.

We had a nice Easter in DC with Abbey and Ben.
Got to see the cherry blossoms. Way too crowded!
Came home Sunday and had dinner with friends.
My buddy Bruce is in town and he happened to bring
his bike so we went out in the unbelievable wind today.
A much harder workout  than it should have been.

2016 Negril

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day... SOLD!!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 3/28 the price goes to $250

I went in a totally different direction!  My class wanted to
see water being painted so this started as a demonstration.
This is a photo  my daughter took at the Rock House hotel
in Negril, Jamaica.  I could handle sitting in these chairs
today!  

A good deal of my morning was spent car shopping with my
father-in-law...  The light rain messed with my bike riding
plans so I am painting.

2016 French #3 ~ doorway

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day... SOLD!!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 3/27 the price goes to $275

Another St. Emilion  painting, this one I found while taking a tour.Loved the way the light danced on the wall.

Another class to teach this morning, I have 3 ladies that drive
from NJ  and 3 that drive from Coatesville, PA.  That's a lot
of driving for a class.  Painted, then ran a few errands with Linda
then off to a track scrimmage...

2016 French Window #2

4"x 6"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day    ~ SOLD!!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 3/26 the price goes to $300

I have been going through my photos from a trip to France
several years ago and fell in love all over again.  I am focussing
on the St. Emilion area.  I found this scene at a winery, the window
was part of a large painting I did a while back.  I wanted to
do a close up of the window with the shadows.

Today was a rerun of yesterday, taught a full class, painted,
track practice, back to painting...

2016 Still Life #6

6"x 4"  Original Watercolor ~ A Painting A Day  ~ SOLD!
Only $125 (unframed) to the first person to email or call!
If unclaimed by 3/25 the price goes to $250

Glass study in shades of blue.

Teaching my easy advanced class, painting and track...
then grocery store and more painting... that's my day!