Oil Painting – The Tavern Project Part 3

More on those panels! Slowly (and yet as fast as possible) I kept working on areas until they reached a more finished stage. I constantly had to keep thinking about the “white” areas of the lit forms- like you would in a watercolor painting and then slowly...

Oil Painting – The Tavern Project Part 2

This week I will take you through the stages that the paintings went through for the restaurant project that was discussed last week. So since these panels were so big- 22″ x 42″ each, they had to go on my drafting table so I could work on them...

Oil Painting – The Tavern Project Part 1

I recently found myself painting in oils for a new Restaurant… The restaurant is called the Sewickley Tavern in the town of Sewickley that I live in near Pittsburgh, PA and I am so happy to have been part of this project. It is a rare and wonderful thing that a...

Shooting Stars, a Deserted Island and Pirate Booty

Over the holidays I was lucky enough to spend a few weeks in the Caribbean with my daughters’s boyfriend’s family who live in Antigua so I got to be surrounded by all three of my kids in 80 degree weather. On New Year’s Day we heard about a meteor shower...

2019

My easel broke. Yes, my easel is broken. I guess it makes sense. It is the end of 2019 and exactly ten years ago I had written across the top of it in Sharpie this very year- 2019. You may remember that I wrote in a blog about how these numbers on my easel have acted...