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Painting on the Move
*disclaimer* This post will only be interesting to you if you’ve tried to travel with your painting gear and/or like to paint outside. Or are interested in that sort of thing. Packing your painting...
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Winter Painting
You may have heard, the Boston area is getting much more snow than usual this year. The constant school closures, utter failure of MBTA service and occasional no-driving advisories from the Governor...
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Materials Class in Sweden
I spent a few days teaching at the end of last month at The Florence Academy of Art’s branch in Gothenburg- one of the most comprehensive materials workshops I’ve done to date. These students...
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Solo Show at Sloane Merrill Gallery
This coming Friday, April 24th, I have a show opening at Sloane Merrill Gallery here in Boston. It’ll be a mix of work on view-some local paintings of New England, a few of the snowscapes from this...
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The Giust Gallery (Caproni Collection)
“The quality of a reproduction is of the greatest importance. In an original work of merit there is a subtleness of treatment- a certain feeling which, if captured in reproduction, places the finished...
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Upcoming Landscape Workshops
I have two upcoming courses in Landscape Painting- Boston– June 26-28th Click here for information about a course I’m teaching in Boston. This class is organized by the Academy of Realist Art Boston,...
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Thoughts, and a visit to an exhibition.
I’ve written before about what I think is one of the larger issues affecting the current ‘traditional’, ‘representational’, ‘classical realist’ or whatever you want to call it movement: the utter...
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A couple of Paintings
View from the Mill, 28×36″ 2013 Often, I don’t get a chance to properly photograph paintings until they’re leaving the studio. I have a toddler, and his schedule trumps mine- when I get to the...
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Demonstration at the MFA Boston
On two Sundays in October I will running a class and artist demonstration at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston- I was asked to coincide my talk and demo with their upcoming superstar show, ‘Class...
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NBMAA Acquisition, Cape Sounio
Received news today that my 2011 studio painting ‘Poseidon’s Temple at Sounio’ has been acquired by the New Britain Museum of American Art for their permanent collection. The New Britain is one of the...
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Ongoing Guest Workshops in Boston
This week, 32 students (and one small dog) have converged on my studio to study with our first round of guest instructors- Ben Fenske and Marc Dalessio. The classes are still going on, and I will do a...
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Nova Scotia’s South Shore
Backlit Docks in Blue Rocks 12×16″ Before being in Boston and organizing the smattering of courses, open studios and dinner parties of the past week, I spent a fun half-relaxed work trip in Nova...
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August 2015 Workshops
The end of August was action packed here in the studio in Waltham. After we spent time painting together in Maine and Canada, Marc Dalessio and Ben Fenske came down to Boston to teach 3 workshops;...
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Thoughts on Process
As an artist, being an armchair art historian has become sort of a hobby. A couple of weeks ago in the studio I had a long conversation with a group of students about how to go about making a finished...
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Stapleton Kearns Demonstration
This past weekend, Stapleton Kearns was kind enough to do a long talk and seascape demo for a crowd of some thirty-odd guests in my studio. Having seen a couple of his talks, I was very happy when...
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That Whole Photography Discussion
I will probably regret opening this can of worms. Anders Zorn, inventor of the ‘selfie’ Easily one of the most common issues of contention in schools of representational painting is the use of...
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Teresa Oaxaca Class
I’ve had the pleasure of having Teresa Oaxaca sharing my studio for the past few days- she is running a charcoal drawing workshop out of my space while she is here. It’s her first trip to Boston,...
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Fall Materials Course
2 weekends ago I had a small group of students here in the studio for one of my materials courses- having never done a materials course with less than 15-20 students I was slightly concerned we...
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Ben Fenske Demo, Halloween 2015
This past Saturday I hosted a painting demonstration by Ben Fenske in the studio. We hired a model, and Ben talked through how he approaches a figure painting as he worked for ~2.5 hours. Like our...
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Stapleton Kearns Class, November 2015
Last weekend I had the pleasure of hosting a workshop for Stapleton Kearns, who over the course of the past 40ish years has made his name very well known and respected in the American painting...
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