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On leaving Ateliers, having a career, and other lighthearted concepts
(Alternative title for this blog post: warnings for art students) (alternative, alternative title: does anyone have a time machine?) (the most alternative title: requiem for the talented) Recently...
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Studio Talk 3.5: Motyka Art & Frame in Rhode Island
In an entirely different fashion than the other entries in our series of studio talks, this was neither a lecture, nor was it in the evening. It wasn’t even in Massachusetts. It was, however, very...
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Teresa Oaxaca’s Alla Prima Portrait,
Early this month Teresa Oaxaca came through Boston again for another crack at her one-shot portrait painting class, which these days everyone calls ‘alla prima’. As far as I can tell calling one...
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Stephen Chow, patronage and a modern approach to collecting art
You could spend $1 billion and have a terrible collection. You could spend $500 and have museum-quality. The quality of your choices makes all the difference. a map of all the art projects Stephen Chow...
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Analyzing Paintings, an Exercise
Although my paintings are representational, the concepts in them aren’t necessarily married to representation. Basically, I just want them to look good. The aesthetic ideas behind them should hold true...
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Starting a Painting
I’m considering using this blog in a different way- I am not entirely sure how many people are checking in on this regularly but it seems a good a place as any to put my thoughts. A student last week...
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Studio Talk 3.0- Russian 20th Century Painting with Viktor Butko
Last month we had the third edition of our evening Studio Talk series- on 20th Century Russian painting with my friend and neighbor, Viktor Butko. Viktor has an illustrious family. He is married to...
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Hemp- First time for everything
Here’s a recent painting, just finished and signed the other day. Its from a trip last fall up to Vermont- this one from Sheldon, close to the border with Quebec. I’ve been thwacking away at this...
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The Studio Landscape with Marc Dalessio, April 2019
This April my friend Marc Dalessio and I for the first time ran a course through the studio that we have been talking about for some years now: painting landscapes indoors. The vast majority of...
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Ben Fenske Figure Class, April 2019
Earlier this month the illustrious Ben Fenske was back for one of his figure construction courses. As usual, it was an absolute torrent of information. I have a student in class here today with...
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Studio Talk Two, Winter 2019 – TM Nicholas and Stapleton Kearns
On March 1st I hosted the second installment in our Studio Talk series. For this event I invited Thomas M Nicholas and Stapleton Kearns to the studio to talk about some of their favorite highlights...
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Studio Talk One, Winter 2019- Elizabeth Ives Hunter
This winter brought a new thing to the studio- I began opening up to the public in the evenings for a series of lectures and discussions. I had been thinking about doing this for some time: to...
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Jesus Villarreal figure class, February 2019
At the end of February I had the pleasure of hosting Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal in the studio for a workshop focused on painting the figure from life- and an extended visit with an old friend. ‘oskar’...
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Materials Class at Atelier Flowerfield, February 2019
This blog post is coming a couple weeks late- been busy at home with family, our daughter decided to come early. I expected my winter to be intense, but its been a bit more than that. In any case I...
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Recent Commission
Recent brother and sisters portrait commission- partially done as a fundraiser donation for my son’s school. Three portraits are a lot more involved than one, and this went through a few...
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Materials Class, Fall 2018
Here’s some nice images from the latest edition of the traditional painting materials class in the studio. Just got back in from a super intense work trip in southern California, and getting caught...
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Ben Fenske’s Portrait in Oils, September 2018
This September, once again we were lucky enough to have studio regular Ben Fenske back to teach. The past few years, Ben has been focusing on construction-based courses when he teaches at the studio....
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Marc Dalessio, New England Landscape July 2018
Last week we wrapped up another course with fabulous globetrotting painter, Marc Dalessio. It’s always a lot of fun having him here, and the students were super enthusiastic. We had a great four days...
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BostonVoyager Interview
Click here to read another recent interview I did, this one with BostonVoyager. As I was writing two interviews contemporaneously I tried to talk about entirely different topics than my other recent...
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Summer Landscape Courses, On Demos
I’ve taught two landscape workshops over the past couple of months- one in Boston, at the Arnold Arboretum (just a mile or so from my house, may have been my shortest commute since Florence) and...
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