Daily Painting

Painting #395, scrape down.

6"x6", oil on panel.  I photographed this one at three stages; the first pass at the bottom, scraped down with a pallet knife in the middle and then the final at the top.  Scraping a painting down is very satisfying.  At first students are terrified but then discover it creates possibility.  (Available here.)

Painting #394, green light.

 
Sketchbook watercolor.  (From Hope St. looking westward down Doyle Ave..)  Its very beautiful here in Providence today.  

Painting #393, fruit?

So these are rose hips.  I was just informed by my friend Rebecca.  They are so strange and wonderful.  Big ocean, rocky shore, bushy roses and these weird fecund looking fruits.  Is it foolish of me to remark that the natural world is beyond imagining?  Watercolor pencil and pen on paper (available here).

Painting #392.

8"x11", oil and pencil on panel.  Looking toward Providence from underneath highway 195, near the Community Boating Center at India Point Park.  (Available through Buonaccorsi+Agniel.)

Visit to New York.

(4"x5"ish, watercolor, pencil and pen on paper.)

 (8"x11", oil on panel, available here.)
I got to spend a day in new york!  First I picked up a painting of Michael's from Flowers Gallery in Chelsea.  Then I took a walk on the celebrated High Line, really great (though incidentally I got more bug bites in three blocks than on my entire trip to Maine.)  I mooned over the stunning collection at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (my first trip, thank's for the tip Colette!) and bough a copy of "Worlds of Transformation: The Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion" on sale for $20!!.  Afterwards I traveled to Brooklyn for a visit with my friend Debra.  On the way home I stopped on Atlantic Avenue to peruse the nifty furniture shops.  10 minutes before closing I sumbled upon Layla, a beautifully curated shop where I did not even bother to ask the cost of a throw pillow but simply to take its photo; the shopkeepers cheerfully obliged and that accounts for the first furry flower watercolor. (8"x10", acrylic on canvas panel.)

  (4"x8", watercolor, pencil and pen on paper.)
 A little fantasy watercolor inspired by The Rubin, my conglomerate wrathfull goddess.  (4"x6"watercolor, pencil and pen on paper.)

Maine Sketchbook.

Some watercolor sketches from Boothbay Harbor.  We stayed on a quiet little lake here.

Painting # 382.

We are off to vacation in Maine!

Painting #381, for Elyse.

Friday I got together with Elyse of cottage.   We exchanged pretty stuff and excited conversation at 7 Stars on broadway.  Here's our joint effort, a give-a-way.  Thanks Elyse!

Painting #380.

From a photo I took wednesday on the East Bay Bike Path.  8"x11", oil on panel.

Painting #379, Majorelle gardens in Marrakesh.

8"x10", watercolor, pencil and pen on paper.  A print is available here.