Portrait Sketches at the South Street Gallery

Saturday December 19th South Street Gallery held another portrait event in their wonderful gallery. I painted along with Jane Flavell Collins and Vcevy Strekalovsky. Vcevy did pencil sketchs, Jane did pastel and charcoal and I did oils. We made a great team and had a very busy day with people coming in all day. I painted a total of eight portraits between 11 - 4pm.

Most of these portraits were painted within a 1/2 hour so they are just sketches and not formal portraits. You could have them framed at the gallery. These made wonderful Christmas presents for loved ones.

The pencil portait is of Jane by Vcevy, and the charcoal is by Jane. Great job guys!

I would love to do more of these!

Red Easel Online Magazine

I was chosen Artist of the Month for online magazine "Red Easel". This is a widely seen site used by many artists and collectors! I am so excited to be part of this incredible magazine!!! Go to www.redeasel.com to read all about it!

Things have really been going well with many sales and commissions. Looks like it's going to be a great holiday after all!

77th Annual Moonlight and Miracles

I was lucky to join fellow artists Jen Kelly, who put this event together, Diane Scott, Vincent Crotty and Karl Nestleberger at the Marriot Hotel in Quincy for the 77th Annual Moonlight and Miracles Gala to raise funds for cancer awareness. Jen had prints of our work made into cards to sell for this wonderful event. Tim Wakefield of the Red Sox and Lisa Hughes of WBZ News were the celebrities on hand to support the South Shore Hospital. Jerry Bennett and the Sultans of Swing was the band and they were incredible. The whole place was rocking! What a great time!

Art Exhibition in Abington

Sean Flood (www.seanfloodart.com) welcomed me to join his friends in an exhibition that included a great jazz band in her home town of Abington.

Friends from all over came to see this ecclectic group of artists. This was something you think you would find in the city yet it was less than 2 miles from my house on the fourth floor of an old warehouse. I sold my painting "Springtime at the Trinity". This was a great way to spend my birthday!!!

Got-Art? Opening Night

Thursday night was the opening for a wonderful show in Holliston, Ma by Got-Art? I was greeted by gallery director Julie Jenkins and her amazing energy in a wonderful historical barn lit up like a christmas tree. Many people came out to see the show with quite a few of them leaving with art in hand from this 4 day show.
I was really impressed with a young artist named Sean Flood who painted some great large cityscapes. Turns out he has a studio in Abington! Now how come I never heard of him before the show. I can't wait to see the work he produces as he matures!
There was food and music and great art to be had! I really enjoyed myself and felt grateful to had been invited to such an eclectic show

The Berkshires

I visited the Berkshires with my friend Sandra Pollock to paint and see the local museums. On our trip there, we decided to stop at the Hancock Shaker Village. I had never been there and was really impressed by the beauty there. The weather was perfect with big puffy clouds in the sky.

We spent the whole afternoon there and took many pictures. The light was incredible!

The next day, we found a beautiful natural wonder at the Natural Bridge State Park in North Adams. America's only white marble dam. The water carved the natural bridge and formed these beautiful formations in the rocks. Many names from years ago were carved into many of these!

After lunch, we visited the Clark Museum where many Homers, Sargents and Bouguereaus were. I was so impressed by the beauty and quality of their paintings. We stayed mesmerized for about 4 hours. I would definately go back. The Williams Art Center hosted a Prendergast exhibit. We made it there just in time to see it. I am not a watercolor person, but I loved his body of work.

The next day we got a painting in from the road behind our hotel. We decided to head home after that and try to find another painting spot. We made it to Historic Deerfield and decided to head home after that.

It was a really great week.

Plymouth Stroll

Sunday was Plymouth's Stroll. Art galleries and artists were strutting their stuff. I painted outside Class Arts and Antiques where I display a lot of my work. I painted with Bob Beaulieu and Mareen Brookfield. The weather was fantastic and we had a really great day.

Our hope was to bring attention to this new wonderful gallery. I sold a painting that day and one last week there. Please visit them if you are in the area.