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Categories: landscape, painting, summer paintingTags: en plein air, linwood gardens, paining, paining outdoors, painting en plein air, summer paining, watercolor
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Summer Painting
Summer painting
Linwood remains a creative sanctuary for me, but I still like to make things in my studio! The weather is a factor, Rochester weather is to varied! It keeps me on my toes.
Park Avenue Poster Commission
It took several months to arrive at the final image, but it was a good project. This kind of commission is very challenging, and took me out of my comfort zone. I became interested in Victorian houses, and the beauty of the neighborhood setting, like never before.
Lake Garda, Italy, the view from my room started in 2006, and finally finished!
Another watercolor from yesterday, just could not paint today after working the local arts festival! This was from yesterday’s session which was fruitful.
Round Pond
Painted at Mendon Ponds today, in 90 degree heat. I sat on the best situated bench in the whole park. After I settled in, doesn’t somebody show up. It always happens that way, an approaching stranger with a curiosity. But his was different. This man, most likely in his eighties, informed me that the bench I was sitting in was the bench he installed as a tribute to his son, who passed away in 2008. His name was Scott T. Grumble, born in 1958. I was dumbstruck saddened by this, and came to tears. Then he told a couple jokes, and made me laugh.
Painting Every Day
This begins the cycle of summers decline, September. As the heat rises it could be another glorious summer month. Having accepted a painting-a-day discipline, along with hundreds of other artists nationwide, I expect to be working outdoors and hope for less rain and fewer bugs. Think David Hockney.
Oil painting of Linwood Gardens in the Fingerlakes exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery
This painting doesn’t look as good as the photograph, I fear. I like the composition and think it would make a good woodcut!
