10 Jun 2015 Windy Mowing Artist Residents
I'm happy to announce the 5 Fellows who have been selected for a 2015 Windy Mowing Residency. Each Fellow will spend 2 weeks in Halifax, Vermont creating work in their...
05 Mar 200 YEAR OLD TIME CAPSULE AND HOT WATER TANK
I was an ecstatic eleven year-old boy who had found my Spanish Main. On my knees I started clawing into a sloping embankment packed with a century-old dump. I dug...
06 Feb A Thousand Buildings Burned
A thousand buildings burned in February of 1904 when a great fire devastated the heart of Baltimore's financial district. Pictorially this historic conflagration provoked my imagination in a major way...
09 Feb Forester Blue and Friendly Broom Head
I just spied a full white moon rising below my tall house. I turned the lights off so I could better appreciate its luminous company the most comforting I have...
03 Feb Immense AoA Gratitude
I remade my proposal sketch for Marriage : American Split four times in preparation for last Fridays final oral presentation for AoA in Montpelier and it is still very...
26 Jan Harvey Milk Recruited Me
Last Friday, after running some errands in Northampton, Massachusetts, I discovered that I was an hour away from the showing of Milk at the Pleasant Street Theatre. In November of...
23 Jan A Halifax Prima Donna and Theodore Dreiser’s Lover
Yesterday afternoon, I scheduled a portrait session with Dorothy Christie, who reluctantly agreed to sit for me. She kept insisting that there were others better suited for sketching as, she...
20 Jan Andrew Wyeth’s Passing & N.C. Wyeth’s Demijohn
I was profoundly impacted when I learned of Andrew Wyeth’s passing at the end of last week. He was a major influence on my artistic interests, especially as a...
16 Jan A Portrait of a Fifth-Generation Logging Brother
Aarin and Sean Dupuis are brothers from a family of fifth-generation loggers. For several months, they will be cutting trees below my house. Before sunrise, I see them drive by...
14 Jan Hind Paws Spinning & The Shih Tzus of Rubber Lips
I remade (for the second time this week) a drawing for the Art of Action, Schools: Inside Roof Trusses. A figure is prominently featured in this composition, and it took...