[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] I recently made a visit to the Book Mill in Montague, MA, where I discovered a variety of paintings by American artists, paintings that really struck me. Among them: - John Ferguson Weir, Forging The Shaft, at the Met -...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Although I've appreciated the phenomenal beauty resulting from an ice storm, after the fourth full day of being dislodged from my house and living out of my car (minus the sleeping, which is indoors), I have had moments...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] What a strange place to find myself, no? So, stirring in my sleep in the wee hours of the morning, I was quite accepting of the racket the ghosts were making in the north bedroom overhead. But as...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] How does unregulated zoning in a small rural town influence my painting ideas regarding the Art of Action? It is a complex issue, dealing with a prospective business that is promising local people jobs in a poor town,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Art of Action: Attempted my third version of American Marriage. Essentially, two sets of figures occupy the foreground; embracing nude women and the standing male wood splitters. It is a more fluid drawing, and the overall composition is...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I hope I am finally recovering from a forty-eight-hour flu which has gripped every aching corner of my body. All I could manage to do was to rest and sleep...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pale cold day...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday, I arranged to draw Laura Sumner, the Halifax Town Clerk, a post she has held for forty years, when Margaret Crosier recommended her to the post back in 1967. We were both quite nervous, because our previous...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Saturday the 29th of November was a bitter, cold day with low cloudcover, but the promise of a dramatic sunburst toward the end of the day. 3:15PM, the dogs and I decided to travel to Searsburg and investigate...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Autumn of 2008 has been a fruitful and productive time for David. He was recently commissioned by Johns Hopkins University to create a suite of paintings of historic Baltimore for their Carey Business School, slated to open...