Santa and the Supply Chain

I heard that Santa has a supply chain problem this year, which is making it tough to find Christmas gifts. Local artists are not stuck on cargo ships waiting to be unloaded. Paintings, a calendar, or sculptures created by someone in your community make lovely gifts and shopping in local galleries or the basement studios of neighborhood artists is a treat.

I am getting out of the photography business. I will no longer makes print on request and my entire, small inventory of framed prints is heavily discounted.

I also have some inexpensive colored pencil mandalas and, of course, there are always the oil paintings.

You can see images of what I have available on this website. Even better, come on over so you can see how beautiful everything is when it is framed and ready to hang on the wall.

Summer's End

Apples, after Peter Poskas

Two new oil paintings, one from mid-summer, the other the fall apple harvest.

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Who Doesn't Love a Summer Flower Garden?

Isn’t the color of these peonies wonderful? This just finished today, it will go in a show for sale next weekend.

The show is at the Christopher Farm and Gardens in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on Saturday, August 21, rain date Sunday, August 22. I will be there with all the other painters at 8:00 in the morning. You can sleep in and show up later in the day to visit the gardens, watch and meet the painters, and browse the indoor painting sale.

The gardens are not generally open to the public so this is a great opportunity to see them. Five hundred acres along a mile of Lake Michigan shoreline with 17 themed botanic gardens including an Asian Water Garden, a Cut Flower Garden, and a Conifer Specimen Garden. There is also a Peony Garden but those will be out of bloom by now so stop by the indoor sale to see my Peony painting.

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An Artist's Studio

In early June I spent a week in Door County walking in the parks, visiting art galleries, and painting. This is my painting of the cottage that I stayed in, named The Studio, because it was formerly an artist’s studio. It’s the first painting I have finished that I started plein air. I’m finding that it’s not the composition, as I had supposed, so much as the colors that are the challenge of painting from life.

By the way, did you notice how the cottage leans slightly to the left? So do I: I hold my head tilted to the left. That means my eyes are tilted slightly down to the left and, consequently, so are most of my painting. You just can’t help put a piece of yourself on the canvas. Now that you know you will start to see it all over my work.

While I was in Door County I visited a goat farm and dairy where I took almost 200 photos of baby goats only to find my camera card clean as whistle when I got home. I know I had them on there; I checked more than once. Clearly some gremlin got ahold of my camera and wiped the card clean. Ah, well. No goat paintings this year but I’ve got another chicken and one of a barn in the early morning light. You can see them both on the Oil Painting tab.

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