Learning by Copying

In my class at the JCC Bayonne we are learning by copying. The students have chosen all different Master Portraits to copy. This is my finished demo. Thanks to the Staten Island Museum in 2011 I saw in person two paintings of children, a brother and sister by Late 19th-Early 20th cetntury Staten Island artist Adeline Albright Wigand. I immediately fell in love with them and have used them as inspiration in many of the commissioned children's portraits I have done recently.
I finally got the opportunity to copy one of them...even though I worked from a terrible photo I took of the real work at the exhibition. 

Below is a  quick light on form demo with payne's gray, raw umber and titanium white.

   

Workshops at The Collective Art Tank, Asbury Park, NJ / May and June 2013

 I'll be teaching two workshops coming up in May and June at The Collective Art Tank in Asbury Park, NY.  May 25th, 11am-6pm, The Figure in Motion, which is a figure drawing class that focuses on the core movements of the figure (please see detailed course description on Collective Art Tank web site). June 22nd, 11am-6pm, Portrait Painting Workshop, this oil painting class focuses on beginning a portrait with an underpainting and working it up to color (please see detailed course description on Collective Art Tank web site). Hope to see you there!!

Art by the Ferry 2012

Art by the Ferry is a weekend long event this weekend. Kicking it off Friday evening at 60 Bay Street, 7pm. Preview the art exhibition, hear great music performances and literary readings and taste great food from local resturaunts including Beso, Pier 76, Enoteca Maria, 120 Bay Street Cafe and many others! I will have 7 still lives and 4 Cloud paintings on display. For more details visit www.statenislandcreativecommuniy.org.

Hope to see you there!

HARBOR IN BLOOM OPEN STUDIOS

HARBOR IN BLOOM OPEN STUDIOS!!!
Please visit the Artists Studios at Snug Harbor this weekend. We will have our studios open and ready for guests as part of the Harbor in Bloom event. We are in Building H one floor above Art Lab.
WE are open from Noon-5pm both Saturday and Sunday!
You may just find a little lovely work of art for Mothers Day...OR just for yourself OR just pop in to say Hi!!!

Hope to see you there!

Open Studio/Holiday Fair Success!!

Here I am in my beautiful studio at Snug Harbor during a wonderful Open Studio and Holiday fair. It was a great day at the Harbor, festive and booming with people. It was great to have so many people venture up to the top floor of Buliding H to visit the studios. It was the first time up there for many and some didn't even know there were artist studio there. It was great to show people we are there and we do great work!! My "ferryscapes" on NYC metro cards were a huge success. I sold all that I had and took orders for two more. I also sold an all time favorite bellydancer drawing to a great friend. Yep...a good day it was.

Also it was wonderful to have my 6 year old daughter there to see people coming in, responding to my work and buying it!!! Oh yes....many did admired her works around the studio too but, sorry folks none were for sale.

Two of my "Ferryscapes"

painted on used NYC Metro Cards

Snug Harbor Holiday

“Culture Shop”

Saturday, Dec. 3^rd

Noon - 5pm

Site wide Holiday Fair at Snug Harbor

1000 Richmond Terrace

Building H Visit:

The Art Lab

The Staten Island Museum

The Snug Harbor Artists Studios open to the public

(one floor directly above The Art Lab)

Please visit to see wonderful

Fine Art and purchase Fine Art at great prices!!!

The Noble Maritime Collection Gift Shop

and also at the Noble Maritime Collection

The Jacques Marchais Center for Tibetan Art

The Children’s Harbor Montessori School – homemade goods

COAHSI - Staten Island Artists

Snug Harbor Gift Shop, on Cottage Road

SINGLE FARE 2: PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN

These painted drawings are done on used NYC Metro Cards. They are for a show called SINGLE FARE 2: PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN @ Sloan Fine Arts. This show will consist of thousands of works done on metro cards, mostly by artists from NYAA and all selling for ONLY $100. Please consider coming by to check it out. You will truely be amazed by what you see!! The show runs from March 18-26 with the opening reception on March 17th 6-9pm.