Category Archives: painting

Help a brother out

Last week a fire severely damaged an apartment building on Main Street in Rockland. The fire was notable to me for two things. First, although the ground floor was gutted, the utilities survived so that the upper-floor tenants could reoccupy their homes. Second, those tenants included two artists of my acquaintance: painters Alison Hill and […]

Painting pleather

My reference photo for my current painting is extremely low-resolution. The husband’s suit was a standard dark-blue wool, which presents no real challenges. The wife, however, was wearing black wool. It acted like a black hole. Nothing appears in the photo but the silhouette. I spent Monday attempting to create an outfit for her out of […]

Black stovepipes and blacker dogs

I am out of small toned canvases, so I took a 9X12 with me to paint my quick sketch at Rockport harbor. It’s, well, sketchy, but I needed to be done by noon. As I painted, I watched a man playing fetch with his dog, a tiny little ball of black fur named Moose. As I was packing […]

My Life, the short version

I had intended to show this house with artwork on the walls, but as a buyer I would far prefer flawless wall surfaces to beautiful staging. Today a truckload of our stuff is heading to Maine. Much of this is painting inventory. The contents of this house have diminished and concentrated as we’ve finished room […]