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• Featured Artist• USA 🎨 •Educator🖌 •#houseandgardenmagazine

Color study! Pool is open so I finally feel like s

Color study! Pool is open so I finally feel like summer is coming! Time for beach scenes! #summerscene #pastelsketch #beachlife #summervibes #umbrella #tan #sketchbook #artistlife

“Downtown” 48*36 oil on canvas is my latest ad

“Downtown” 48*36 oil on canvas is my latest adventure in oil. This painting had a few false starts as seem common for me, particularly with large canvases- not sure why. I found myself reflecting on The works of #Schmid, #Sorolla and #Sargent during this production. I am always amazing by their loose paint strokes and unrefined edges, or seemingly unrefined edges. Sometimes I find a brush can hinder me, and in this case my palette knife and fingers rescued this canvas from a pair of pliers..
This scene is loosely inspired by downtown Ridgefield, as you cross the street from the town hall. Not every painting is a masterpiece, but this one certainly helped me prepare for one in my near future.

Color sketch #2, love these trees! Pastels on pape

Color sketch #2, love these trees! Pastels on paper 8*10

It’s that time a year when I can’t wait to do

It’s that time a year when I can’t wait to do a few color studies!
This is a small pastel 8 *10

“Sunrise over the park” 48*36. Oil on canvas #

“Sunrise over the park” 48*36. Oil on canvas #ridgefieldct #ridgefieldpark #sunrise #marshland

I have been working with this mixed media sketch t

I have been working with this mixed media sketch this week- not sure where I am going with it.. but it feels like a misty sunrise in the city. 11.5 *18. On Uart. #foggymorning #mistymorning #cityscape

I had the pleasure of staying at the #Mohonkmounta

I had the pleasure of staying at the #Mohonkmountainhouse this weekend, and actually squeezed in a bit of time to create a color sketch. It is nice to take time away, and just create without a deadline looming or even any goal. #sketching can be therapeutic and healing. Just taking the time to stop and #notice, to record a moment. Isn’t that what we all need to do more of?

I’m so grateful to be the recipient of an Honora

I’m so grateful to be the recipient of an Honorable Mention Award from the Connecticut Pastel Society for my painting “ Waiting for the Rain”!

“Gone” 3’*4’. Oil on canvas. A bit of #hud

“Gone” 3’*4’. Oil on canvas. A bit of #hudsonriver here, a bit of classic #renaissance. More supplies from #acehardware, and #jerrysartarama. #mood. Sometimes a picture says a thousand words.

“125th Street” pastel 24 *40”. This painting

“125th Street” pastel 24 *40”. This painting was inspired by a recent trip to NYC to visit a friend. This painting is only a few moments away from where my Dad worked for 25 years at #engine91 , and therefore a vibrant part of my childhood memories. I was lucky to catch this amazing sunset, as I turned the next corner towards a new friend. I am noticing that I am increasingly attracted to street scenes like this, and capturing moments like these. I wonder as I paint the people in this scene…Where are they going? #nyc #nycart #spanishharlem #cityscape #zatista #schoolbus

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