SKYSCAPES OPENING RECEPTION

Yesterday the Lowertown art district held its monthly Second Saturday Gallery Walk. I planned for a low key reception at Gallery 5 for the Skyscapes exhibit, posting it in our local media and on line networks without a postcard mailing to my mailing list. My expectations for a low turnout were woefully off the mark much to my delight. From 5 to 8 PM there was a constant turn over of visitors, an equal mixture of friends, neighbors, artists, as well as first time visitors to the gallery.

Fortunately there was enough wine, chips, and dip for everyone, but the hands down favorite drink of the evening was the bowl of home made sangria compliments of our lovely neighbor, Valerie. I should point out that everyone in our community goes out of their way to support one another by joyfully drinking their wine and eating their food. Is there a better way of saying I love you?

In the six years that Gallery 5 has been open I’ve averaged 2-3 opening receptions a year and I don’t know that I have enjoyed any of them as much as I did last night.


3 important women in my life! Never far from the food and wine.


Fine art, sangria, and wine, inspire high brow conversation.

SKYSCAPE V

This is the fifth and largest in a series of "skyscapes" I'm planning to show in the gallery next month. like the others, I started by filling the canvas with sky. Only after this stage was complete did I think about what I would be adding to the foreground.


first stage


Skyscape V acrylic 30x24 $1500

ON MY EASELS

Yet to be named...acrylic 20x16 $650


Skyscape V 40x30 work in progress

My recent working "groove" will be interupted when I leave later today for a trip to Maryland-Pennsylvania-Delaware-New Jersey. (Sounds like a lot but all of these states come together so one can travel about 15 miles in any direction an be in any one of them.) There is a reception at East of the Bay Gallery in North East MD for a 2 person show that I am part of. This Gallery has been showing my work for about 8-9 years and we have been doing a one or two person show every 2-3 years with modest success. I will return next week to begin planning for my show of the recent skyscapes in Gallery 5 in June.

SKY SCAPES

Here is the latest in this series, the fourth one in the 30x24 size. I've enjoyed doing them and may have at least one or two more hanging around in the "idea" compartment of my taxed brain.


SKYSCAPE IV acrylic 30x24 $1200

ANOTHER DO-OVER

Barbed Sky acrylic 14x28 $800 sold

This painting began life as a clay mono type, printed on s synthetic woven fabric which I stretched and fastened to a canvas stretcher. In time I became dissatisfied with the work and covered it with several coats of gesso. It will now become part of my "sky scape" series that I plan to show in the gallery next month.

SKY SCAPES

Currently working on a series I'm calling skyscapes...where the focus is on, of all things, the sky. My plan is to show the work in my gallery next month during our "Second Saturday" gallery night.

Here is the most recent piece in the series.


Skyscape III 30x20 $1200

FOR THE BIRDS

This past week, while working on the 2 "upstream" paintings and rehabilitating the NYC piece, I started work on a 4th canvas. It is a rather simple concept and composition but I'm fairly pleased with the result. It felt good to be back into the work once again after several weeks of ABP - anything but painting. I plan to start another canvas so I'll have something else besides the NYC piece, which is a real struggle for me.


For the Birds acrylic on canvas 30x24" NFS