Sunday, August 30, 2009


This  pear was painted as a demonstration piece for a painting class.  I have a lot of pears in different color combinations.  This pear was done  as a lesson in complimentary colors using purple, yellow and white.  The size of the painting is 18X24 which is my standard size I have my students paint in.  It is oil paint on canvas out of a canvas pad.  It can be matted and framed.  Pears are simple subjects that allow the student to explore paint mixing on the pallet, paint texture and application.

Unframed:  I am selling this demo for $75. This includes shipping.  You can purchase this piece by visiting my web site, pottleart.com and using pay pal.

 

 

This includes shipping. 

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Daily Paintings

#2   Daily paintings.  Part of this BLOG entry is to offer works of art that are created in a class environment as lessons to my students.  These paintings tend to be spontaneous and very freeing.  I am always painting.  If not on my own work I am always doing demos for classes, working along with private lessons and doing short studies to help my own work.  I have been teaching for 22 years and I have a huge collection of demo artwork done quickly in class. They are fast, loose and spontaneous.  Each one that I will list are created for a different event. The one that I am listing today is a two part/dyptic landscape study for a proposed longer painting.  This was done as an example to my students to how to execute a painted study before working into a longer painting of the landscape subject.  Doing studies allows an artist to choose the composition for the actual painting.  It would be a lovely dyptic, matted and framed and placed on the wall.  I am selling this demo for $75.  You can purchase this Tree painting through my web site by using pay pal,  Pottleart.com.  

Painting Demo in Lenox, MA 2009

This was this past June 2009 in Lenox, MA.  I was doing a demo for the public for the Hanback Gallery.  The scene is  looking up  Church Street.  I  starting the painting in acrylics and later working into oils.

Friday, August 21, 2009

The Artist

My whole life has been about creating and I could not be without painting, drawing and making something in the studio.  I got my BFA at Syracuse University and MFA at the Museum School/ Tufts University in painting and a minor in printmaking.  I teach fine arts at the DeCordova Museum School and privately to adults and children.  My artwork sells and is displayed in a variety of venues, galleries, open studios, art conventions, corporate art and private collectors.

 

I am always thinking about my next painting while I’m involved creating a painting in the present.  I never have enough time to paint everything that is in my conscious brain.  It’s not that I am distracted while painting but enthusiastic about the experience that my mind flows to other ideas and subjects.   It takes me weeks to set up the still life to my liking and then while I start the painting I am move my objects around to enhance the composition and concept.  I believe that if a painter works from life then use it to it’s fullest, change what is in front of you in order to change the painting.  It costs less and it’s easier to see.  Exaggerate ideas while keeping the resources evolving while the work of art evolves.  My complete work can be seen on my web site, pottleart.com.