Open Studio

This is a great time to visit my studio and see what I am up to.  It's my Fall 2009 Open Studios and I will be showing my acrylic, oil and pastel portraits.   Sat. Nov. 7th  2-5 and Sun. Nov. 8th  12-4.  If you are interested please don't hesitate to contact me and I can give you directions.

Exhibition

Places Visited:  The Landscape

Reception:  Nov. 15, 2-4,  Exhibition Dates:  Nov. 3 - Dec. 26

Where:  Acton Memorial Library, 486 Main Street, Acton, MA

This Exhibit will have landscapes from Swans Is. and Brooklin Maine as well as locations around MA.    

 And his came out backwards.  The finished painting is first and the pallet is second and the start of the painting is third. My mistake.  This painting will be on display at the Acton Memorial Library, in Acton, MA in Nov. and December for a landscape exhibit.  I hope you can make it.   Sale Price is:  $1050.00 plus shipping. 

This is my pallet on location for the landscape and next will be the painting.

Daily Paintings

Daily Paintings #4      In Sept. I head up north to paint.  This year I was in Brooklin, ME at a beautiful location with water on three sides.  This was a new place so I worried about finding views to paint.  This place was so ideal I painted there for 9 days and I did two paintings per day.  What a great experience.  In this blog I am showing how my pallet develops and my canvas.  I like to start with some crazy colors and finish with some actual colors.    

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. 

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.

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.