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September 7th, 2019
Hello friends and art fans! Here's a little Art of Lore...
In Hyde Park, New York, next to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, there's a beautiful hidden garden -- the Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield -- that I had the good fortune to wander into one fine summer day. It's a serene place with a storybook look -- emerald-green grass, vine-covered walls, and arched stone gateways worthy of the worlds of Narnia or Middle Earth. This painting is my impression of one of them.
What wonderland do you spy on the other side?
Title: Garden Lore
Painted: June 2017
Paints: Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colours
Paper: Arches Watercolor Block, cold pressed, 140lb 9"x12"
May the Lore be with you!
September 2nd, 2019
Hello friends and art fans! Here's a little Art of Lore...
This painting features a favorite motif of mine -- the remarkable Wukoki Pueblo from the Wupatki National Monument in Arizona. It's one of a few surviving dwellings built a thousand years ago by the Sinaqua people using the red layered sandstone that the land provided them.
This time I went back to my original photographs from 1984 and recreated the scene as faithfully as possible while applying a classic impressionist style borrowed from the 20th century American painter A. B. Davies in his later watercolors. I've been looking to try this style for a while now and this seemed like the perfect subject. I hope you enjoy it!
Title: Sandstone Lore
Painted: May 2017
Paints: Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colours
Paper: Arches Watercolor Block, cold pressed, 140lb 9"x12"
May the Lore be with you!
August 31st, 2019
Hello friends and art fans! Here's a little Art of Lore...
It's off to Scotland's Ayrshire county for a scene from the farming life. This one features a four-legged friend we met years ago -- a young Jersey bull -- happily grazing in a hillside pasture that sloped down to the edge of the North Atlantic, whose waters you see in the distance here. What beautiful animals, he and his herd! I hope I did him justice.
Title: Jersey Lore
Painted: May 2017
Paints: Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colours
Paper: Arches Watercolor Block, cold pressed, 140lb 9"x12"
May the Lore be with you!
August 24th, 2019
Hello friends and art fans! Here's a little Art of Lore...
This idyllic scene comes from the shores of Oaxaca on Mexico's wild but beautiful southwest coast. The jungle begins not far from where I found this surreal windowed wall. You can see it encroaching on the stuccoed structure, reaching to reclaim the ocean vista it once commanded all alone.
Title: Tropical Lore
Painted: May 2017
Paints: Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colours
Paper: Arches Watercolor Block, cold pressed, 140lb 9"x12"
May the Lore be with you!
