Finally, after having Mokie here for over three years, I’ve painted her official portrait. It’s a 16 x 20 pastel on sanded paper that I mounted onto gesso board.
Mokie’s Official Portrait
pastel painting
Elliot Museum Show
Two of my plein air paintings were selected to be in this invitational show, which is already hung at the Elliot.
If you are in the area, hope you get a chance to swing by. 🙂
Pastel Demo and more Tuesday Paintings
Recently I was asked to do a demonstration of my method of painting with watercolor and pastels at a local art club. It was a fun morning and well received. Here is the painting I did for them that I started with a watercolor underpainting.
and here are more plein air Tuesday paintings:
Prints
Recently I discovered a website that allows artists to upload their work and make it available for the public to buy as prints. They will even frame it! They will do giclee prints on stretched canvas as well as paper prints and there are a number of good quality papers to choose from. The frame selection seems limited, but it could be that I haven’t seen all they have yet.
My page has three galleries – Landscape, Still life and Animals. If you click on the gallery link on the right you will be able to go there and see what I have so far. If there is anything anyone would like made available, just let me know either in the comments or via email and I’ll see if it’s something that can be done.
If you are interested in making your own gallery there, it wasn’t hard to do [and it’s free], but do recommend that you get your images ready – they need to be higher resolution than 800×800.
“A Trip Down the Loxahatchee”
“A Trip Down the Loxahatchee” by Jim Snyder will debut on Nov. 21 when the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum holds the “Lighthouse River Rendezvous.” The annual fund raiser will unfold along the river, at the foot of the museum, on Saturday evening starting at 6:00 pm. http://www.jupiterlighthouse.org/jupiter-events-november.php
This coffee table book is made up of paintings and photographs by local artist of the Loxahatchee River and will be for sale in local gift shops. Some time ago Jim asked me if he could include this painting in the book and of course I said yes. It’s a small pastel painting that I did on location.
The Mokie Chronicles Day 2 #kidlitart28
Day Two – Toys don’t need ears!
Cows
The Cow – Robert Lewis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
she gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
Publicity!
It’s rare to get free publicity, at least for me it is, but one of my paintings will be in the next issue, July/August, of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. (not on newsstands yet) http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/
The magazine is one of those well done, high quality, shiny art magazines that is aimed at collectors.
My painting is part of a photo essay on painting in parks, which is something I love to do. One of my favorite parks is a local one, Jonathan Dickinson State Park and the painting is one of several I’ve done of the Loxahatchee River. You’ve seen it here before, but here it is again:
You can see other paintings that are part of the Painting the Parks program on the Fine Art Gallery page.
Also here is the link to the website for Painting the Parks, so that you can see other park paintings. http://painttheparks.com/
Red Flag
Yes, of course it’s another beach painting from Hobe Sound Beach. But, this time it’s done in pastels. Finally, I’ve gotten around to trying out the pallet of John Pierce Barnes to see how complete it is. Here’s the link to the older post:
http://hobesoundartist.com/2012/06/02/john-pierce-barnes/
It was very complete, just needed to go back to the big box for one stick of a darker tan and one better mid tone flesh color. It was nice to be limited to the smaller selection of colors and yet I felt as though I had plenty to choose from. Makes for a very portable pastel kit. If you do any plein air painting you know that’s a huge plus.
