Every December I go on a Cary Grant binge. There are a number of reasons for this but mostly because it makes me happy and they are tremendous movies. Doing so at the onset of the holiday rush helps to frame the season for me: with a dash of élan,…
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Late Summer at Harlem Meer, Central Park. Here's a 3x5" ink wash of the copse on the southern shore.
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Over the past six weeks, I've been building out an art gallery site with a lot of content. Have a gander... you can jump to the site at: http://www.msutherland.com/
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Here are some layout samples of the Hai Tao painting catalog I put together last Spring for M. Sutherland Fine Art. In total, it was a 42 page catalog with full plate illustrations and details, plus an essay from Martha Sutherland. I'm very pleased with the way the book came…
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Central Park Meer, Southern Shore in Marine, 3x5 inches, Arches 140lb.
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Chatting with my peeps over at the Sketching Forum and i came up with an alternate solution to my small portable Winsor Newton 1/2 pan traveling watercolor set. Combing through ebay turned up a lot of student watercolor sets that were perfectly viable, save for the junk paint. So I picked…
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I went out and went after sky and water studies in watercolor after finding those things to be the least convincing in my first outing. Here are a selection of attempts. It's an interesting problem trying to figure out how to deal with water. Watercolor is going to require a…
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the Frieze 2014 NYC art fair was nearly as strong as its predecessors. Always a lot to to take away. A few quibbles. But still easily the best art fair in New York. Here are my take-away paintings and sculptures... The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece had two strong showings…
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I've been threatening to make the conversion over to color sketches for some time. This is the first real watercolor sketch from the meer, of the (now familiar) copse on the southern shore. It's clearly emulating the vernacular of the ink washes. And it should. Nice first step. Definitely need…
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