FALL ART SHOWS

This coming month, I will be in two art shows.  First, I will have several small paintings hanging in the Z Gallery in West Chester for the whole month.  This is part of the Delaware Valley Art League show.  So come out on November 4th for the Opening from 6:00 - 9:00 pm and meet the artists.

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The Penn Crest Christmas Craft show will be on November 19th, 10:00 AM TO 3:30 PM at their High School located behind the Granite Run Mall in Lima, Pa on Route One south of Media.  I do this show since it is a local one for me.  I will have a large display of art as including originals both small and medium, new 8 x 10 " framed or matted prints including the John Chadd House, the Gate of Thanksgiving that I have not had for a long time, as well as my new painting of two Roses all priced reasonably that make great Christmas gifts.  In addition, I will have other framed 14 x 18 and 16 X 20 prints at special prices.  This is my last show before the end of the year, so there are discounts to clean out my inventory to make room for the work I will do over the winter.
MEMORIES  Special for this show this print only will be $10!!!  Great to use to frame , mat or use even as a poster on foam core.
Let em know if you have a specific print you want to buy and I will be sure to bring it, either framed or by itself. 

OCEAN CITY BLOCK FALL BLOCK PARTY

UNBELIEVABLE, FANTASTIC, WHAT A DAY.
I am guessing over 75,000 people.  They just kept coming along the street and some stopped in my tent to look and buy art.  This was my very best show at this event. I sold matted prints, framed prints, cards and framed originals.
In addition, Jan took one of my photos of a life guard stand, beach chairs and umbrellas on the 8th street beach and had it reproduced on high quality sweatshirts to sell................and almost sold out. 

We also sold three of our daughter Dawn's photos of several scenes of Ocean City.  The weather was the best I ever remember.  We went for a long weekend and spent time with good friends riding bikes, walking the boards and then they helped us sell at the show and set up the tent.
My next show will be the Z Gallery in West Chester for the month of November.  I also currently I have three paintings at the Gryphon Cafe in Wayne.
Our last show will be in Media at the Penn Crest High School the Saturday before Thanksgiving...........and wait to you see my newest prints and new originals. 

This is another flower painting from my course.  I learned to add colors that were not in the rose.  Also, highlights were added that were not there and your will find more variety in the leaves than you could have seen in the leaves.  Now I need to take these lessons and paint a few new flower paintings.

If you are interested in coming to one of my shows, send me an e-mail for a discount coupon.  Also if you have any questions about watercolors let me know.

I just returned from a vacation to Nova Scotia and will have some new sketches to show you on my next blog.  

Watercolor Flower Lessons

For three days, we spent painting flowers with different fresh cut flowers in our room.  We had roses, daisies, peonies, and more roses.  I tried to paint daisies the first today and found that hard with out a background.
However, it was important to try and see if I could paint the daisies.  Daisies are easy to paint outdoors with a green background, but with this attempt in the studio, it was difficult.

The second day I tried to paint roses. In this case Our instructor, Carolyn Anderson, was a big help as she would review our work and give us suggestions.   In this picture, you can see how a leaf was added to the bottom to add some interest and a little different color to the arrangement. I changed the value and color in some of the roses to provide some variety.  

New Flower Paintings

A few weeks ago just before we went to Ocean city New Jersey on vacation with our family, I completed a three day course in painting flowers in watercolor.  I used some roses that you see here.  I also used some pink peonies and then some other red roses.  Each day I painted but it wasn't until our teacher spent time each day to critique our paintings that