O-Bon Duo With striking traditional dress costumes from earlier eras, these two casual Japanese youngsters were colorfully contrasted celebrants for the annual summer O-Bon Festival in Kyoto. The riot of costumes on people of all ages, hand-made hand-drawn wagons in...
Revisiting the Veil – After Sargent John Singer Sargent continues to inspire legions of painters, and his watercolors are just that for this artist. To better understand his techniques, I reversed this delicate image, interpreted and applied most of the palette...
Taking an Artist’s Measure After a fresh clam dinner during summer vacation, the residue shells became a painting subject. The delicate shadings and pearlescent quality of the shells’ surfaces were fascinating to observe and a challenge to capture in watercolor....
Olivia & Abby’s Climb Marblehead, MAMarblehead Light, one of the Town’s historic, iconic structures, is portrayed with a focus on only the lower entry portal and the tracery of the supporting pipes and cables with their strong cast shadows. The idea was...
Windblown on Surfside Nantucket, MAA fun view of children and parent bathers enjoying the sun in different ways at Surfside’s vigorous shoreline. The upturned umbrella happened in an instant, and with the suggestive splashing of the surf, added a dimension of...
