Cape Cod Painting in the Wind

Here is a photo of me painting right before sunset in Provincetown from a recent painting trip.  The wind was very strong this evening so I was holding onto my paint box for dear life so that it wouldn't fly away....

New Painting

Here is a "New" painting, I say "New" instead of New, because it is an old painting that I had kicking around for a while, I re-worked and changed a few things that were bothering me about the painting.  I do this from time to time if the paintings are around long enough...if there is something about the painting that stands out to me.  

"Shade from the Hat" oil/canvas 8x10

Garry Gilmartin 1949-2010

Garry Gilmartin

I was sorry to hear about the passing of artist, Garry Gilmartin while on my recent painting trip to Cape Cod.  I showed in a gallery with him out there for about 5 years.  Only met him a few times, but the few times we talked we had great conversations about art and he recently gave me a really nice panel to paint on.

Here is some info on Garry:

"Sunday Morning"  by Garry Gilmartin

Garry Gilmartin was born in Palmer, Massachusetts in 1949. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut and spent a postgraduate year studying under Ken Davies. For the next 15 years, Garry pursued an award-winning commercial illustration career in New York City and Boston.  
Mr. Gilmartin fell in love with Cape Cod while visiting friends and commercial illustration became a thing of the past as he became immersed in painting New England, its structures and its people. The positive response to his fine art work came immediately. His work is in the permanent collection of the Ashville Art Museum,
Ashville, NC.


According to Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Garry Gilmartin’s paintings are “a magical window into a world of tranquil beauty.” He managed “to capture the essence of light falling across form and, by passing that image through a personal filter of emphasis and subordination, brought the viewer along to share his inspiration.”

Classical Underground 10.25.10

From the Classical Underground Blog (www.classicalunderground.blogspot.com)

 Classical Underground Showcase:

 Focus on Design in Painting: The Three Compadres

Glenn Dean, Logan Hegege, Eric Merrell

As the newest stage of contemporary realism, which I came to call NOVOREALISM, is gaining steam with great new generation of young American talent, it is showing itself in a diverse variety of existing and distinct forms.

"Realism" in painting is often thought of as something that "looks just like a photograph," which in fact cannot be further from its actual substance. "Photorealism" is a respected and established part of a modernist expression, which is aimed at recreating a technological effect of a photograph. "Realism" is based solely on the laws and principles of a human perception of a visual world. Even when "realist" painters use photographs (even though when they do, it is most often as a very secondary reference) it is done entirely based on their long-developed ability to interpret visual reality "live."

One of the key elements of this human interpretation of "real" is our sense of "design" which is aimed at making personal choices of importance and priorities within the chosen subject through the arrangement of main compositional forms - something no techno gadget is capable of making regardless of a price tag.

Great friends who shared many travel adventures together, Glen, Logan and Eric are some of today's leading young artists investigating in their enormously effective andaesthetically satisfying work the visual force of "design."

Another Cape Cod Painting

"Passing Clouds" oil/linen 8x10, painted on location. 

Here is another small painting I put together on the recent trip to Provincetown.  This was a fast moving scene with light changes and clouds moving everywhere, I spent about 45 minutes on this one.

Cape Cod Paintings

I have been on a painting trip for the past couple of weeks with a group of artists from around the country...and even one from Mexico.  I will try and post some more details on the trip soon.  In the meantime here are a couple of paintings I have done on this trip. 

"Shimmer" oil/linen 6x8

"Harbor, Late Day" oil/linen 9x12

More photos from Alexey's Studio

Group shot, Left to Right: Logan Maxwell Hagege, Aaron Westerburg, Charles Morris, Alexey Steele, Rose Frantzen, Daniel Pinkham, Richard Schmid, Peter Adams, Susan Lyon, Ignat Ignatov, Jeremy Lipking, Scott Burdick, Ryan Brown, Nancy Guzik, Michelle Dunnaway, Joseph Todorovitch.  Tony Pro was missing from this photo because he was cooking all of us a great meal. 

Scott Burdick, Alexey Steele and Rose Frantzen

Susan Lyon, Jeremy Lipking, Aaron Westerburg

Logan Maxwell Hagege and Daniel Pinkham

Tony Pro at work.

L to R: Leonid Steele, Alexey Steele, Richard Schmid, Rose Frantzen, Ignat Ignatov, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Nancy Guzik, Greg Pro, Tony Pro

L to R: Peter Adams, Joseph Todorovitch, Scott Burdick, Susan Lyon, Aaron Westerburg

Tony Pro, Richard Schmid, Alexey Steele, Daniel Pinkham

L to R: Richard Schmid, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Leonid Steele, Daniel Pinkham, Alexey Steele

L to R: Alexey Steele, Richard Schmid, Daniel Pinkham, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Ignat Ignatov, Nancy Guzik, Tony Pro, Ryan Brown, Michelle Dunnaway.

Painting at Alexey Steele's studio

Some of the group painting at Alexey Steele's studio, including: Logan Maxwell Hagege, Aaron Westerburg,  Charles Morris, Rose Frantzen, Peter Adams, Alexey Steele, Dan Pinkham, Richard Schmid, Ignat Ignatov, Nancy Gusik, Susan Lyon, Michelle Dunnaway, Jeremy Lipking, Scott Burdick, Ryan Brown, Joseph Todorovitch and Tony Pro (not pictured)


I spent the last couple of days painting with some of the finest Artists in this country,  at Alexey Steele's studio in Los Angeles.  It is a very rare thing for so many artists from around the country to be able to get together like this and paint together, talk to one another, eat together and inspire each other.  It was great to spend time with of these artists in once place at the same time.  I will try to post some more images later.  

New Painting

"Dream Catcher" oil/linen 12x9

Define: Artist

art·ist

[ahr-tist] 

–noun

1.

a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.