"Fresh Snow (from the studio window)", oil on gessoed paper, 5 x 7
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! I had a great time with my family in Saratoga Springs NY and Ridgefield CT. It's been a busy month traveling which partially accounts for my absence from the blog. The main reason I have not posted very much is that I am starting to take my work in a different direction. I took two classes in the past few months that have really impacted the way I create my artwork. I will discuss these two classes and what I learned from them in more detail in subsequent posts. I will devote more time in the coming year to doing the the preparatory work that goes into creating a piece of art: drawing, design, conceptual refinement, color studies. I am going to use my plein air pieces as real studies and not as just little copies of the scenes I happen to find wherever I may be at the time. The bottom line is that I want to take my work to the next level in the coming year which will require a lot of hard work that doesn't necessarily result in something that can be posted on a blog everyday. I will be working on ways to make this blog more interesting for those of you who like to look at art every day and those who create art every day! I will keep you posted . . .
See you next year!
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