Photo of the Day – March 3 – Sunflowers on Neon Green
I made a photograph of a section of a sunflower painting on which I am working. The painting looks nothing like this, …
Photo a Day – Feb 23 – At Home
A damp, rainy …
Photography – Photo a Day – Feb 3 – Whatever it Takes (the view on my morning ride)
November: I’m cool. December: mostly, I remain inspired. End of January: things are getting a little complicated … I get wimpy. “It’s …
Painting a Day – Feb 2 – You’ve Got Mail – SOLD
It is the third in the triptych. This was fun, working in the mindset of “similar but different” to carry a theme. …
Painting a Day – Jan 30 – Flowers on a Rainy Day – SOLD
If you follow the project, you know I trend toward making bright, floral paintings on cold, rainy days. Today is cold and …
Painting a Day – Jan 29 – Sunny Flowers – SOLD
It’s loose and fun and has highlights of yellow, tan and vivid, light green. Today’s January thaw has me thinking about spring, …
Painting a Day – Jan 28 – Watching the Creek
Perhaps, I should be painting ice on the creek, which is the case of the Swatara Creek in Middletown and waterways throughout …
Imaginary Landscapes – New Mixed Media Paintings
They’re done! Layer, texture, paint, repeat. Here are the new works off easel. They are for sale through Arts on Union. …
Genia’s Garden in memory of Eugenia Howes
There was nobody in the world as lovely as Eugenia Howes. If you were blessed to know her, I’ve said enough, right? …
Photographing like a painter
Christine Goldbeck’s customers, collectors and visitors tell me that in many cases my photographs look like paintings. She says, “I love the Impressionists and abstract expressionist impressionism, all of which is to say I adore having light as my creative partner and I love the challenge of taking what I see and making it my own.”
Morning Walk at Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park in Newtown, Pennsylvania is one of my favorite hiking and photographing sites. These were made the Sunday preceding Labor Day, 2010.
Two new paintings just off the easels
Flowers, butterflies and trees appear in a lot of Christine Goldbeck’s paintings. The scenes are in her head as she paints intuitively. Both are highly layered and textured.
Van Gogh Brush with Genius is worth the view
Vincent Van Gogh made more than 800 paintings in his short life. Near the end of his 37 years on Earth, he was averaging three paintings a day. You can hear an actor portraying Van Gogh narrate his life by seeing “Van Gogh Brush with Genius” at an IMAX. As a member of the Art Association of Harrisburg, I had the opportunity to screen the film this evening at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg.