It was my first visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in a long, long time. While the profile of the museum has increased among the non-art crowd over the past few years because of the recent documentary about the art theft, it remains one of the true treasures for anybody who loves art.
It’s kind of fitting filling the last pages of my sketchbook comes as the last days of the year are upon us. I’ve been working on some quick ink sketches, still modeling compositions and themes using values and boat imagery. With my sketchbook and mind full, January should be a productive month.
A decent amount of work, both finished and unfinished, started to stack up in my studio. New empty canvases hung out waiting for their moment to shine. Tubes of unopened paint and a new shipment of pandemic expensive lumber arrived to flesh out my personal supply chain. I was encouraged by the small but enthusiastic…
Here’s a look at the first of my three day whirlwind tour of the Louvre in Paris.
Here’s some of the latest goings on in the art world. I’ll just leave this link here. I really can’t tell you what I think of this. Neanderthals made art before humans did! Stanley Spencer is an amazing painter I’ve always admired. He was also, sadly, a broken man. I randomly ran across this sketch…
