tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20858973758014549252024-03-12T18:54:36.590-07:00Bruce Starr's PaintingsBruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-22411799212635462802014-01-03T14:43:00.003-08:002014-01-03T15:34:20.887-08:00Happy 2014!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last Chance to see the Animated Holiday Windows in Washington DC!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Soon it will be time to disassemble the holiday displays I build each year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>...until January 9th</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and one more of the North Pole Christmas village as elves load the sleigh</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Capitol Hill" window features a holiday village version of the neighborhood surrounding the Capitol Dome in Washington DC</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">New Year, New Paintings</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this piece, the last evening light above the darkening station contrasts with the amber glow of artificial light surrounding the tracks and parking lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This painting also features an impressionistic study of contrast in light; here the warmth of the sun on a meadow in early autumn, and the rich shade under the canopy of nearby trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The title of this smaller piece pretty much tells the story of why I found the scene interesting. The view is from the walkway of the Ben Franklin Bridge , where you get a good view of the steeple of St. Augustine Church, along with more pedestrian structures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all who visited </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">the Turtle Artisan's Holiday Pop-up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope your mama got her shoppin' done!</span><br />
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Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-81066037053060611102013-11-27T06:10:00.002-08:002013-11-27T08:02:42.644-08:00HOLIDAZE COMING FAST<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Visit me at the Turtle Artisans Holiday Pop-up Store!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Opening reception: Friday Dec.13, 7-9 pm</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Saturday Dec.14 & Sunday Dec.15: 12-4pm</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">view the facebook page link here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be showing new small paintings in custom frames that make super-special holiday gifts. Even better, a portion of each sale will support the Elkins Park Park Train Station renovation. If you haven't seen what's happening in this great new community gathering place, this is the perfect opportunity to visit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For more information about the train station renovation project:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My painting focus has become more regional lately. Subject matter inspiration has come from downtown Philadelphia and up through the Delaware Valley. There are beautiful canal trails, great for hiking, on both sides of the river in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On a Sunday in September, despite threatening weather, I found a great loop route from Frenchtown to Milford on the Jersey side, then circling back through PA from Upper Black Eddy (love that name). The scene above looks from the bridge at Frenchtown towards Upper Bucks on a moody overcast afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This small but richly colored piece depicts a back road in Delaware where I love to go biking. The rural scene is complimented by an oversized frame made from weathered salvaged gate pickets I found near Shwenksville PA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you find yourself in Washington DC this holiday season, visit the annual ANIMATED HOLIDAY WINDOW DISPLAY that I began creating more than 12 years ago! On Pennsylvania Avenue, just a few blocks from the Capitol Dome, these displays are commissioned for the storefront windows of Coldwell Bankers by the best Real Estate Agent on Capitol Hill, Phyllis Jane Young! This year the scenes will include a Victorian town with working train, cable cars, and skating pond, a Capitol Hill Neighborhood, complete with local business, A North Pole scene with elves busy loading the sleigh, and an ever-snowing Christmas tree!</span><br />
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Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-74740784477719778462013-10-01T09:50:00.001-07:002013-10-10T08:39:43.374-07:00NEW PAINTINGS<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been working on some smaller pieces that were first shown at the recent Jenkintown Art Festival:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16 x 12, Casein on muslin covered board</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This scene is along the West Trenton SEPTA commuter rail line, just inside the Philadelphia City limits. I was drawn to the daylight fading over the tracks, casting magenta light onto the clouds over the adjacent buildings, as warm yellow light glows from apartments within the structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12 x 9, Casein on muslin covered board</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With autumn bringing its crisp harvest palette, it's interesting to see the contrast with the pastel tones of spring. This small but lush piece depicts a woman with two children enjoying a walk on a warm afternoon in late April, as trees burst into blossom</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12 x 9, Casein on muslin covered board</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This small painting features a bronze sculpture from the 1924 Swann Memorial Fountain in downtown Philly's Logan Square, designed by Alexander Calder and dedicated to philanthropist Wilson Swann. Though an iconic local landmark, few people examine the sculpture closely enough to realize the sculptor's pun--his grandly traditional nude "river goddess" is grasping a geyser-spewing swan, thus acknowledging the fountain's namesake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">During the Halloween season in October 2013, the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center will host a series of events celebrating Philadelphia's historic Victorian cemetery, Laurel Hill. For more information, visit this link:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've contributed this painting to the "impressions of Laurel Hill" art show opening Sunday, Oct 13:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2013, 36 x 24, Casein on muslin covered panel</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Although I created a stylized fantasy piece, I still wanted to convey the amazing setting, as the cemetery rises on the bluffs overlooking the Schulkill River. Drippingly ornate Victorian mausoleums and crypts are tucked precariously on terraces above Kelly Drive, along with granite blocks and obelisks standing like dominoes in undulating rows along the cliff sides. Exploring the cemetery, I could not shake the feeling that I had wandered onto a Tim Burton movie set, so I decided to paint accordingly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I recently had the honor of collaborating with renowned artist Mordechai Rosenstein. A calligraphy artist most famous for his graphic interpretations of passages from the Torah, Mordechai's work is valued and displayed by not only private collectors, but by synagogues throughout the United States and around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mordechai and I designed this tablet for an exhibit coming to Philadelphia in November, "Beyond the Railcar", documenting a project by school kids to better understand the holocaust. They collected 6 million paper clips to help them comprehend the number of people killed by the Nazis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The main panel depicts the back of a boxcar like the ones used to transport Jews to concentration camps. The center plaque is a Liberty Bell silhouette, acknowledging the Philadelphia exhibit location, filled with brass paper clips! Mordechai then painted a quotation from Leviticus that is inscribed on the Liberty Bell itself, "Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof"</span></div>
Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-76525575510845229732013-09-02T15:57:00.001-07:002013-09-03T19:13:18.775-07:00FALL FEATURES<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Sunday Sept.22, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">12:30 to 6:30pm</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm working on a variety of new smaller paintings that will be ready in time for the festival. These will be custom framed and ready to hang or give as a gift. Here are a few samples:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Oak, Country Lane" 2013 12x9<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Populated Landscapes" featured in QUAIL BELL MAGAZINE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This online and print magazine is described as "a social and artistic experiment in the imaginary, the nostalgic & the otherworldly". Link to their feature on my paintings here:</span></div>
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Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-45850171623667707942013-08-20T13:12:00.000-07:002013-08-22T10:23:45.115-07:00Yucatan "Populated Landscape"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This painting is another from my trip to Yucatan last year. The sun-drenched beach at Progresso faces the Gulf of Mexico from the very center of the peninsula. The area is modern and developed, attracting many tourists, but this scene captures a local family fishing trip on the quay. I wanted to depict the intensity of the sun suffusing the afternoon with vivid colors of turquoise, pink and yellow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the first painting from my recent trip to Cape Cod. The exceptional quality of the light at sunset inspired this study of a side street in Provincetown's west end. With most of streetscape dark with purple shadows, the façade of one house picked up the amber and salmon colors of the clouds, while the open bay beyond remained in reflected daylight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 14 x 14 Casein on muslin covered panel</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(Unfortunately, the photograph loses some of the subtlety of the rich colors)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Winner of Plein Air Competition</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">"Paint Our Town" event sponsored by Medford Art Center</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On June 1, I participated in a Plein Air (outdoor) painting contest in Medford NJ, and annual event of the Medford Art Center. I was very excited that my painting won the first place prize! My painting and others from the contest are on display at the Medford Arts Center, in conjunction with the "Metro 29 Show" from August 31 thru October 4th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">More info about hours and location at the Art Center Website: <a href="http://medfordartscenter.org/?p=985">http://medfordartscenter.org/?p=985</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Casein paintings by Bruce Starr</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">for hours and info visit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This painting is a great reminder of summer evenings at the shore; in this piece, watching the sun set from Herring Cove Beach on Cape Cod</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of my paintings have been selected for exhibit in the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center's 5th juried event running through July. For more information about the show, visit the MRAC website:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Storm Clouds over Manayunk Viaduct" 2013: 26 x 24, Casein on muslin covered panel</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been working on this vividly colored mural, designed to raise curiosity and awareness about the plan to preserve the historic Elkins Park Train Station, and turn it into a community center.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I painted plywood panels on a loooooong easel set up inside the station itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Saturday a group of volunteers helped install the panels on the outbound shelter structure, where it can be seen from the commuter parking lot and the business district around Creekside Co-op.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.elkinscentral.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.elkinscentral.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This new work is on display at the Frame House gallery, 7900 High School Road in Elkins Park PA. I was really pleased with how the moody scene became more interesting with the integration of the painting into the frame, the blue tones enriched by an intense periwinkle floater and the beauty of the heavy weathered chestnut outer rail. I built this frame from wood I found in a salvage yard, and was told by the owner that it was originally the back rail of a church pew. It works beautifully for its new purpose! </span><br />
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Septa riders may recognize the multi-colored, angled strokes in the right section of this painting as an interpretation of the glazed tile wall of the Market East station platform area. Light pours in from the glass shaftway above, reflecting and refracting from the glossy wall surface onto the platform and patrons. Yet the underground darkness of the tunnels still pervades the space. My palette became more high-contrast and intense than usual to capture this atmosphere. I was also interested in capturing the feeling of people interacting in this public space--or rather not interacting, with many characters' attention focused downwards to their hand-held devices. The scene made me think of an earlier impressionistic painting, also of people taking public transportation, "Boston Common at Twilight" by Childe Hassan. (shown below) A very different mood of a different time, but somehow connected.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Special thanks to</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> New painting series:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">"EYES ON THE ROAD,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">HEAD IN THE CLOUDS"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Nightfall Over Turnpike Crossovers" 36 x 24, Casein</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To help raise funds to create a community arts space in the station's beautiful original waiting room I will be painting a mural for the outbound side of the station facing the High School Road business district.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lisa Stockebrand, Cynthia Blackwood, Bruce Starr at Elkins Park Station</span></td></tr>
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<img height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpFdIkL9UuP0LBuKH7wdqpqYxXjIsdDfz4YX-EIIT0uxZLwJzcqPtHQ07chkqKlh-5cUk034AbV4HKAn3RnNlipYAR56fdkFNxeFpo9LVrKcMpm-etlg7rWtt7hqvGOpVmeyrT0gLyEk0/s200/Welcome.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 122px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 165px;" width="96" />Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-85491637489269423032013-04-19T06:16:00.002-07:002013-04-20T10:16:21.137-07:00"Beginnings" exhibit continues through April at OCJAC gallery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bruce with his paintings at the OCJAC gallery on First Friday</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A beautiful spring evening fueled the crowds in Philly's Old City during April's First Friday event. Four paintings from my new series "Eyes on the Road, Head in the Clouds" were on display in the OCJAC gallery at 119 N. 3rd St. in the show "Beginnings" which runs through April.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visitors view pieces from my "Eyes/Clouds" series</span>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">By coincidence, the scene for the two pieces shown below was the street just outside this gallery, on another First Friday last fall:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another recent work from the Esplanade along the Charles River in Boston on a warm summer afternoon</span></div>
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<br />Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-23446073037673796352013-04-19T05:20:00.001-07:002013-06-06T17:29:04.913-07:00Special Pricing on Selected Framed Original Paintings <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pieces below are among those with special pricing for the tour event, benefiting the Elkins Park Train Station Renovation effort. All these paintings include custom frames. (Click picture to view larger image)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Classic Gold Frame</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Classic Gold Frame</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chestnut floater frame</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24 x 12, casein, Classic Gold Frame</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also available during the tour, or from the Frame House gift shop. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">These are objects I've found and salvaged from rural Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Maryland. They display the craftsmanship of previous centuries, which I've </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">reworked and updated for a new life as home furnishings and accessories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This table would fit perfectly in a foyer or behind a sofa. The beautifully turned legs began life a rope bed in Pennsylvania's Perkioman Valley, probably at least 250 years ago. They have been refinished with a beautiful black cherry Casein stain, and fitted with a rustic pine plank top, protected with a polyurethane finish.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This 5-hook coat rack was made from a beautifully weathered picket gate also found in rural PA. Because it was never painted, I merely sanded the planks lightly and sealed them with polyurethane prior to re-crafting them into this rack.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Weathered column bases salvaged near Schwenksville Pa formed the bases for this pair of Votive Candle Trays with bun feet. The trays were first dyed with burgundy casein stain, then hand painted with a tracery of branches, buds and leaves, creating modern candle holders with a rustic heirloom feel. These make a perfect dinner party presentation used on a long dining table with a floral centerpiece in between.</span>Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-28843823665825909372013-03-13T12:48:00.002-07:002013-04-19T12:53:03.576-07:00Creekside Co-op Designer's Tour<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a slideshow designer's tour of the new Creekside Co-op in Elkins Park PA. Interior design and casework contracting for this project occupied most of my time last year (sadly limiting my time for painting!) The slideshow tour video above shows off the interior where most of my efforts were focussed. I also produced exterior renderings used by the design committee and general contractor, as in the example below.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The co-op opened just in time for the 2012 holidays</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Below are a few of my favorite shots from the construction period</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The two pictures above are "Before and After" shots of the same wall. My design work included preserving the look of the original ceiling beams and exposed brick at the top of the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the interior nearing completion, my casework gets installed. Below are shots of my renderings used for planning and placement of the checkout lanes, and the lanes being used in the finished store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">48 x 32, casein on muslin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've been mainly working on bigger canvases recently, and this piece is my largest to date. The scene is from the Jersey side of the Delaware River on a hazy afternoon in early summer. I was attracted to the contrast of the gleaming skyline (the city of Philadelphia) on the left, and a hulking old dredge on the right. In the foreground, a family fishes on the sandy shore near the shadows of the overhanging trees in New Jersey's Palmyra Nature Preserve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On my many trips back an forth from Boston to Philadelphia during my recent transition, I was always attracted to the cloud formations over the highway. I hope to do a series of paintings expressing different light conditions, weather patterns, and geographic and structural elements of highway travel. In this piece, I'm pleased with the colors and movement both on the ground and in the sky, and the exploration of how these two elements interact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">June 18th was the semi-annual meeting for the membership of the Creekside Coop, the first since the beginning of construction. I was very happy to make a presentation showing the digital 3-D models I've been creating for the interior. It was the first visual preview the members got of their new store. I will be very busy until fall, when the coop opens its doors, building custom millwork and helping with the design implementation, so I'm not planning to do any more gallery shows or festivals until after the coop is up and running. </span></div>
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Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-14458766491329818692012-05-02T06:40:00.000-07:002012-05-02T07:45:46.308-07:00Bruce at the Beacon Hill Art Walk, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Beacon Hill Artwalk is one of Boston's best festivals for painters, and I am very much looking forward to participating in this venue. For more information, you can link to the festival website at: <a href="http://www.beaconhillartwalk.org/">http://www.beaconhillartwalk.org/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Since re-locating to Philadelphia, I have been insanely busy setting up a workshop, settling in, and getting re-involved in the community I left several years ago. Finding time to paint has been difficult. I've completed a couple pieces shown below, but need to find more time to paint before the Art Walk! I apologize that I have not updated the painting inventory in some time, especially after selling a few pieces at the Frame House gallery last month. Please touch base if you have questions at <a href="mailto:bstarrpaintings@gmail.com">bstarrpaintings@gmail.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The happiest coincidence of my timing in returning to Philly is the constuction of the new Creekside Coop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Many years ago now, I opened the Elkins Perk Coffeehouse next to a well-established neighborhood gourmet grocery, Ashbourne Market. But when its family owners retired, the store went downhill and soon closed. The community has worked long and hard to create a new food cooperative in this once-thriving space, and was finally able to buy the building and begin renovations this year. I am priveledged to be working on the design committee, and have created a 3-D Sketchup model to help envision the space. Here's a 2-D graphic of what the new market will look like:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As the local-foods movement has gained momentum, food coops have changed greatly. The Creekside Food Coop will be an amazing full-service grocery, great source for local produce and products, have a huge selection of salads, deli, and prepared foods, plus a cafe/community gathering place. I'm very excited to watch this great idea come to life! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Meanwhile, I've also been finishining projects in my old stomping ground, Cambridge! Here's a couple pictures of my friend Jeff's condo, with his new fireplace, shelving and media cabinetry:</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My good friend Cynthia Blackwood's gallery and custom framing store provides a great backdrop for my paintings throughout the month of March. I think this my pieces look better here than any other gallery venue I've had to date! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just around the corner from the Downtown Crossing T Station, between the Paramount Theater and Macy's on Washington Street!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry I have no new paintings to show. The last month has been crazy as I've been relocating to Philadelphia! However I will be set up in my new space soon, and hope to have some new work to share by the end of February!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I will be donating this piece to the Winter Warmup Silent Auction and Dance Party to benefit the Friends of High School Park.</span><br />
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</span>Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-27161763330516925602011-12-17T12:48:00.000-08:002011-12-17T12:52:02.934-08:00Bruce Starr Paintings at "Out of the Blue Gallery," Cambridge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7nyVKgDZqXtJ5Tb5wjw0SsofM6IvyuZOIw31qQRCAhUrAtEkX6_BjQh95fU3OCOgJ6n-uPOOPyzZqujJMUpM-pPMAG9m8XvV_2Dqxp_-91eFOE7hMAGNn5HTZpXDsimMmQxIGU9w3Loe/s1600/out+of+the+blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7nyVKgDZqXtJ5Tb5wjw0SsofM6IvyuZOIw31qQRCAhUrAtEkX6_BjQh95fU3OCOgJ6n-uPOOPyzZqujJMUpM-pPMAG9m8XvV_2Dqxp_-91eFOE7hMAGNn5HTZpXDsimMmQxIGU9w3Loe/s320/out+of+the+blue.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My work is currently on display at two locations in Cambridge MA. The "Out of the Blue Gallery" is a great community venue on Prospect Street just off Central Square. My pieces can also be seen in the Middle East Restaurant on Mass. Ave. Check back soon, as I will be posting more pictures and info from these venues!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please visit the past posts for info on other venues and recent paintings</span>Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-84038732126536561912011-10-22T17:31:00.000-07:002011-12-17T12:54:22.563-08:00Bruce Starr at Deluca Gallery, Provincetown MA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72a2oz8voX97cFl4LaF6uBikknXYSynIXRoWj71F_dsqx0PxNa0D8dL1SzrXfhEhJ26OCZbZY72RiZUfG9CXgpUvN9oJnWscWRqLv-CUhjRkvyIB3sb5U5ybx4hFNXcYkxGlokJnVFAEF/s1600/CARD3+10-22+Aw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72a2oz8voX97cFl4LaF6uBikknXYSynIXRoWj71F_dsqx0PxNa0D8dL1SzrXfhEhJ26OCZbZY72RiZUfG9CXgpUvN9oJnWscWRqLv-CUhjRkvyIB3sb5U5ybx4hFNXcYkxGlokJnVFAEF/s400/CARD3+10-22+Aw.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <b>Deluca Gallery</b> is located at 359 Commercial St.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">next to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <b>Harbor Lounge</b>, on the waterfront.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The piece above is a scene from seafood stand in Wellfleet Harbor on a brisk September evening as the sky began to clear after a rainy afternoon. At 36 x 24, it is one of my larger paintings to date.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This scene is from a small seside town in Maine where my friend Miranda recently bought a cottage. Peeping out the window on a cold rainy morning this scene greeted me. There is something about the stolid, boxy house, secure against the wet and chill dawn, that gave me a sense of peace and comfort I wanted to convey in this painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Sorry for being out of sight recently--I suffered a hard drive disaster with my Macbook crashing completely. I lost a lot of data, both images of paintings and images to create paintings. Coming back online now with more disc space, improved software and a reliable backup system.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the most recent of my Boston Esplanade paintings. On a gorgeous summer evening, when all of Boston seemed to be enjoying the balmy waterfront, the sunlight lingered late with a palpable golden glow. The idyllic scene inspired a classically referenced treatment of sky, clouds, and trees that merges into the 21st century architecture along the Charles River. I intended some gentle irony in depicting the partiers with a certain posed revelry, reminiscent of a liesure-class tableau in a painting from the romantic era. But there is definitively a democratized modern American twist. Interposed between the figures and the verdant natural background are the ubiquitous machinery and toys of our western consumer society.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqkq3IVrtCzNdZXVWuP1nYxR_-F81TjOuL5cD_7CFDfI6xOS-uIxbK20hv4JyZUF1Rns-WLwr4tc5SEeLjoB6CYTn71jp8SHDhBBUQOvQBm9cu0hsHwA1JVqRpWX0Ybe1rZ_7YdGM1ujC/s1600/Gold+frame+Angle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqkq3IVrtCzNdZXVWuP1nYxR_-F81TjOuL5cD_7CFDfI6xOS-uIxbK20hv4JyZUF1Rns-WLwr4tc5SEeLjoB6CYTn71jp8SHDhBBUQOvQBm9cu0hsHwA1JVqRpWX0Ybe1rZ_7YdGM1ujC/s200/Gold+frame+Angle.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">My frames are made of architectural moldings, so they always convey a sense of mass, but the latest design goes a step further. It references a classic perspective-angle frame in burnished gold, but reduces it to a wide angular tray fold with unmistakable presence. I will experiment with different metallic colors and edge patterns that compliment specific paintings as the technique evolves.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Weekend trips have lately yeilded some great material for future art. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">My friend Miranda Barrett spent the summer fixing up a newly aquired cottage in Old Orchard Beach Maine. It was wonderful to visit, see her project, and hang on the beach, but I also had a chance to visit an amazing nearby venue. Prout's Neck is a stubby peninsula just across the cove, and the site of Winslow Homer's studio. Homer created amazing iconic landscapes and figure studies in the late 19th century. He retired to a converted carriage house on the cliffs of Prouts Neck in the 1880s, and did some of his best and most mature work painting the surrounding rocky seascape. It is easy to see what attracted him to this place. There is a cliff trail that winds along the Atlantic, where the views of the rocky shore, barrier islands, and turbulent New England sky is stunning. I'm very excited about creating my own paintings from the images I collected.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lori Theriault is an amazing potter, fellow artist, one of my oldest friends, whom I've known since our salad days of working on theater productions together. You can see her beautiful ceramic creations on her blog through the following link:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://crazygreenstudios.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://crazygreenstudios.blogspot.com/</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lori recently started a new blog called "Sexy Food" </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://yumsexyfood.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://yumsexyfood.blogspot.com/</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm excited to tell a good story to contribute to it, and I'm posting it here concurrently.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, To my great surprise I found a vendor with fresh sour cherries from Maine. I’ve loved sour cherries since my mom picked them for pies from the tree in our back yard while I was growing up. The season is very short, and the fruit very fragile, so they are seldom if ever seen in grocery store produce sections! However the luscious little red orbs are well worth the effort to obtain. Lori Theriault and I used to pick them together at Maryland and Virginia orchards when we both lived in Washington DC, but there the season is over and done by mid July. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After browning the meat I removed it, then sauteed a couple yellow onions with some garlic in the meat-flavored oil/sugar mixture. Then the cherries and meat all went back into the pot with a generous splash of balsamic vinegar, and some seasonings of coriander nutmeg. and salt. The uber-juicy cherries provided much of the cooking liquid required. Goat is a spicy and firm fibered meat that requires longer cooking to become tender. I simmered this down for over an hour, till the mixture had thickened nicely and the meat was chewy tender. Tangy tart cherries proved an excellent compliment to richly flavored goat. To make the dish go farther, I then added a couple diced sweet potatoes, three small chopped jalepenos for some heat, and some lightly ground walnuts.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A cup of red wine (I chose a Malbec, but a Pinot Noir would have worked as well) and a little water provided enough additional liquid to cook the sweet potatoes. Now the goat wast definitely tipsy, and happy! It took another 15 or so minutes of simmering for the veggies to get tender and the stew to thicken again.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The rice, I cooked separately, a nice blend of brown and wild. All the leftovers got mixed together in a wonderful melange that will provide a few more delicious meals. But for this dinner, a nice presentation was in order. Our entree featured a bed of brown and wild rice, topped with slow cooked sour cherries, goat, sweet potatoes and walnuts--and of course some fresh veggie garnish with a cherry on top! A glass of the Malbec to wash it down and a backdrop of a recently completed painting. Perfect!</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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16 x 12 Casein on muslin covered plywood</td></tr>
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The second is a simple but evocative composition depicting a rocky shoreline in summer morning fog. This scene was shot on a hike on the Horseneck Beach State Preserve near Fall River. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both of these pieces loose a significant amount of subtlety to the camera lense. The tones appear much more nuanced when viewed in person. Come see them in Providence this weekend!</span><br />
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Boston is gorgeous this time of year, and it can be hard to find time for painting! But I'm collecting LOTS of scenes to paint, whether now or later. I've been focusing on coastal and nautical images, recording my first summer experience living in Boston. Here's some pieces I've been working on: (click to enlarge) I will get these posted in the inventory/price list soon!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RACE POINT LIGHT FROM HERRING COVE,<br />
16" X 12", CASEIN ON MUSLIN COVERED PLY, 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This kind of lighthouse scene can be formulaic unless there is something unusual in the interpretation of color, form and/or structure. I'm pleased with the reflection of light and movement in the water here--this series is a great chance for me to work on various ways to render the sea, a good artists' challenge. I think the tall bank of clouds lying tall against the horizon also provides a good sense of place. Years of visit to the tip of Cape Cod have taught me how weather systems linger on the edge of the mainland. I've favored a salmon and turquoise palette in this series too, but this is probably the most intense example.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DOCKHOUSE AND HOIST, CHARLES RIVER<br />
24' X 16", CASEIN PAINT ON MUSLIN COVERED PLYWOOD, 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>This is one of the most multi-layered pieces I've done to date, which is partly why I rendered it in a more graphically representational style, though still focusing strongly on elements of reflected light. An achingly beautiful late afternoon in early summer from the Esplanade, just east of the Community Boathouse. The hoist anchors this scene as the centerpiece of a story about boating, from the magical play of light in the sails, to the motorized patrol skiff. I really like how the lights atop the hoist look like devilish little cormorant wings, ready to magically transport the hoist to a shoreline somewhere near Hogwarts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LONGFELLOW BRIDGE AND SAILBOAT REEF, CHARLES RIVER<br />
12" X 9" CASEIN ON MUSLIN COVERED PLY, 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Also from the Esplanade, but the west side, showing the boathouse reef against the distinctive pepper-grinder towers of the Longfellow Bridge. This is a smaller piece, and the richest and most painterly palette so far in this series. Pleased here with the deep pools of colors and shimmering serene surface of the river.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PTOWN BREAKWATER, SCRUB, AND COASTGUARD LIGHT<br />
24" X 12", CASEIN ON MUSLIN COVERED PLY, 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>This is dangerously close to a kind of pretty postcard scene that gives me a bit of the heebie geebies. But there is something about the scrub bush dead center, (hints of burgeoning spring leaf notwithstanding,) that pulls it away from a mere bucolic landscape--I hope! This is another Provincetown locale, heading towards the rotary at the end of Commercial street, on the way to the starting point of the breakwater. It's a ritual of my visits to the cape to hike across the rocks and out to the lighthouse. For an all-day hike, you can head all the way across Herring Cove and Hatches Harbor (don't try it at high tide!) to Race Point light (depicted in the top painting) before circling back to town along route 6A.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ON THE QUAY, DEEP TWILIGHT<br />
16" X 12" CASEIN ON MUSLIN COVERED PLYWOOD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Another Massachusetts waterfront painting I've previously posted, but wanted to include here. While wandering home from a hike on Plum Island, I got a bit lost and found myself at this dead end. A beautiful scene at the end of sunset but with an incongruous light pole sprouting signs with regulations, warnings, and statements of liability limitation. Again playing with the conventional notion of painterly focal points, but adding a bit of commentary on bureaucracy and our litigious society. Hopefully kind of cool and pretty too.<br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ancient Murals</span></div><div>More years ago than I care to recall, I did a mural for the home of some clients in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Their house had outer rooms circling a central core structure. Our staging conceit was that this core was a Roman Ruin inside a modern outer framework. Below is a picture of younger yours truly posing on the living-room side of a completed section. Depicting the dimension of rough-hewn stonework on a flat surface was a scenic artists' delight! The second pcture shows me working from a beam on one of the tall corners sections. Residential murals are a natural bridge between theatrical backdrops and residential artistic painting. I'm interested in doing more!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCSsWl8FZhe0PLwnURzUq_qy5F8vQP_hg7v2yvE_FFJi7w5PufSORQIKipJmJm0JFfNQiU4a8I_ntsyoG74mGSGTj9nfVyHhAbk7PDcCJfO7UPpFQBHPxAGlPB0lad7ONLocrZB701mlD/s1600/Wilder+Mural001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCSsWl8FZhe0PLwnURzUq_qy5F8vQP_hg7v2yvE_FFJi7w5PufSORQIKipJmJm0JFfNQiU4a8I_ntsyoG74mGSGTj9nfVyHhAbk7PDcCJfO7UPpFQBHPxAGlPB0lad7ONLocrZB701mlD/s320/Wilder+Mural001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Despite earlier predictions of hot sunny weather, we were a little worried that the festival might be postponed due to rain. However the overcast skies kept the weather cool and comfortable, and by later in the afternoon the sun began to peek out.<br />
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High School Park, in Elkins Park PA (just outside the Philly city limits) was created on the site of the town's original high school campus. The big old building was imploded decades ago, leaving a hilltop meadow surrounded by beautiful mature trees. Eventually the site became a municipal park, and began hosting an annual arts and crafts festival in 1995.<br />
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This was the first time I transported my new booth assembly. Everything went smoothly, and I just finished my set-up by the official opening time of the event. Next time it will go much faster! I look a bit like a carnival barker here, but that's actually a screwdriver in my hand, not a pointer.<br />
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What really pleased me most was selling two pieces from my urban settings series. This is the subject matter I find most rewarding, so I was glad that people seeing my work for the first time found it interesting too. Rather than painting pretty scenes, I prefer finding structure, beauty and drama in gritty everyday settings. Great to hear comments from people who got the concept and liked it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sunset Strip Mall USA", urban settings series</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Race St. Taxi at the Ben Franklin"<br />
Urban Settings Series<br />
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It was fun to indulge my old carpentry skills in making frames for several pieces before the festival. I know some collectors who like to hang paintings without frames, saying that a painting should speak for itself and stand on it's own. To me, this works if there are many painting together on a large wall, or if the wall space around the piece is very tight. However, I like the way a frame creates a portal into the world of the painting, besides just setting it off and giving more weight and presence to the work. I've created a couple unique "floater" designs that allow the painted edges of the canvas to show within the frame rim. Below are some pieces in frames, next to views of the canvas only<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Three Lanes to Jersey"<br />
Reverse angle Faux Red Mahogany Floater, about 22 x 18</td></tr>
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Salmon Stained Maple Box Floater, about 20 x 14<br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weather reports look fantastic for the Arts in the Park Festival this weekend. Looking forward to seeing old friends in Philadephia and taking part in this 16th annual event that has become a mainstay in the Elkins Park community. Here's a link if you want more information: </span><a href="http://www.highschoolpark.org/pages/arts.shtml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arts in the Park</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also you can <a href="http://brucestarrpaintings.blogspot.com/p/feed-starving-artist.html">Link to my inventory</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with price list. (last chance to purchase online before things go to the festival!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week is all about final preparations as I take my show on the road! I put my brush down last week after completing a couple more paintings:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spring comes late to New England, but it comes with a passion. Here is a painting of a rambling old beach house in Provincetown with large twin crabapple trees in the front yard that just exploded into blossom.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this bright sunny day, the sun created deep contrasts of light and shadow, most vivid on the bleached green shingles and fragile blossoms. In the deepest corner of blue-purple shade, two green adirondack chairs peep out at the world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next piece is small in size but big in scope. The scene is on Plum Island, a coastal community north of Boston, photographed in fall when the reeds turn a rich golden ochre. The tidal marshes creates a maze of snaking channels at the mouth of Parker River as it empties into Plum Island Sound.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, back to some pieces with a little more of the urban flavor I like. This is a quirky painting that I wasn't sure I would take to the festival. Its a view looking upwards from the Schuylkill Canal Path in Philadelphia's Manayunk neighborhood. The buildings date from a period when the riverfront and canal were lined with small factories, and smaller homes for the workers rose on the adjacent hills. The network of power lines and utilitarian structures creates a geometric grid and and unusual skyward perspective. The scene is certainly industrial, but the scale and age of the infrastructure create an oddly human sensibility, and a sense that unstoppable time has moved beyond this place, though it still struggles along through the wake of years.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a somewhat similar theme in a more residential setting. What originally caught my eye was the queer but oddly compelling color combination of the house and willow branches, under a moody grey-yellow overcast sky. The street was once one of some pretension, now mostly down at heel. But the willow still stands with outsized dignity, though clipped to allow the passage of traffic, and growing a little more more decrepit with the passing decades.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will have some artist-made frames available at Arts in the Park. The right frame creates a portal into the world of the painting, adding depth, richness, and a sense of transition. My compositions usually fill the picture plane completely, and have wrapped and painted edges, so "floater" frames are usually the best choice. I will offer two main types:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a simple box floater in hardwood Maple with a light flesh stain. The inside return rail is Van Dyke brown. The clean lines keep the emphasis on the painting while bringing it forward from the wall and adding focus.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If neither of these match your style, you can get amazing custom frame profiles and expert advice from Cindy Blackwood at: </span><br />
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</tbody></table>Last was a working getaway weekend, with a visit to Provincetown, a little break before a big push for my show on June 5. (see menu bar above) Very nice to be on Cape Cod, lots of galleries to visit, amazing light, inspiration for new paintings, and catching up with my friend Mark Taylor.<br />
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Mark is opening a new eatery in the Aquarium Mall Food Court called "Batata" (it means "sweet potato" in Portuguese), featuring a great menu of gourmet fries and sauces done Provincetown style, and a variety of other entrees/items. Mark's spot-on taste and food-savvy experience in the restaurant scene should make this place a hit, so check it out if you're in P'town this summer. I will post a link when available!<br />
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With spring finally taking hold in New England, it was also a perfect opportunity to get new material for paintings. Below are some things I've been working on:<br />
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The palette of my work has been intensifying over the last several months, so rich spring colors provide a welcome opportunity for experimentation. Full strength casein pigments are extremely potent, as you can see in the Ultamarine Blue base I used for the water in the painting below.<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The scene is along the Esplanade near the boathouse, a jewel in the "Emerald Necklace" of Boston's park systems on the Charles River. In summer the river will be studded with sails, but in the stil-bitter chill of an April Sunday morning, the little boat stopped at this dock was a lone voyager. The pale dormant grass and leafless trees seemed to make the reflective blue water all the more vivid, so I chose to render it with the intensity you see. Too much? Please comment!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whenever visiting P'town, I love watching the sun set over the bay from Herring Cove. It rained this day in Boston, but was beautiful on the cape; by nightfall the low storm clouds still hovered over the mainland to create a deep, brooding backdrop for the disappearing day. The water glistens brightly even as the beach turns inky purple. The asphalt, the broken bit of dune fencing and signage silhouetted in the foreground lends the bit of human intervention I relish. These types of colors are a big challenge to photograph, the camera eye misses much of the subtlety of the deepest tones. Too ominous? Comments? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several people have said my Indiana roots are showing with this painting. True, but I'm fascinated with this image for a number of reasons. An abandoned town in rural Delaware, a dusty crossroads amid brown corn and soybean fields, at a defunct gas station and de facto junkyard, I found this grizzled relic still standing like a sentry for a bygone era. I've placed it in a gentler green landscape.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The iconic red tractor connects to our American mythology of individualism and the family farm, but the bleak metal guts of this soldier are mechanically unsentimental. I believe the hood and grill plating were originally painted silver, now bleached and rusting down to red primer. The engine and body are better preserved, still coated with a sheen of ancient axle grease and manure, enough to support a thin layer of bright moss in a few spots. There is a skeletal, muscular quality about him, like a raw side of meat. Something from the insect world too, a grasshopper or mantis, and I can even see the monster from "Aliens" leering a little. Comments welcome!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early Spring Morning from My Back Door" 12" x 16", Casein paint on muslin covered plywood</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though I love painting twilight scenes, bright morning light charms too. Coffee in hand (of course) I opened the back door in March to find rich sunlight streaming between the houses along the rear street, creating lovely bright stripes in the asphalt. Two houses, and the back fence with a winter-bare vine framed the view nicely, and a few power lines fed my utility fetish. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">June is coming fast, so I am working hard to complete a good selection of paintings for the Arts in the Park festival June 5th. Hope to see you in High School Park. (see "Juried Show" link in the menu bar).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More Recent Work:</span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Deep Forest Trail, Twisted Tree</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">24” x 18” casein paint on muslin over plywood</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m not so interested in painting dramatic scenery as in finding drama, nuance, and form in everyday scenes. Here I wanted to create a painting where the only structural elements were trees on a densely forested path. The main focus is on the unusually twisted tree to the right, which I got a little obsessed with. The forest canopy is and interesting skein of branches, leaves and filtered light in pale greens and soft yellows. The forest floor and trail are very soft tones of taupe and faded terra-cotta. This painting is probably most like a theatrical backdrop than any other I’ve done.</span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Bruce Starrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579980139425181635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085897375801454925.post-25800263539571811062011-04-15T11:05:00.000-07:002011-04-16T18:09:51.206-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Manayunk is one of Philadelphia's older districts, with narrow streets winding up the steep hills rising along the Schuykill River. Some parts are gentrified, some not. This scene from a summer night seemed to capture something elemental about the flavor of life in the neighborhood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Most often I choose urban scenes with a little grit to them, but this trail through overgrown vines and bramble also caught my eye, especially the arch formed by the trees. It was an October afternoon, with a somewhat overcast sky that imbued the vegetation with blue and purple hues. I'm especially pleased with how the riot of branches in the bramble came out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A couple people have told me they know exactly where the photo for this painting was taken, and they were both wrong. This speaks to the universal nature of the scene; it could be pretty much anywhere in the entire country. I love painting scenes at twilight, and this one worked especially well with the intensity of sunset competing with the vividness of neon and florescent signage. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I love painting bridges and this is my favorite, the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia. The massive anchor abutments are classically Roman, contrasting nicely with the classically industrial-age rivetted steel criss-cross beams of the span and cable towers. Like the Eiffel Tower, it has a sinewy grace and balance lacking in both older and more modern structures. This view is a little unusual, the roadway from the pedestrian walkway with a slightly fish-eyed perspective of the Philly terminal abutment, the lane-signal archway, and the first tall tower in the twilight haze.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This past winter was brutal in the Boston area, with storm after storm dumping snow into our neighborhoods. Sunset one afternoon in early February when the melting had just begun, found more slushy mess to contend with, but created a vividly reflective palette of pink, salmon, and yellow in the cold streetscape.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZynYcd7ftu6QbtBpeAa6uKpN0Axb1EZmupm20qcCKIVLSHmyKr_FK4X6FZbH5jXv6xM9qqHRuMig-Wabbhn4z95bbFYymkwPd_ChyKQisvnsqDH0GZsn3cnv31ahvv_-zxLeCBlIOuqw/s1600/Wheatfield%252C+Lone+Tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZynYcd7ftu6QbtBpeAa6uKpN0Axb1EZmupm20qcCKIVLSHmyKr_FK4X6FZbH5jXv6xM9qqHRuMig-Wabbhn4z95bbFYymkwPd_ChyKQisvnsqDH0GZsn3cnv31ahvv_-zxLeCBlIOuqw/s320/Wheatfield%252C+Lone+Tree.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lone Tree and Wheatfield</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">24" x 12" casein paint on muslin over plywood</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The photograph for this painting was taken on one of my many bicycle rides on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Though much suburban development has overtaken this beautiful area, there are still wide spaces where farmland and quiet backroads dominate the landscape. Coming over a gentle rise, this simple but dramatic view unfolded, with woods on one side giving way to a clear view of a golden wheatfield and a single tree, in the warm late afternoon sunlight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The day after Christmas, 2010, was the first blizzard of the season. Hiking with a friend along the Charles River in Boston, I took the picture that inspired this painting. The palette is more subdued, almost monochromatic, than most of my current work, but it helps capture the atmosphere of cold wind and beating snow we felt that wintry afternoon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A smaller piece, this captures an unexpected view of an old railway station on an abandoned train line in Bryn Athyn PA, north of Philly. The area is now preserved land and the rail line a hiking trail. Coming out of the deep green woods, one sees this station illuminated from behind, in the light of the clearing for the tiny town. A touch of the urban still intrudes, with a car parked in the side lot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ef3RFco2ybGuItUnJQZqmiOrIoeX8IVp_2AijCL8XU3hLwyu2raGJ1cG752eA3kNbEOIr411jlolDsZzHfCn1iFAiWa5RRIC2NbzMIlnUCGhYX9Rj57ct_6vifzjGc7CoS0v7YUHi1Ho/s1600/Manayunk+Church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ef3RFco2ybGuItUnJQZqmiOrIoeX8IVp_2AijCL8XU3hLwyu2raGJ1cG752eA3kNbEOIr411jlolDsZzHfCn1iFAiWa5RRIC2NbzMIlnUCGhYX9Rj57ct_6vifzjGc7CoS0v7YUHi1Ho/s320/Manayunk+Church.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Manayunk Church, Night</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">14" x 18", Casein paint on gesso board</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of my first small-scale paintings. Gesso board is much better suited to oil paints than waterbased Casein, a fact I soon discovered and so switched to muslin stretched on plywood. However, I'm still fond of this dramatic night time view of an urban church with lights blazing in the darkened city neighborhood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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