I have been a member of the Dalton Arts Guild since I was in hight school. They have always been extremely supportive of my artwork. I got my first award for art from them, which was a 1st Place Student Award for a clay sculpture called "Cautious Tapir", that was 10 years ago. Last Saturday I was awarded Best in Show for my "December Maple" painting. This is my most satisfying award to date because of my feelings toward this piece. It has become one of my favorite piece's that I have done so far. Most especially because I feel I finally captured my lovely fiance's essence in a painting. It is also very dear to me that they chose the painting of mine that most captures the Berkshire's they way I think of it. It is a quite place and a solemn place. Thank you again to the Dalton Arts Guild. The show is in Miller's Art Supply at 205 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is also on display and for sale.
A Winter's Dream , 17" x 11", Oil on Paper on Masonite, 2015. Back in August, the 6th to be exact, Sarah and I welcomed our baby girl, Dagmar, into the world. She is now turning 6 months old and I am just now getting around to posting the first blog post since the summer. She's a lot of work, but not enough to excuse my laziness about this blog. Anyways, for the past three years I have done a Nisse painting as my Winter card, but for some reason I just wasn't in the mood to come up with a new Nisse painting, and I just didn't feel like I had a great composition in mind this winter. So I looked to my new muse. I took a picture one morning of her sleeping, and worked in some creatures, new and old, real and surreal into the winter landscape around her. I've always wondered what she dreams, I can't imagine her dreams look like this, but I thought it was a cool idea. Also, I have been doing a One Sketch A Day sketchbook since New Year's, so ...
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