a great place to visit

Here is a painting of The Old Mill Inn, located in Hatfield, Ma.  In addition to being a beautiful place to stay the owners are now offering local artwork, including mine, for sale at affordable prices.  The last two post paintings as well as this one and others are now on sale at this location.  Check out their site   @oldmillinn.ma

covered bridge

Nothing says New England like a covered bridge.  This is the one in Stanley Park in Westfield, Ma.  A little breath of spring for our unusually cool April.

Area Paintings

I have begun a series of local landscapes, you may remember the Keystone Bridge painting, in the January 2012 archives.  At that time I had thought to start these but never did.  This one is The Grist Mill in Sudbury, Ma. built in 1929 and still in use today! 

The Mechanical Mouser in the Technical Topper

He has been delivered and will be on display at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, which is the newest building of the Ouadrangle.  The exhibit, Steampunk Springfield will open March 22nd.  There will be many of Springfield's historic icons in steampunk style, and over at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum there will be a steampunk fashion exhibit.  So if your local you might want to go down and check it out.  If you visit before May first you can vote on your favorite one.

Our cat is around five feet tall, and an assembledge of wood, metal,sculpting materials, and found objects.  When we (my husband and I) began working on it we thought we would gather actual gears and gauges to assemble into a cat.  The spirit of Suess soon took over and we began sculpting gears to look like the parts in the wonderful contraptions found in the stories of Dr. Suess.  It became more about what the characeters might do if they decided to get steampunked.

Detailed views of "Saint John Hears the Voice of God"

Here are some of the details of the tryptich, first the left, center, and right panels.  They are painted of paper with singed edges then applied to wood.  I won't go into great detail about the religious meanings of these details.  Those of you who are familure with the story and the icons of medievil painting will see them.  If you have further interest a simple internet search will provide the answers, or leave a comment and I will get back to you.

I will tell you a project of this kind involves more research than painting!