A new home for my brushes

In happy news, I'm soon to be a member of the Waltham Mills Artists Association, and the proud new occupant of a beautiful studio space. I'm so excited about the space and all the work I will be able to do there, I can barely contain it.

On an unrelated note, I will also be teaching painting classes at the Boston Center for Adult Education, starting in September. You can still enroll!

And as a third, and final, note, children are tricky subjects. And so I continue to practice:

Studies/sketches

I went landscape painting this afternoon with a friend in Cambridge. The weather was odd for landscape painting, as it was rather hazy, and the light bright but not consistent. But it's good to be painting landscapes again fairly regularly, as it's been awhile and I definitely feel out of practice.

Here is my study of the end of the Weeks bridge:

And here's a sketch of a pond I did the other day:

Duck soup

So, here we are, yet another in-progress image of the latest painting:

I don't know about you, but I have grown tired of seeing more pictures of it. So, to break the tedium, here are some arbitrary and silly sketches I found today in an old sketch book while looking for something else:

The second one is my favorite. The ducks are from a time when I was working on a farm in Ireland and spending a fair amount on time chasing the very silly ducks out of various gardens. To be perfectly honest, I don't care much for drawing, I'd rather be painting, so most of my drawings, excepting those done at school, are very quick sketches, like these.