Sick of winter yet? Here is Lake Erie this morning: Pretty for January but not on St. Patrick’s day.
Cleveland, Vermilion, OH
Spring?
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Yesterday’s storm highlighted–as if it was necessary–once again that this is the Winter From Hell. Our furnace stopped working during the wee hours and the high today is in the low teens. It could have been worse. Yesterday’s terrific winds might have downed trees and disrupted power. Hopefully, that was winter’s last hurrah. I can remember winters with colder snaps and worse snows, but the unending string of heavy storms we’ve experienced makes this winter one of the worse if not the worst I’ve seen.
Bio, Vermilion, OH
Confirmation at the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo Ohio
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We drove through the snow to the magnificent Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo for my son’s confirmation. The eighth-grade class from Keith’s school–St. Paul’s in Norwalk–along with several other schools were confirmed together in solemn ceremony. The Toledo archdiocese is currently without a bishop but the presiding priests performed ably. I had never been to…
Bio, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
In the studio March 2, 2014
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Here is some work from this morning. The bulk of the day was given over to removing three rooms of carpet from our basement. We got water in the basement during that sudden thaw 10 days ago (we’re back in the deep freeze now, though). It was only an inch or so but enough to…
Bio, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 2/23/2014
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The large (42″ x 68″), unfinished painting is titled Conversation. The smaller (36″ x 48″) painting, Whispers, was finished yesterday. Two paintings of people talking while outdoors? A coincidence (I think), although I have been surprised in the past on discovering groups of paintings that share the same unplanned theme. A few years ago I was surprised…
Bio, Vermilion, OH
Snow–bah!
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Bio, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Winter stays center stage
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The winter of ’14 has been the coldest in recent memory. Lake Erie remains frozen, as can be seen in this recent photo from my bedroom balcony. Take cheer! Summer will return and transform the lake into scenes like this one:
Bio, Paintings, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 1/26/214
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Considering today is Keith’s birthday, it’s fitting to be working on paintings for which he posed. Both paintings are almost finished. My wife laughs when I say this because I am notorious for reworking ‘finished’ paintings. I’m liable to pick up a finished work at any time and start in if I see something that…