Find a Familiar Face Part 2

the 3 Sisters:


Elena with Alex:



Elena with Matt


Matt with Alex:


Betty


Uncle Don:


Clay:


Gene:


Bruce:


Nathan:


Olivia:


April


April again


Anastasia


Matt by himself

Find a Familiar Face

This cuddly critter reminds me of April. Here's an idea: post a photo of an animal that reminds you of another member of the family. Nate, you go last!

Winter Catch Up

We've had snow on the ground since Christmas. The biggest storm we had was 24" of snow in one day, but the problem is that it hasn't gotten warm enough to melt the snow from previous storms, so we have about 3-4 ft of snow built up on the sides of the streets and driveways. I was up on the roof shoveling a couple feet of snow off before an ice storm and have gotten a good work out shoveling the past weeks.



Here are some icicles. We had some end up being 5 feet long and a foot diameter.


This is the view out the studio after one of the snowfalls early in the season.



I have been getting into the studio a bit. This is one of the paintings I'm working on. I'm trying my best to keep the painting going during the teaching semester. Not always an easy thing to do.

I recently had a studio visit by someone that runs the art department at a private high school in the hartford area. They have a visiting artist program where they bring in an outside artist for one week, once a year to create a project with all of the their art students helping. I was one of four finalists for the position at the time of the studio visit and have since been awarded the opportunity. You get a stipend 0f $3,000, and are given funds for the project and travel expenses. That will happen In January of 2012. It should be fun.

Joy is giving a series of public lectures at the Libraries in Madison and Guilford. She gets crowds of about 200 people coming to these. Her lectures this time are on Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Georgia Okeeffe, and Charles Sheeler. She's also teaching an upper division Art History Course on American Painting at Southern Connecticut State University and a graduate course titled "Art and Revolution" at Albertus Magnus.