new faces

new faces

my granddaughter came to visit over thanksgiving and we went to greenville, sc to check out the museum there. they had a great collection of jasper johns work, which was so inspiring. we shopped at a little store that had old photos, slides, match books, and a lot of...
plein air during film festival

plein air during film festival

tryon international film festival was this past weekend, nov. 23/24. TPS (tryon painters and sculptors) set up four stations around town with canvases that had sketches of some of our town’s icons. jake and i volunteered to staff the one where morris the horse...
what have i been doing?

what have i been doing?

getting to better know my new town of tryon, nc and meet people here i have been involved in a few things. currently i am volunteering at the tryon history museum and at tryon painters and sculptors (TPS), which is a membership gallery/gift shop with classes and...
polk county history museum

polk county history museum

in an effort to get to know my new surroundings i volunteer at the polk county history museum. there i found, hidden in the back store room a leather bound photo album from the mid 1800s. reminding me of the velvet photo album. i could not help but wonder, who this...
brushes

brushes

experimenting with different brushes in procreate to create these “fragment paintings”. starting with a canvas of 4000 px square, i bring in a photo, add a layer and paint on some color, then close the photo layer. this used the wet acrylic brush…....
“on the block”

“on the block”

anthony sylvestry, joey manopella, veto montalto, michael marachia,  … these were some boys on the block back in the early 1960s.  not sure if i am spelling their names correctly, i hung out with veto (and his sister vita) more that the other boys, they were a...