Red Velvet : oil : 5x5"

The wrapper is just starting to peel away from this moist Red Velvet cupcake. Get ready to sink your teeth through that perfect swirl of icing, as your taste buds start to tingle in anticipation of the moist cake hidden beneath

This velvety little oil painting will be at the Affordable Art Fair at Montclair Museum this year

Saturday June 2, 10-5pm
Affordable Art Fair
Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Ave
Montclair, NJ 07042
www.montclair-art.com

A Small Fortune - oil 5x5"

Metro 28 has made its way to Ramapo College for the summer term. Stop by to sample all the mini works of art

April 21 – June 29
Metro 28 : City Without Walls
Ramapo College
505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430
www.ramapo.edu

Poofs in Porcelain : oil : 5x5"

I am really happy with the texture and brushstrokes in this little still life. The cheez poofs are good and crunchy and the slick sparkle of the china bowl is captured in simple clean strokes of paint

I didn’t over noodle my Cheez Doodles

And I LOVE painting this bowl – I have a feeling this will not be its last appearance

crunchy!

Working from a living, breathing model, with their own humor, quirks and personality is such a fantastic change from painting stale donuts and year old cheez doodles!

So for the past year or so, I have been ditching the doodles and sneaking off to a life drawing session on Friday mornings with the NJ Sketch Club.

The intense concentration required to look and draw for short bursts always requires more energy than I imagine and the challenge of trying to capture the essentials without overworking the drawing remains ever elusive. But it is these addictive qualities that keep me coming back for more

It is a fun, and sometimes frustrating way to spend a Friday morning, but I am always fascinating to see the different interpretations of my fellow sketchers.

Stop by and Meet the Artists this Saturday, May 5th 2-5pm

Exhibiting Artists: John Wolff, Florence Wint, Peter Allen, Jo Bradney, Claire Simon, Theresa Kubert, Ivan Bratko, Anne Picker, Lawrence Wlazlo, Frank Thropp, and Joel Tidey

April 27 – June 8 2012
NJ Sketch Club Presents : The Figure ~ Line, Form, & Shape
Art @ 1275 Studio & Gallery
1275 Bloomfield Ave Building 1, Unit 3
Fairfield NJ 07004
www.artat1275.com

Saved You One : charcoal and pastel : 22x30"

For April and June, I will have a solo show of work surrounding the acquisition, preparation, consumption and disposal of food.

The work captures those brief moments that often slip past unnoticed in our fast food lives, illuminating the things we have seen a thousand times, while cleaning the kitchen, preparing dinner or taking out the trash.

Thirty drawings and prints will be on display in the Madison Gallery of Morristown Memorial Hospital – the main corridor leading to the cafeteria. I wonder if my pictures will change the choices people make once they get there!

April 1 – June 3, 2012

Madison Gallery : Morristown Memorial Hospital
100 Madison Ave
Morristown, NJ

www.atlantichealth.org/morristown