2012-04-18 17:21
I think I might have to change Kodiak's name to Houdini. Despite working to dismantle the fence all winter, she has made some amazing progress on it in the last few days; she broke out on Mo… Read More
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I am a working artist living in upstate NY with my family. My blog deals with my art, my work habits and describes how I balance painting, exhibiting and family.
2012-04-07 21:58
Well, The Painter's Farm is really coming along here. It is now an LLC, there are tax ID numbers, a shitload of paperwork going on and don't even talk to me about taxes, exemptions, deductio… Read More
2012-03-14 18:29
Turns out the best way for me to avoid post show meltdowns, is to pick up 3 unbearably cute baby goats on the morning after the opening reception.But let me back up here. A few years ago I m… Read More
2012-03-01 20:49
So less than 24 hours after I mentioned here that my dairy goat Kodiak was hopefully with child, I found her with stuff coming out of her bottom. The placenta, to be precise, and a variety o… Read More
2012-02-20 19:53
Barn Study #500, 4"x4" Oil on Panel, 2012Well, as you can see I have made a few changes around here! About time, I guess, right? I started this blog in February 2006 and wrote pretty regular… Read More
2012-01-26 00:13
Magenta Pool, 18"x18" Oil on Wood Panel, 2010Sadly, I have finally decided that I just really can't go to the Vermont Studio Center this January. It truly pains me because one of the visitin… Read More
2012-01-26 00:05
Landscape Study #300, 5"x7", Oil on Cradled Panel, 2010I am an equal opportunity shopper so I am not going to tell anyone here not to spend your money during this shopping season at a mall o… Read More
2012-01-25 18:38
My 2nd birthday, 1966.Several years ago when my mom was moving she gave me some boxes of things she had saved from my childhood. This was the first hint to me that she was such a pack rat… Read More
2012-01-25 18:37
Hi everyone! Just wanted to let all you lovely happy birthday wishers know that I will have to announce the winner of the drawing later on tonight. I forgot that my assistant/daughter has sw… Read More
2012-01-25 18:36
My son wrote down all 62 names (ten more than last year's giveaway!!) on a piece of paper, I cut them all out and here they are waiting for princess to sweep into the room and choose one;)Gi… Read More
2012-01-25 18:35
Landscape Study, #305, 6"x4", Oil on Panel, 2010I ignored almost all things art in the last few weeks and it was lovely. It's not like I have been terribly busy in the studio this last year… Read More
2012-01-25 18:34
Landscape Study #304, 6"x6", Oil on Cradled Panel, 2010For some reason I have been assuming that I don't have much going on in the coming year, but after sitting down and looking at the even… Read More
2012-01-25 18:34
I have been collecting old family photos (other family's photos, not mine) as reference material for the 'People You Know' project for several years and now have a crazyville, hoarder-like p… Read More
2012-01-25 18:34
Red Scarf Day, 2010, Oil on Panel, 18"x14"Well, somehow January has almost completely flitted right by without me even once getting to my easel. I should be embarrassed to admit that, especi… Read More
2012-01-25 13:40
In the past few years I have told the stories here of the birth of each of my daughters (here and here), and since tomorrow is my son's birthday, I figured I better dust off my blogger passw… Read More
2012-01-25 13:39
It took me awhile to accept that what I was hearing from the oldster's chicken coop last winter was a rooster crowing. I was convinced that it was just the crowing from the hen house in the… Read More
2012-01-25 13:39
I have quite a bit of work that I should be doing, including several shows to prepare for, yet I am having quite a lot of trouble getting uninterrupted time in the studio. I blame the kids f… Read More
2012-01-25 13:39
White House, 10"x8" Oil on Panel, 2011After frittering away quite a lot of days lately I am finally getting down to business but omg, why must I always procrastinate???? SO much work to do i… Read More
2012-01-25 13:38
Last winter I noticed this on our property:Then I got a pretty good shot of a beautiful Pileated Woodpecker who was getting busy with an ash tree in our front yard:He made several holes in t… Read More
2012-01-25 13:38
And again, weeks have slipped by since I have posted here. Sigh. In my defense however, I have been pretty busy. Half my time has been spent in the garden and the other half has involved a l… Read More
2012-01-25 13:37
So I thought I'd dust off this here old blog and tell any of my remaining readers about the exhibit with Wolf Kahn. I know it's been ages since I wrote about this, so here is a quick descrip… Read More
2012-01-25 13:37
Crazy busy here all week, preparing to deliver paintings on Monday for a local show of my portraits at the Cooperstown Art Association, and also getting ready for the Beekman Boys Harvest Fe… Read More
2012-01-25 13:36
I had planned to write this post yesterday, but I had to deliver some work for a show and plus it turned out that even though I thought I had recovered from the physical labor and the hours… Read More
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