My painting on the cover of Plein Air Magazine, March 2018 issue I am featured in the March 2018 issue of Plein Air magazine. Not only that, but they used one of my paintings on the cover. Of course I was very pleased about this! This article came about because the editor of the magazineContinueContinue reading “I’m a Cover Artist! March 2018 Plein Air Magazine”
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A Visit To Toledo’s Museum Of Fine Arts
While I have been working in The Toledo area, I visited the Toledo Museum of Fine Arts several times. Located in Toledo’s Old West End,a crumbling and beautiful historic neighborhood, the museum surprises with a well curated and friendly atmosphere. They have a great collection of historic paintings as well as a modern building withContinueContinue reading “A Visit To Toledo’s Museum Of Fine Arts”
Church Mural Re-Creation: Felix Lieftuchter, St. Aloysius, Bowling Green, Ohio
In Early 2014 I had the privilege to be called up to work on the recreation of a church mural at St. Aloysius church in Bowling Green, Ohio, The muralist is Felix Lieftuchter (b. Cincinnati, OH. 1883). My job is as an in-painter, which is generally the only thing I do on these restoration projects.ContinueContinue reading “Church Mural Re-Creation: Felix Lieftuchter, St. Aloysius, Bowling Green, Ohio”
Felix Lieftuchter, Muralist
Felix Bernard Lieftuchter was an artist who was born in Cincinnati in on Oct. 29, 1882. He produced at least six major church decorations, worked with mosaics, and engaged in portraiture. St. Joseph’s Cathedral Wheeling W. Virginia In 2014, I worked on a restoration of his work in an Ohio church, and you can seeContinueContinue reading “Felix Lieftuchter, Muralist”
Meeting Other Landscape Painters or Sketchers When You Travel
By far the best part of my trip to Italy to paint and learn about the culture, has been the local painters and fellow artists I met here. How did I find them? Well actually the first thing I did is google “plein air Rome” until I found the blog of a transplanted U.S. painter,ContinueContinue reading “Meeting Other Landscape Painters or Sketchers When You Travel”
Vatican Easter Message 2013
This past Easter Sunday I attended the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) Easter message from the brand new Pope Francis. I’m staying quite close to the Vatican, so I had to go. It was crowded, apparently a quarter million people, but it felt very special to be there, despite thatContinueContinue reading “Vatican Easter Message 2013”
A Painter Moves to Rome, Italy
On March 4th, 2013, I landed at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. I admit it was a relatively sudden move for me. I had spent most of 2012 in Maine and then had returned to Chicago and later North Carolina. My restoration work had been slowing down and I decided to realize one of my dreams: toContinueContinue reading “A Painter Moves to Rome, Italy”
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Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show
July 27 through Aug.11, 2012, I’ll have four paintings for sale at the Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. This is a show for students at the Lyme Academy that stayed at the Weekend house of Patricia O’Shaughnessy and Tom during our schooling. Fremont, Australia Town Square, Oil onContinueContinue reading “Finnegan’s Farm Reunion Show”
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