Uncorked at the Oak Park Conservatory

Uncorked at the Oak Park Conservatory

Coming up on Friday, June 24, I will be participating as a Plein Air artist in the annual Uncorked event from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Oak Park Conservatory! Every few years I paint at one of the properties on the Garden Walk, and this year I will be doing this instead. As...
A Sweet Commission & Spring Blossoms

A Sweet Commission & Spring Blossoms

To start off, I got GREAT news from Scotland! Eight of the eleven commissioned paintings I sent over in March sold at Kate Durran’s piano concerts, along with a pile of notecards! She will have more concerts of the Bach Toccatas, so I am leaving the remaining...
Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

I just finished a series of eleven paintings for the Scottish pianist Kate Durran so she can have them at her 2022 concert series in Scotland and England. I first encountered Kate in 2009 for the Ruckert Lieder series, as I explained in my last post. That time I just...
Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

The Winter 2 Session of classes is open for registration, and I’ve gotten a couple of reports of OPAL’s registration website being a little buggy. The bugs have been fixed, but if you attempt to register and you get a notice that classes are closed, please...
Finding Good, No Matter What

Finding Good, No Matter What

I had a phone conversation the other day with one of my mixed media students, and what I thought was going to be an informal art consultation sort of phone call, took a sharp turn almost immediately. He had just returned from a long trip overseas to spend a month with...