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| Lobstermen's Dock, Perkins Cove, ME |
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| Trawler Linda, Gloucester Harbor MA |
Going through old art recently, I found these two on-site drawings I did years ago in a sketchbook I took on a trip to New England. I can't exhibit the originals because they are not on archival paper, but maybe I can use them as prints or posters.
On the last warm day of early October I was in a garden in Glenview drawing the last stand of some rosinweed and coneflower blossoms when a flicker of motion caught my eye and for a few seconds I saw a little fairy under the coneflowers. She must have sensed my gaze because she scurried into the foliage and I couldn't see where she went. I had to sketch her into my drawing from memory.
This painting of houses on a canal in Murano, near Venice, will be in the Chicago Association of Visual Artists Members Exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 West 35th Street in Chicago, in the 3rd floor gallery. There will be an Opening Reception on Friday, Sept. 15 from 6 to 10pm, and another reception on Friday, Oct. 20 from 7 to 10pm. Gallery hours are Mon.-Sat. 8am to 6pm and Sun. 8am to noon. The show will be open daily through Oct. 28, 2023.
When I visit museums of art or natural history or folklore or toys, sometimes I like to sketch dimensional folk personages, be they puppets, marionettes, dolls, masks, or in this case Clayoquot house posts from the Pacific Northwest. When I drew these before the COVID pandemic in a natural history museum, there were only dark museum walls behind them which I didn't draw. Yesterday I was in a Forest Preserve and I found a stand of living and fallen trees, leafless and silhouetted against a bright sky. I decided to draw them. When I was paging through my sketchbook to find a blank page I came across my totem drawing and realized the winter woods would be a perfect background for it so I drew them in.
My painting GRAIN will be on exhibit through November 5 at Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street in Evanston, Illinois. There will be an Artists Reception on Sunday, October 16 from 1 to 4pm. All are welcome.
This painting is in the current CAVA-sponsored exhibition A MOMENT OF ZEN at the North Shore Art League second floor gallery in the Winnetka Community House at 620 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois. Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. 9am to 8pm and Sat.-Sun. 9am to 5pm.
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| Twilight at the Marina, 13 x 9 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark SOLD
A little over a month ago, just before the coronavirus plague, I was in Tennessee visiting relatives and celebrating family birthdays. There is a marina on Percy Priest Lake about a mile from my sister's house in Nashville, but it's not as visually interesting as the marina on the far side of the Percy Priest Dam, so that's where I went to sketch. I made the ink drawing on-site and finished the painting at home with the addition of watercolor and a few touches of colored pencil. UPDATE! I am happy to announce that this painting is in the current WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT, OR ARE WE? exhibition at Stola Gallery in Chicago, and it has been sold. (August 11, 2020)
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