My friend Joey Ciaramitaro of Capt Joe's and  goodmorninggloucester  allows me to use his photos as reference for my fish paintings.  ...

I've been asked to imagine a roomful of fish for a show first quarter 2012. gotta get to work, so i'm going through my files. this...

above:  judith's pears prior to muse at play above:  after the muse stepped in it.  above:  detail of the muse's work...

yesterday i published pics of the back of this glass panel.  today i set the front panel (the viewing pane) to museum quality wor...

 detail left 10x20"  detail right 10x20"  detail right, brighter conditions  detail left, brighter conditions ready for th...

Pears from the garden at The Sargent House Museum in Gloucester MA. The black spots on the fruit and leaves:  fire blight?  There is a quin...

color directions for a painting.  drawing copyright clarke bv=bluevio let, yo=yellowo range, b=blue, bg=bluegre en, ro=redoran ge, yg=yello...

detail of the blue-faced cichlid.  the original is on display at 100 Centennial Drive, Peabody.  image is close to actual size.  gold, silve...

Revitalizing Historic Sites Through Contemporary Art: New Trust Art: Susie MacMurray at Kedleston Hall, ... : "PROMENADE from Benjamin...

Somerville artist Sarah Meyers Brent at work in The Sargent House Gardens last Sunday.  Sarah incorporates dried botanical elements into he...

 deb clarke represents at The Sargent House Museum!  Sunday 7/17. Spent a white hot afternoon working in the gardens of The Sargent Hous...

If you are in town, come on down! there will be art making and greeting in the garden of this great historic house museum! the link wil...

mixed media on laminated fiberboard.  a palimpsest.  Marilyn Buckles, an artist friend of blessed memory, gave me this drawing board to wor...

took the red chair outside yesterday, re-worked the canvas with fusion acrylic spray paint and some oil paint. next step? loaded palette...

the acrlic layer failed. i was able to peel it off to the canvas. it tore the silver leaf. why? i sealed the drawing with egg yolk. ...

it's official, sometime this afternoon the sun will hit its northern zenith, then start heading south.  the primroses have infiltrated ...

 June 12 June 19 June 20, 2011 Progress report.  This little red chair always gives me a workout; sharing some growing pains. Perspectiv...

My daughter Elizabeth Bollenberg plays in this band.  They are performing tonight at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge 9pm My ...

  this is my little red chair, the subject of many drawings.  sat in it when i was wee,  still use it to sit upon, and observe it through my...

Here's the set-up, palimpsest on gessoed canvas 26x26" .  that's Capt Joe's in the background.  again the geometry confoun...