"Jingle Bells" oil on masonite 4" x 4."
"Alice" Oil on canvas.
This afternoon my daughter and I were out running an errand and drove to Boonsboro. I have not been down alt 40 since maybe March. I figured we would have a look at an old house I painted a couple of winters ago. The last time I saw it, the place seemed dark and kind of spooky inside. For years the same old rusty 1953 Pontiac sat out front, and someone seemed to be trying to make a go of it with the house, and the car. Some time last year, the people and the car disappeared. The old house was a wreck. So today, I was very surprised (and Happy) to see the old house was occupied and completely renovated. I was so surprised I drove past the house thinking that I must be looking at the wrong property. On my second pass, I could see a large screen TV on in the living room, the house was full of life again.
Pencil on paper.
Last April I came across a dusty old photo of a soldier, his dog tags, and a medal, in an antique shop in Edinboro Pennsylvania. The soldier's name was inscribed on the medal. A Google search turned up the life of Chester C. Waller, a physician and skilled surgeon from Vermont. He went to war in France in May of 1918. Before the war, Dr. Waller attended the Methodist Seminary in Montpelier Vermont, attended medical school in Burlington Vermont, and graduated from the Baltimore Medical College in Maryland in 1898. He had 3 children, his first wife died in 1911, a few years after his daughter was born. He remarried in 1913. From there I know little else about Dr. Waller.
Oil on masonite.
Tonight Dorothy and I drove to Bedford PA and sat in with the Stockade Art Club. Great live music, artists, models, wine and beer(iced tea for me), it was quite a night.
Untitled, oil on brick.
Abandoned truck and motel.
"Pocket Knife" oil on masonite 6"x 8."
Kind of a lousy image, but it is too late and I don't care. I need to get some shut eye. This piece is not done yet, a few more glazes and bits to work on. This piece over took my water tank. I'll return to that in the next week or so. Saturday, Amy and I are headed to the wilds of Bedford PA in search of more people/places to paint.
It was a really cruddy night to be out, but a nice night for drawing over at Shepherd University. I hope we saw the last snow of the season tonight!
Spending these past few nights with this painting have been wonderful. I have known Rick about 30 years. This process puts me way back, years and years ago, and back again to a night not so long ago, having dinner downtown with Rick and Amy, waiting for the Mummers Parade to begin.
Amy and I tried out another old diner last weekend. Johnnie's is on the south end of Chambersburg PA., near some old run down factories, and the main rail lines coming into town along on Route 11. Last night we decided to meet there after work, since it is on the way home. I started this drawing before Amy arrived at Johnnie's. There may be some plein air painting happening there soon since there is more daylight.
"Maddox" pencil on paper.
