Things have been extraordinarily busy around here lately but I guess that is a good thing. Last weekend I had the opening at Bannerman Island Gallery in Beacon, NY and this past Friday night was the opening at Gallery North in Setauket. So, it was such an enjoyable experience to get into the van with my good painting buddies Anthony Davis and Jane McGraw-Teubner and drive in to New York City to paint in Central Park yesterday, July 18th, 2009.
The reason for the schlep into the city was the new PBS TV series entitled “Passport and Palette” which follows different on site painters around the world and chronicles their experiences as well as sharing their advice. The main participants in the series i.e Kevin MacPherson, Ken Backhaus, Joe Anna Arnett, etc. were all painting and filming in Central Park near the Bethesda Fountain yesterday and other painters were encouraged to come and join them. It seemed to me at about mid-day that every New York painter who paints on site must have been there, all crowded around the fountain, including the great Tony Bennett who is a lover of painting and was doing a nice watercolor. There is probably no where else in the world outside of New York City that you can turn up to paint on a Saturday morning and end up working next to Tony Bennett!
I love living in such close proximity to the “Capitol of the World” and really enjoyed painting there. “Central Park II 7.18.09” is the second of two 8 X 10’s that I did that day and is, as far as I’m concerned, the kind of view that makes Central Park unique. This painting is available for sale. Click on "Paintings and Prints" to the left and follow the link to "Website Exclusives".
