SoWa Winter Lights

The SoWa Artist Guild invites you to come and celebrate our art in a different light in conjunction with the SoWa - Thayer Street Winter Light Weekends. During the December 4th, SoWa First Friday evening from 7 to 8 PM, participating SoWa artists will convert our standard studio lighting into trans formative, imaginative and provocative studio lighting. We invite you to come and experience viewing art in a different light. It will change the way you see and think of art, if not for one hour but possibly forever. December 4th, 7-8 PM, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston, Ma.

There will also be a fund raising silent art auction in Studio 222 for the Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation supporting children's brain cancer research.Rachel loved art.

My studio, 233B, will also be open the first two weekends in December with extended hours;Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday afternoon hours, coinciding with the Thayer Street hours.Come by and take a second look at the painting you and your loved one fell in love with this year. Surprise someone with the gift of art for the holiday.Or don't remember what painting they loved best? Give a personalized gift certificate for one of my paintings or a commission. I will be leaving for the Alsace region in France on December 15th and my studio will be closed through December 23rd.

Above is my newest painting, They All finally Fell Down. This painting was glorious fun to paint as well as a challenge. A good painting always starts with a good drawing.Most artists will tell you that true ellipses are not easy to get looking right. Ellipses are not ovals; they are fore-shortened circles.The important difference to me is that an ellipse is an expression of three dimensional space while an oval is a two dimensional shape. I worked at he drawing from a close perspective and really wanted to get the feeling of the cup handle turning out into your space. The shapes and curves set up a rhythm to the composition and the colors fleshed out the light.It will be on view at First Friday.

Thanks to all for coming by the Brickbottom Open Studios. I had the most wonderful conversations with visitors., Sold some art but mostly enjoyed being a part of this creative community of artists.Fun was had by all.