My visit to the Hudson Gallery in Sylvania, Ohio

Recently I made a trip to Ohio (where my roots are) and delivered the following art works to a gallery in Sylvania (a suburb of Toledo near the Michigan border). It is a beautiful gallery on Main Street owned and directed by Scott and Barbara Hudson. Please visit the Hudson Gallery  http://www.hudsongallery.net.



Bar Cafe/Astoria
oil on board 9" x 12"



Pastis
oil on board 9" x 12"



Italy/A Cafe in Lucca
oil on board 9" x 12"


The above paintings were made plein air, with the aid of a pochade box and a cup of coffee. A pochade box is a portable wooden box, about the size and configuration of a laptop computer, into which oil paint tubes, brushes, palette and a 9" x 12" gessoed board fit. I can sit anywhere, open up the box, and paint.



Vodka Bar
oil on board 13" x 18"



Blue Fin XIX
oil on board 16" x 20"



Blue Fin IX
oil on board 13" x 11"


The above paintings were painted in my studio, more deliberately than a plein air painting would have been; a combination of source material enter into their creation. They are inspired by bars in New York City, which are extravagant and faux.



Dancing at the Office Party
6-color hand-drawn lithograph 22" x 30"


Every year I capture the dancers at a fancy office Xmas party midtown Manhattan with a digital camera. The strobes are flashing and the dancers clumsy, but the shapes and spaces created by the movement and lights exhilarating. The above lithograph was printed by a fine press in Chelsea by master printer Rodney Doyle. I suggest a visit. http://www.soloimpression.com