Portland Bound

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This is the piece I completed at the glass workshop last month and I'm just getting around to picking it up at the studio so here it is! This technique is very labor intensive but it is so rewarding when complete.   I will be traveling to Portland OR next week and am very excited about visiting the Bullseye Glass Factory.  Stay tuned for updates! To learn more about this workshop, check out this awesome post by Gloria Moses on her blog.

This piece comes framed Finished dimensions are 14x18

"Olitsky Revelation in Glass"

12x12 fused glass 

Hi Everyone, I bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth and quit painting altogether!  Actually, I'm still a little behind and not painting as much as I'd like but I'm getting back in the swing.  I had a commission for another sailor painting immediately after the first one sold so I took care of that, and there is an upcoming show for Findlay Area Artists at the prestigious Toledo Museum of Art that coincides with a Jules Olitsky exhibit and also is held during the international Glass Art Society conference.  Basically what it means is there will be a lot of visibility for the art in that show.  There is one caveat however, and that is that one of the 3 pieces we create for the show must be inspired by Jules Olitsky...Now he's an interesting guy, but not my style at all, so I kind of struggled with this one.  But then my glass friend Kelly reminded me that thousands of glass artists would be milling about so I decided to do my piece in glass......It has taken me over a week and 6 "firings" so far.  Each firing is about 24 hours from start to finish.....mostly just lots of waiting time....I'm not entirely happy with it, and I think I'll do one more tiny adjustment, but here it is.  Olitsky was inspired in his later years by the landscapes around his home very near where I grew up in New Hampshire.  I chose a sunset of Lake Winnepesaukee as my inspiration for this piece, where Olitsky created many of his works.