Category: Art

  • Peg Visits Barge in Conflans-Saint- Honorine


        Digital painting, prints only

     We visited this town to see the barge museum there. This town still has the boarding school barge owners use today.

  • Tapas With Friends

    In a bar in Cabañal having tapas with Ximo and Andea.  They are great company.  We tried an array of unusual tapas, thanks to Ximo’s excellent suggestions.  Superb local wine.  I had a great time with them in May, sometimes in bar and sometimes at Ximo’s place.  

    Cabañal is on the edge of Valencia, Spain at the beach.  The narrow streets reflect the age of the place, which is full of many two story traditional Spanish townhouses.   This is a small water color painting.

    In the Bar, With Friends in Cabañal, Spain, acrylics , 20×20 cm, 8×8″

  • Strolling Poland- a short book

    Click on the link below my water color painting of Malbork Castle to see the small book I created about our two months in Poland.

    Malbork Castle, watercolor, 20 x 20 cm, 8″ x 8″

    https://issuu.com/garyartista/docs/poland_book_2_14d696fd25c58d

  • Ukranian Woman

     

     

    Ukrainian Woman, watercolor, , 20×20 cm, 8×8″

  • Robert Mueller

    I’m watching, I’m listening. 

    Robert Mueller

     

  • Close up

    Close Up, acrylics,
    Close Up, acrylics, 40 x 30, 16.5 x 11.25″

    We move in on the eye, it’s shimmering reflections, fluidity, how it conveys awareness.

  • She’s A Looker

     

    She’s A Looker, digital version, prints only

     

  • My pen and ink of Poznan Cathedral

    My pen and ink of Poznan Cathedral

    My pen and ink of Poznan Cathedral.  My travel notebook is 14 x 22, 5.5 x 8.5″

    my pen and ink of Poznan Cathedral

  • Peg in Vincent’s Wheat Field (digital)

    This is after Van Gogh’s “Wheat Field with a Lark.”   Starring my wife Peg and my friend Vincent.

     

    Peg in Vincent’s Wheatfield, digital painting

     

  • Strolling Torun

    Strolling Torun

    Torun is small and thus easy to walk.  It is full of remarkable architecture, with many restaurants, bars and cafes to add to your enjoyment.   The buildings range from the brick structures daring from the 14th century Teutonic Knights to the Gothic to Art Nouveau and Art Deco.   The town was not damaged in WW2, so the buildings are not newly rebuilt.

    One of Toruń ‘s fabulous buildings in the small old town

    Toruń is another of several Polish city members of the Hanseatic League.  The prosperity led to the three main styles, Gothic (dating from 1200’s) in brick, Mannerism and Baroque.    The city walls and the now ruined castle are from the Gothic period.    

    Torun old city walls

    City Hall, Toruń , Gothic, 1274

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Cathedral of SS. John the Evangelist and John the Baptist (14th century) has some wonderful sculptures and paintings from the era, including a  Moses and St. Mary Magdalene.  The multiple altars are ourstanding.

     

    Altars in the Cathedral

     

    Copernicus was born here and, if you will allow just this one pun, the city revolves around him.  There are two museums that deal with him at least in title, this statue in front of city hall, and lots of reproductions of famous portraits.    

    Copernicus

    Street sculpture

    Street sculpture

    Ulica Szorka, Torun

    While you wander about you are tempted by the lody – ice cream – which is very popular in this comparatively warm weather, with temperatures as high as 28c, 80f in generally partly cloud skies.  Donuts are elaborately presented,  a variety of calorie rich cakes.  The city is most famous for its gingerbread, which fortunately for my waist line I do not like.  There is very good cappuccino, espresso and macchiato (small cappuccino) —  be careful about the latter as there is a small macchiato espresso and a the very large latte macchiato.    There are waffles with real whipped cream and cherry jam.    Gone are the pretzels, hard and soft, found in Cracow and the multitude of fruit stands and street markets from everywhere we have been.      Remaining is the ever-present beer, with wine still an expensive alternative, and I hope you do not like sugar-free colas as they are harder to find if not impossible.  Pierogies are everywhere in Poland so here as well, but I could not find latke, potato pancakes.  Since our 1998 visit the Italians and Turks have moved in, so pizza and donor kebab are popular, as well as hamburgers even.

    With our flat located within blocks of the Rynek (central square) we had the shortest possible commute.  This turned out to be not the case in our next destination, the historical city of Poznan.    On the other hand, we had two flights of these stairs:

    Our staircase