Juicy Oil Paintings at the Deli

Bell and Chili - oil painting

Oh yum, painting again! Such fun

I'm really pleased with the way the show turned out at Maplewood Deli and Grill. The paintings focus on the simple, unadorned beauty of common fruits and vegetables, which works really well with the clean, elegant black and white decor 

juicy red tomatoes - yum

oil paintings at the deli

come have lunch with the onions

See more still life oil paintings in the online gallery and buy art prints and note cards from my gift store

SHOW SPECIAL : free shipping to the US, Worldwide flat shipping $6

Jo Bradney : Recent Oil Paintings Maplewood Deli and Grill 149 Maplewood Avenue Maplewood, NJ 07040

New Artist Website to Explore

phew! that was a busy couple of weeks I've been working on a couple of websites (amongst other things!) and have had a great time looking through all Heidi's fabulous watercolor paintings.

I do love working with other artists and being able to snoop through their portfolio; following the threads and recurring themes that constantly inspire them. Like Heidi's fascination with light shining through such everyday things as fresh spring tulips, golden fall leaves or antique glass bottles, until they glow with all the glory of a stained glass window.

Head on over for a wee Art Break

www.heidilangparrinello.com

68 degrees and sunny watercolor painting Heidi Lang Parrinello

Stock the Food Pantry at JFS

Art Booth L&M Gallery, Elizabeth, NJ

I have spent the morning helping to hang my booth at the L&M Gallery. I got to have a quick peek at some of the other booths and there is some beautiful handmade silver jewelry, some jolly knits as well as some beautiful watercolor paintings

alas - the chocolatier was not there, but I have it on good authority that her creations are delicious

I hope you can stop by and help raise some money for the Food Pantry - maybe you'll win one of my new miniatures "Adirondack Vignette" in the raffle!

Adirondack Vignette - color pencil - 2.5"x3.5"

April 18 2010 2-5pm

L&M Gallery 124 Elmora Avenue Elizabeth, NJ www.lmartgallery.com 908 351 2633

Hope Springs Eternal : Rebirth of Haiti

At the Market

I hope you can join local Haitian artists, musicians and poets this Friday to help celebrate their rich culture this month at Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights. A portion of proceeds from art sales will be used for Haitian relief.

Friday, April 16, 2010, 5 - 9pm Summit Medical Group 1 Diamond Hill Road Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 www.summitmedicalgroup.com

Have a Cracking Weekend!

Egg Soccer by Kestutis Kasparavicius

Some nicely eggy illustrations from the book Eastereggs by Kestutis Kasparavicius to welcome the return of Spring. Check out the Egg Ballet and Easter Egg Parade on Imagekind and take 15% off any custom framing.

ImagekindCoupon Code : CF15 Expiration Date : 5/31/2010

Egg Dying by Kestutis Kasparavicius

Schwag!

schwag

oh boy that was fun!

Pan Pastels have a new range of really dark, muted colors that I think will work well with the charcoal - kerching! And they have these fabby lidded palettes for holding the containers whilst you're working - included with the set

Scrumptious Art Bins with lift out trays and a deep well for storage...and at that price I'll have two - kerching!

canvas canvas canvas, so I can get started painting again - kerching!

some lovely smooth sanded paper from UArt for pastel, charcoal and also color pencil it turns out (I know, I tried it) - kerching!

some new envelopes and mat cards designed specifically for my mini-drawings. Look out for a new note card series this summer - kerching!

samples of ampersand pastel board and clay board - FREE

sample of Canson Edition Print Paper, with my image printed on it - FREE Whitest white mat finish with no optical brightners for all you Printheads and Paperphiles out there

Faber-Castell pencil sample and juicy glossy catalogue for enthusing with the rep about how good their pencils are. FREE

A chance to put in my request for Faber Castell to make the block bars of color pencil pigment, like Prismacolor ArtStix.

Learned that Faber Castell pencils have bonded pigment throughout, which is why they rarely shatter when Lulu nudges them off the table and why you can get a nice sharp point on them.

News of an 8-ply mat cutter coming out this month from Logan (silent joyful jigging ensued)

And best of all - I got outta there for less than $100...just

MARRRRRRRVELOOOOOUS afternoon - Thank you Jerry's

NJ Arts Expo this Saturday

NJ Arts Expo, NJCVA

I am looking forward to all the demonstrations, but particularly the luscious Pan Pastels and the Strathmore papers...keeping my fingers crossed for some free samples!

see you there!

Saturday March 27 10am - 6pm Hosted by Jerrys at NJCVA 68 Elm Street Summit NJ

www.njcva.org

"The Power of Art" pbs Art History series returns

The Power of Art - Simon Schama

Hooray!PBS is repeating my favorite art series "The Power of Art" by Simon Schama Without his book  The Power of Art I would never have gone to find the Turner paintings at Tate Britain...

and finding them absent (on a worldwide tour) I would never have taken the time to see "Colour and Line"...

and then I would not have spent a terrific afternoon sketching with Turner

"Colour and Line" documents Turner's experiments with new pigments, color theory and new printing techniques. And has fabulous sketching stations, where you can sit and study and copy Turner's landscape sketches. 

And now through the power of the www, you can visit from the comfort of your sofa!

I finally caught up with the wayward Turners at The New York Metropolitan, in the sublime exhibit celebrating his life's work, which I managed to visit twice before it made its way onward. In a neat little twist, I also managed to catch up with Simon Schama who started me on this journey. He was taking part in their Sunday lecture series and was also in the gallery afterwards.

In a very un-British, extreemly bashful moment, I managed to accost him in the gallery and thank him for writing this book and making the series. Without them I would not have found Turner

Nor have spent the day learning from the Professor of Perspective

The Power of Art is on PBS Channel 13 Sundays at 1pm EST This Sunday it is Van Gogh

"Walk with a Crocodile"

I am really looking forward to seeing Booked 7- the  Book Arts Round Table Exhibition in South Orange. I had such fun at last year's show, and spent a delightful couple of hours picking up, reading and playing with all the books.

I am particularly looking forward to seeing my friend Ann's book - "Walk with a Crocodile", with it's pull out pages and peepholes ~ looks like fun!

Ann Vollum : Walk with a Crocodile

Ann Vollum : handmade art book

Ann Vollum : Beastly Beasties

February 25th – March 13th 2010 open daily 10 - 4pm

Opening Reception : Thursday March 4th 6 - 9pm Silent Auction : March 13th 2 - 4pm

Booked 7 Pierro Gallery at the Baird 101 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 www.pierrogallery.org

Morris Plains , NJ Art Auction

On Harvest Eve

Homewards

Up the Shady Path

just a quick note to let you know that I have three miniature drawings in the Silent Auction this weekend at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Morris Plains. The exhibit will be open throughout all their activities this weekend, so I hope you can stop by.

Trinity Lutheran Church 131 Mountain Way Morris Plains, NJ 973 538 7607 www.tlcmp.com

Saturday February 20

Spaghetti Dinner $15 adults kids free 

Sunday February 21 3pm Gallery Opens 4pm Concert featuring Morris Choral Society $15/$10/$5 Adults/Seniors/Students 5pm Reception and Art Auction