Just some new paintings

Don't have a lot of time to write today so I thought I'd just post some of my recent paintings. Hope you enjoy them.

"June Farm" is of a farm about 4 miles from my home. The barn is abandoned. This was painted entirely in oils with the palette knife on a high-grade birch panel. It is 17 x 24 inches in size.

"Lilies at St. James Farm" is an 11 x 14 oil on canvas that I painted in plein air last Friday, June 24th. I am really enjoying painting in the great outdoors and it is the best studio an artist could have. I was serenaded by booming bullfrogs while painting this and I provided a multi course meal for some of the bugs that bit me while painting. You can't capture that ambiance in the studio.

"Crossroads"
This is a little 5" x 7" oil on canvas quick study of the intersection of Fabyan and Route 25 in Geneva, Illinois.

This is a 10" x 20" all palette knife, oil on linen painting that I haven't titled yet. I am open to suggestions as to the title.

This is "Spring Waterfall" It's a 14" x 11" oil on canvas. This one got a "Like" on Facebook by Stephen Doherty, the former editor of American Artist magazine and current editor of Plein air magazine, so I am quite proud of it.

Well, gotta go for now, I hope you enjoy these paintings, thanks for checking out my blog.

Bill

William Worcester Summer 2011 Art Happenings

Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to bring you up-to-date on my recent and upcoming art activities.

My first session as an oil painting instructor at The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles has one week left. My students have created several oil paintings which even impressed me. Unfortunately, my camera was not working properly and I can't show you their efforts, but here are a couple of demo sketches I did for the class.

There is still time to register for the upcoming classes if you want to learn the basics of oil painting and landscape painting.

Expressive Oil Painting is on Wednesday nights from 6-9 pm starting July 13th

and going to August 10th.

Landscapes in Oils is on Saturday mornings from 9am-noon starting July 9th

and going to Aug 13th.

 For more information or to register call The Fine Line Creative Arts Center at 630.584.9443 or go to the website at www.fineline.org.

Other news, I have been doing a lot of painting in the great outdoors and have been using the palette knife to create most of the pieces. The palette knife forces the artist to loosen up and helps create beautiful textured surfaces. The painting at the top of the email Dupage River, June 8th was completely done with the palette knife. It is a fairly large painting for me being 30" x 40". I recently bought an shop apron to paint in, because when the palette knife is flinging paint, I tend to wreck a lot of my shirts.

I attracted a lot of attention and was visited by a group of Brownies on a field trip, when I painted this 24" x 30" plein air painting of Herrick Lake.

The Brownies asked a lot of good questions, and made me feel as though I was Monet with all of their wonderful compliments.

Well, I don't want  to take up any more of your precious time, so I'll end this epistle now with the open invitation for you to drop in and see some of my work at:

The Proud Fox Gallery in Geneva, Illinois

Kamp Galleries of Chicago (in the lobby of the Drake Hotel) and Winnetka

or to see my very small paintings at

The Comfort Me Shoppe in Lincoln Park.

All the best, your friend in art

Bill