I'm not definitely not going to rent space. I have the room right here in my house...it's right over there and it's currently taken up by a bed and some other useless furniture. 

You know, I already feel like one of those artists who has a candle waxed to my forehead when I paint at night! 

By the way, the wife and I are doing a few days up in Maine later this year. Know the area? Any recommendations? Activities? Restaurants? We're staying near Bar Harbor and so far we've scheduled a whale watch and Acadia National Park.

will you still have time to meet when we are in Vermont?

hellooooo...long time no talk.. posting some new stuff soon.  i just spent a week in columbus at the columbus college of art and design participating in a workshop for ap studio art teachers.  it was fantastic.w/ lots and lots of built in studio time.  very productive!!

i hope your summer is going well!

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the feeback on my MFA dilemma. I wondered how things have been going for you as I have been figuring out my future. Here is where I am at - I interviewed for an undergraduate teaching job where I am already employed in continuing ed and they didnt even realize I am a watercolorist (did they not even read about the class I am teaching at their school? NO!) wanting to teach watercolors but now they know it, they met me, and if they decide to change their curriculum I could find a job down the road but I am focusing on right here, right now. I also interviewed for an opportunity to go to a masters program, but its a masters of education focused on arts and learning. The program is perfect for the working adult, one weekend a month for 22 months with the cost totalling about 11k, and the end result, I will have a better understanding of teaching but if nothing else, I get to learn and feel better about my own art as I go through the process. I think I will do this program, starting this fall, and I can still teach in my studio, teach in continuing ed, and sell my art via galleries and Paradise City. I am too old to want to go back to school full time for a MFA degree, not to mention the cost with 2 kids already in college, but to my amazement, hearing about the masters of education program did excite me! (its part of the graduate dept. at Endicott College in Beverly, MA., www.endicott.edu, check it out) 

Whats going on with you?

Hey Greg!
How was the Art's Alive reception? I had planned to go, but ended up having to have to coach a soccer game because I was the only one qualified to do it who was still in the State this weekend.  Too bad, too because it was 93 degrees and my entire starting midfield had conflicts, so I coached against a team with 8 subs armed with one one sub.  We kept it close the first half, but by the second, my second stringers (some had never even played the position before) wouldn't track back and my poor defenders were just being creamed.  Oh well.  Such is life.

 Did you win any awards?  One of these days we will meet, I promise.

 -Marcia

I have to admit to you, some of the new work I posted was because I am excited to be going back to Chester, and the only brand new painting is "Rocky River".. I will sign it if its done, still deciding. All the other new paintings are from locations around Chester and now that I have my trip planned I am going to be excited until I get there. I will keep you posted when its closer to July and if it fits in maybe we can visit your studio or you where ever. It sounds like all your shows the past 2 yrs have allowed you enough knowledge to be that much better.. its all a learning experience and its all good. I have had a whole bunch of good things happen lately although none of them are 'complete' to date. Next week I have a job interview to teach undergraduate painting at the college where I have been teaching in the CE department, something I think I told you I really wanted to have happen so we will see. I also have an interview for a Masters of Education program that deals specifically with the arts.. something geared toward working adults, so its part time in a doable schedule but if I get the teaching job the masters will be put on hold. Then, I had some furniture maker guy (his stuff was amazing and he bought a print from me the last day of the PC show) ask me if I would show my paintings in his gallery in Ct. and then my gallery in Boston she asked me to bring in more original paintings and then my 4 friday students and I are going to have a small group show in the fall. ALOT is going on right now, hopefully everything will work out for the best. I am writing this on my fickle macbook and for fear of loosing everything I just typed I will just send this off to you, hopefully only once. So when will you have time to paint again? There just arent enough hours in the day some times. 

River" painting which I will sign today if its going to stay as is. I take a bunch of photos every time I go to Chester then decide what I want to paint later, and this painting was started last Friday with the ladies I meet with at my studio and I needed to finish it before we meet again tomorrow.

I am going to be in Chester, VT. July 15-18 with an artist friend. How far is your studio from there? We are going to be painting and just hanging out plus I just found out the small gallery that has my Vermont paintings is for sale so I will be picking up my work from them. Did you get everything setup in Brattleboro? I will be driving on I-91 in July but dont know if you will still be exhibiting then.