Gary Shankman

Impressionist Oil Painting on Linen -- The Arbor

2016

This oil on linen painting of a group of three colorful row houses provides a unique slice of the urban landscape in Albany, NY. The highly detailed houses show open porches, startling for the cold Upstate NY weather, but typical of this corner of Albany where several houses are reminiscent of New Orleans architecture. Painted by the artist partly in situ, this area -- Hall Place in the Ten Broeck...

Achieved through plein air, this wonderful painting of an Adirondack landscape shows dynamic blue waters in movement around a small island. The vibrant blue of the sky is mirrored be...

An oil painting of high tide at Spooners Cove, California. Artist Bio Joseph Paquet, while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, had the good fortune of finding mentors in artists James McMullan and John Foote who opened his eyes to the joys of drawing the human figure. After graduating, Paquet met another major influence in his life, John Osborne, who was uniquely gifted artist and teacher. Osborne believed that a landscape painting should begin on location, but that its poetic essence should be completed in the solitude of the artist's studio. Paquet experienced a demanding and rewarding apprenticeship, in which he learned to fuse field studies with the image he could see in his mind's eye. Increasingly however, Paquet is creating most of his work from life, believing that the direct correspondence with nature increases the potential for greater feeling. "Intellect, he says, doesn't keep one warm at night." He has been featured in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, The Artist's Magazine, American Artist, Southwest Art and Plein Air Magazine. Paquet's awards include both Artist's Choice and Collector's Choice from The 2007 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational as well as the 2008 Alden Bryan...

Linda Lillegraven's beautiful original oil landscape "Artemesia" depicts a serene moment of a western plain at evening, with the sunset shadowing the field as the moon rises from th...