Archive for April, 2009
Who doesn’t love a sunset painting?
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Every Evening | 2009 | 10" x 8" oils on panel | Stephen Springer Davis
This is the view that our friends Sara and John have every evening at their house on Lake Androscoggin in Wayne, Maine. Raise your hands all those who are jealous. Yes, the colors are lurid, but that’s the way it was. At least I didn’t do the painting on black velvet.
Tags: sunset paintings
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The Perfect Painting
Friday, April 24th, 2009
In 2000-01 I did a series of watercolor paintings that I called “camp roads”. In Maine a camp road is a windy dirt road through the woods that leads to your cabin or house by the lake. These roads are usually a very pale tan, and in these paintings I wanted to show the beauty of the dappled light and shadows. (more…)
Tags: landscape painting, Maine, the perfect painting
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Hello.
I'm Stephen Springer Davis
I'm a pretty much self-taught and pretty much unknown artist and designer living near Philadelphia. The plan is to tell you about my artwork, why I do it, maybe how I do it, and also about other artists who've inspired me along the way.
My definition of the term "painting" will remain intentionally broad so I can talk about anything that interests me.
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