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A Painting Trip to Maine
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Late Day Cove | Stephen Springer Davis | 2009
Last week I had the opportunity to, as I have for about 25 years, return to Maine for a painting trip. This trip was different, though, from those of the last few years, because the weather was great, without the usual grey skies and threatening rain. On those trips I had to take pictures to paint from over the winter. I find it hard to make a gloomy day in a photo look sunny in a painting. But this time I got to do some plein air painting. Also, for the second time in all my trips I was at the ocean, rather than at the lake where the friends with whom I stay live. (more…)
Tags: landscape painting, Maine, oil painting
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Is this Art or not?
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
In 1980 I had a one-man show at the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina. Despite its hinterlands location, the museum has a very good collection, and I was honored to be showing there. At the opening of my show I was asked by the curator if I would consider a commission to do the artwork for the poster of a show coming up at the museum called Animals in the Arts.
Tags: art museum, poster
Posted in About my artwork, Musings on my earlier work | 3 Comments »
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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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