Monson Art Council Spring Art Exhibition & Sale.

 "Winter Fugue" and 

"Sunscreen" 

have been accepted at the upcoming Monson Art Council Spring Art Exhibition & Sale.

The House of Art,

200 Main St

Monson, MA

April 11 - 26,

Saturdays & Sundays 12:00 - 5:00

Opening Reception April 11 12:00 - 5:00

Zoe in 5th Annual Celebrating the Figure show

 

Zoe will be included in the upcoming 5th Annual Celebrating the Figure show at Artworks Gallery in Ware, MA.

ArtWorks Gallery
60 Main St.
Ware, MA 01082

April 11th to May 9th, 2026

Saturdays & Sundays 1 to 4 pm

Opening Reception  Saturday, April 11th 3 to 5 pm

Winter show

 Tree House and Little House in the Big Backyard have been accepted into the upcoming show "Winter" at ArtWorks Gallery in Ware, MA.

60 Main St.

Ware, MA 01082

March 7th to April 4th, 2026

Saturdays & Sundays | 1 to 4 pm

Opening Reception Saturday, March 7th | 3 to 5 pm

Rain Walker

A pen and ink sketch from this morning. Walking in the rain and melting snow, saw a lone woman in black silhouetted against the misty background, tried to draw from memory.

New shed in new snow in new sketchbook

 The sun was low in the sky behind the shed, casting the front surfaces into shadow and creating rim lighting around the roof. The snow on the roof, while technically in shadow, had its own luminosity, collecting and reflecting the skylight.

 Time for a new Montanapolitancroptic sketchbook!

Here are a few from the old one that I hadn't gotten around to posting:

Another of those rocks from the UMass Sun Wheel. People gather there to observe the solstices and equinoxes.

At first I thought these guys were building a shed but it turned out they were carefully disassembling it. In any case, the light was very striking.

The former Amherst, MA train station. It's right down the street from the old Emily Dickinson place, which apparently was no accident - her family held a lot of stock in the railroad company.

Self Service Car Wash

I was initially attracted by the luminosity of the snow and white fence vibing off each other in the sunlight. As I was working I saw several people coming and going on the beaten path leading up the hill. I wondered if there was a name for such unofficial byways and thought that "via vernacula" would be a good one. I found no instances of "via vernacula" on the web but did find a couple references to existing terms: "social path" and "desire path." Results of searching on "social path" got about 50/50 "Did you mean 'sociopath?'" and a k-pop song of the same name. "Desire path" got more legit hits but had mostly negative connotations of environmental damage caused by lazy or impatient people bushwhacking across the landscape. Furthermore, "desire path' sounds like a route for a street car. Neither has the zing of "Via vernacula," so I am hereby nominating it as the term of record.