Valerie May

Update on Large Canvas Painting

2011-04-09T06:24:00.002-04:00

Not finished this is the update.....

Large Canvas painting in Progress...

2011-03-27T10:07:00.000-04:00

Moment in the Sun 2011.mp4

2011-03-25T19:59:00.000-04:00

Oldies but goodies

2011-03-11T16:51:00.000-05:00

Noelle book cat

2011-02-26T08:05:00.000-05:00

Noelle on top of one of my many bookcases...she likes to sun herself under the light.

Hmmm..what's this?

New Landscape

2011-02-14T07:46:00.000-05:00

Painted this landscape this week.

Landscape Abstract

2011-02-09T07:06:00.000-05:00

A new landscape abstract, I just painted this landscape playing with an abstract style. The photo reference is so detailed and intense it does not make a very good reference photo for painting, but I love the pond and the refections so I decided to paint the picture concentrating on color and shapes working in an abstract way.....I like it and as I move it around my studio my eyes keep falling on it. I does look better in person.

Painting Oil Portrait Practice

2011-02-07T07:33:00.000-05:00

I have not written in my blog for a while but I have been working on a lot of new art projects, I'm going to post a few new pictures that I've been doing mainly concentrating on portraits. Here is an example; I'm still working on. Whis is still a practice I'm pretty new at painting portraits with oils I usually only draw them in charcoal or pastels and have just begun to start working with them in oil paints. I like to work in the classic style of portrait painting. I haven't had my portrait class this session, I'm hoping to have a live model soon. I have been working from photographs which is very hard. I really enjoyed working with a live model you really get to see the nuances in the face that you miss with the photographs and I'm hoping to start painting from a live model again.

2010-10-27T08:45:00.000-04:00

Scuba diving at Quissett Harbor for oysters....yum. Catch the video on FCTV...here's some photo's.

2010-10-27T08:37:00.000-04:00

Woods Hole Oceanographic--Meet Alvin- I filmed and photographed, catch the video on FCTV...

here's some photos...

2010-10-27T08:27:00.000-04:00

John....beautiful blue eyes.

New portaits that I have finished with some great models.....

Amelia...exotic looks.

2010-10-27T08:24:00.000-04:00

Moonlight

R/V Conn. getting ready to ship out for the night...

Cupola light....

Filming and Photographing at night....

2010-10-27T08:16:00.000-04:00

Its been awhile, I have been busy with filming and painting....
Working on nudes here's some of the sketch book....

2010-09-11T17:44:00.000-04:00

The sky was beautiful today....

2010-08-27T09:26:00.001-04:00

Stormy Blues- I photographed it two ways the bluer painting is more truer the color...this painting looks better in person you can really see the detail like the grass growing along the fence...and the horizon line is straight I was standing at a weird angle taking the pic...

2010-08-19T06:55:00.000-04:00

Back to the painting I am working on, I had to put it aside while filming and directing the Road Race.

So now the one on the easel....

2010-08-19T06:53:00.000-04:00

Some behind the scenes of interviews we (Kevin and Robbie) did on the Thursday before the Road Race.

It was a long weekend of filming and lots of work.. but I love it!
The women elite runner turned out to be the female winner!

2010-08-08T13:18:00.000-04:00

I have been working on this painting for a week; I had a difficult time with the flowers I just couldn't make
them look like I wanted them to; so I decided to put the painting aside and look at it for awhile and I'll go back and fix it when I've made up my mind as to what I want to change.

Morning Lights

2010-08-02T10:01:00.000-04:00

Some photos, of dramatic morning light.

2010-07-22T06:54:00.004-04:00

The flowers were beautiful this spring in front of the shops in downtown Falmouth. One morning while filming for a TV show I took several photos and a did a quick sketch so I could paint this pic one day. Lucky I did the flowers are now gone by with the summer heat, and I would never have been able to set my easel in this spot to paint because it is in the street where I had to take the pic.

2010-07-11T11:26:00.000-04:00

Lately I've been hard at work filming lots of shows at FCTV, I can't seem to find the perfect balance when I film; my painting stops, when I paint I have to put filming and editing on hold. Seems to me I have to create more hours in the day. Never the less I do have a painting on the easel I started a week ago; I need to add something which I am working on, not sure if I like the water, what attracted me to the scene was all the green growing and reflecting in the water and the rocks, not sure if I've achieved what I wanted, maybe a sailboat moored.....

2010-06-13T08:55:00.000-04:00

What's new on the easel, I love this lake. I fish there alot.

2010-06-05T06:10:00.000-04:00

My desk lately,

When writing my novel and I like to print it out and have it
in front of me the computer makes it easy but I like to write long hand to.

2010-06-05T06:07:00.000-04:00

New painting in process, coming along but need more, I love the spot its down Cape.
I have been so busy lately, between filming, painting, writing, and it's garden time, no time for sleep.

2010-06-05T05:52:00.000-04:00

Guitars are beautiful closeup, I have been playing alot lately.

Boat in progress and Abstract fun

2010-04-27T16:32:00.000-04:00

Fishing boat that I have been working on.Had fun with abstracts one day, this is called

Spring!!!

My artist quote today.

2010-02-09T06:23:00.001-05:00

"He unfolds, as a painter," said Cezanne, "that which has not yet been said; he translates it into absolute terms of painting--something other than reality."

I'm still trying to achieve my painting reality.

A teacher quote:
"In reality a piece of art is not a depiction of something else, it stands alone as a new creation. What is it? It is what it is, a painting judged without the need for comparison."

I love this "It is what it is" The beauty of a painting, sculpture, a song or even a dance, all of art really, is that… It is what it is.

Some of my studio, small but cozy.

2010-02-07T11:15:00.000-05:00

New Paintings in the Works

2010-02-07T11:11:00.000-05:00

Mornings on the Cape and its many Lights

2009-10-07T17:00:00.003-04:00

All the of these pictures came from a TV show I produced called

Morning Sunrises.

I shot a sunrise every morning for a year.

Cape Cod has beautiful color skies.

My latest painting

2009-09-27T10:28:00.005-04:00

It's been busy this month I have been doing lots of TV shoots and trying to get in my painting.

Here's my latest still on the easel; I'm putting the final touchs on the painting.

Woodneck Beach

2009-09-04T19:25:00.000-04:00

Barnstable

2009-07-21T19:28:00.000-04:00

Backroads around BoothBay Harbor.

2009-07-21T19:13:00.003-04:00

Summer on Cape Cod is making it hard to plein air paint.

So it was off to Maine.

Nickey

2009-07-21T19:09:00.003-04:00

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2009-07-02T16:54:00.001-04:00

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2009-06-24T15:57:00.002-04:00

A Couple of Maine oils- post card sizes. My favorite places to paint are off the beaten tracks in Maine.

Latest Canvas on Easel

2009-06-21T15:33:00.000-04:00

Here is my latest oil which is in progress now - an English landscape.

Drawing of Emma

2009-06-21T15:01:00.000-04:00

A drawing of my niece Emma, I really like this one she is a natual model.

Cape Cod Morning

2009-06-04T16:08:00.000-04:00