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Wow! 2011 has been quite a year! At the beginning of the year we finished up a large piece for a private home using the Finch stencil design. At more than 16′ x 16′ this was one of our largest private home projects to date. For a little bit of fun I came up with [...]
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Picture this: you drive up to Vermont on a beautiful, crisp winter’s day. You venture off the main road and arrive at Canvasworks Studio. You spend the morning (or the afternoon) with artist, Lisa Curry Mair, touring the 200 year old farmhouse and studio, learning about floorcloths and folk art, nibbling on fresh baked [...]
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It’s been a long time coming, but finally it’s here: My own website for prints of my folk-art-style paintings! Click on the image to go directly to the new site! Many of you have asked me to make these pieces of art available to hang on the wall, so here they are. I love painting [...]
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The Allegheny Portage Railroad Museum is a part of the U.S. National Park Service and a National Historic Site in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania. One of the park’s features is the historic Lemon House, which served as an inn and tavern for travelers in the early to mid 1800s. I was commissioned to replace three floorcloth in [...]
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As I write, I’m waiting for the FedEx Freight truck to arrive to take all 700 pounds of floorcloth away! The three pieces (two 20′ X 20′ floorcloths for the dining room and the 10′ X 40′ piece for the hallway) are carefully wrapped, reinforced and labelled. The two for the dining room are on [...]
There’s been a whirlwind of activity around the studio! The Allegheny Portage Railroad Museum pieces are well on their way. The first one is completed. We painted all the black diamonds, then marbled them all. This piece is 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, painted on heavyweight Number 4 canvas. With all that paint, [...]
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On Friday Theresa sanded the entire 44′ piece of canvas and then applied the base coat of Monterey White. When that was dry on Saturday, I spent the day transferring the lines for the elongated diamonds to the canvas. This was like an all-day yoga class- crawling around on the floor, reaching for tools, getting [...]
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Yesterday afternoon Theresa and I rolled the canvas backwards on the tube so that when we unrolled it the un-shrunk side was up. Theresa soaked the second side at 1:00 and we opened the shop garage door, turned on fans and crossed our fingers. It was close to 90° outside, and it was one of [...]
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So, we’ve started the Lemon House project! Theresa and I pulled 44′ of 120″ wide #4 canvas off of the bolt. Good thing we did it at 8:00 this morning. We were sweating and it was only 72°. The whole thing was soaked with hot water and then hung over cardboard tubes to let air [...]
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At the last minute I realized that I will actually be here this weekend, so the studio doors are open! Come on in and see the progress on a large Medfield Stencil floorcloth (for details on that design click here). Browse through the gallery and see lots of floorcloths, paintings and even canvas earrings for [...]