Holiday Party, Portrait Painting and Jazz Piano

	Glenway Fripp Jazz Piano & Portrait Session Holiday party at the Osborn & Rugh Gallery Saturday, December 8tth from 4 - 6 PM Doug Rugh will do an "alla prima" (all at once) portrait of Glenway during the event. Please join us for light refreshments. Donations for the musician are welcome. Glenway Fripp web site. Queen's Buyway, 114 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA 02540 Cape Cod (508) 548-2100

Another Indulgence...

...in simple things.

Pick of Peppers

Painted a pick of peppers today, pondering pure permanent pigments.

-Hillary Osborn

Lucky Rocks

Studying precarious arrangements while thinking about coming hurricane.

-Doug Rugh

Once Again

My students have a way of inspiring me always. Maybe that is why I like to teach. We discussed commercial vs fine art  as well as who does art belong to in our class today. Students worked on a beautiful still life of peppers and cabbage. I was so up lifted at the end of class, looking forward to painting, when a woman stuck her head in the door of our gallery and said to her friend, "oh just pictures in there" then she shut the door and walked away.  Funny sometimes how differently we see things.

-Hillary Osborn

Looker

Sometimes it's just the enjoyment of direct observation.

-Doug Rugh

Cape Cod Light

"Grayscape", oil/panel, 6" x 8", Rugh

"...with the radiant summer light of Provincetown that rivals the Greek Islands, because, I have always supposed, like them. . . . Provincetown is on a narrow spit of land surrounded by the sea, which reflects light with a diffused brilliance that is subtly but crucially different from the dry, inland light . . . People tend to forget that Provincetown is (roughly) on the forty two degree meridian, as is Barcelona and Opporto and Cannes and Rome (almost exactly) and Macedonia and Istanbul and Peking (more or less), a distinctly warm southern light compared to Northern Europe, a light as seductive to painters in the Modernist tradition as geometry was to ancient Greek philosophers and musicians." -Robert Motherwell
 
from: Robert Motherwell, "Provincetown and Days Lumberyard: A Memoir," Days Lumberyard Studios: Provincetown, 1914-1971 (Provincetown: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1978)

-Doug Rugh