by Jeffrey M Levine | May 29, 2021
Pandemic Sketchbooks This is a selection from my Pandemic sketchbooks. I sketched on the subway, in the streets of New York, in my studio, and after making rounds seeing patients. It was a very bad time and I saw first-hand how it impacted people, but I am lucky to...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 21, 2020
Painting in the Catskills There is no better place to paint like the Catskill Mountains. Close to New York City you can be totally alone with nature. With low hanging clouds and mists, babbling rivers and streams filled with trout, and rolling mountains this is an...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Oct 20, 2019
Making Art in Red Rock Country In the Fall of 2019 I attended the Red Rock Arts Festival in Moab, Utah where dozens of like-minded people enjoyed plein air painting in the spectacular desert landscape. I worked in both watercolor and oils, as well as my regular...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 10, 2019
Italian Riviera Plein Air Painting and Sketching Needing to refresh my artistic soul, I decided to start the new year with a sojourn to the medieval towns of the Riviera di Ponente, also known as Liguria, on the Italian Riviera. I packed my brushes, sketchbooks, and...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jun 20, 2018
Watercolors When done right it looks so simple, but its simplicity is deceiving. Watercolor is finicky and unforgiving, and depends on many variables like paper, pigments, ambient humidity, etc. The key is knowing when to walk away from a work in progress and put the...