Across the Canal 2010 Baby Onesie

I got a call from a friend of mine one night. He had a boat docked on the Erie Canal down the road from me in Knowlesville. I met up with him and we went for an evening ride down the canal. I saw this scene and remembered it. I came back the next day and drew it from life in ink. I later painted it in watercolor from memory. I had entered this piece at an exhibit that I was involved in at the Kenan Center in Lockport. The piece sold at the opening reception but the collector never came back for it so I got it back.

Arthur Barnes is a artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, watercolor, pastels and oils. He prefers to work directly from life and his favorite subjects are landscapes with an emphasis on nocturnes and scenes of the Erie Canal. Arthur has had little formal training but was fortunate to study a year under Juanita Greene Parks in 1982. She had studied under Reginald Marsh and Robert Brackman. Brackman was a student of Ashcan artist/ teacher Robert Henri. Since that time, Arthur has been on a consistent course of self-training in art with an emphasis on learning through experience much like the Ashcan artists. "You learn to draw. . .by drawing," his teacher often recited. Artists Statement on Nocturnes "Half of our...