Every year Bloomsburg area schools allow their art students to paint the store windows of participating Main Street businesses. Some paintings are signed, others aren't. These are my selections for some of the best this year...
One of the most creative wasn't on a window at all, but on a reflective brushed stainless steel surface in the entryway for the offices of Atty Patrick O'Connell (above.) Using a flash allows me to show you the brushwork and plays up the reflection of the surface, which I can't help but think was part of the attraction of the surface for the artist. I really like the jagged background here, too. Kind of a Dr. Caligari/graphic novel feeling. There was a signature on this peice, but I couldn't make it out.
This whimsical devil was painted within a small old wooden frame window on Hess's Tavern. He has a lot of character, and it's an appropriate style for a pub, I'd say
Below is one of the award-winners this year, and it's also one of my favorites. (And not just because I'm a Johnny Depp fan.) I did a double take from across the street, wondering if the image on the window of An Evolution in Bloom was a commercial poster. My shot couldn't avoid a band of sunlight across the image, but I think the random compliments the image rather nicely, and the reflections of the trees across the street (background, top) work pretty well here, too. This is one of the signed works; the artist is Alexandra Buckley.
The graceful Jack Frost/autumnal spite figure (below) on the window of the Remit Corporation recalls Egyptian hieroglyphics...or evokes an alien Audrey Hepburn. It's the work of two artists, Molly Kocher and Keyla Holdren. Subtle colors. Some nice texture, going on, too, which is unfortunately not conveyed in this reproduction.
Vincent Hron's show "Everyday Beautiful" is at the Haas Gallery on the campus of Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA until December 4th. To see a few more of Hron's paintings, go to the Crow's Nest at http://home.earthlink.net/~sestemont
Every year Bloomsburg area schools allow their art students to paint the store windows of participating Main Street businesses. Some paintings are signed, others aren't. These are my selections for some of the best this year...
This whimsical devil was painted within a small old wooden frame window on Hess's Tavern. He has a lot of character, and it's an appropriate style for a pub, I'd say
