Inspriration: This is John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo 1882

One of my favorite paintings by Sargent. Check out the Virtual Online gallery in my "interesting sites" section. An amazing collection. This painting is at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It is on my must list to see. His watercolor paintings are some of the best if not the best. From time to time I like sharing some artists work that I find inspiring.

New Exhibitions

   My lastest showings include: my watercolor "Wildwood Pier" December 1, 2009–January 4, 2010
  Small Works Exhibition
Manhattan Borough President’s Office Gallery
1 Centre St. - December 1, 2009–January 4, 2010
and my oil painging "Morning Cup" at the Art Students League
215 W. 57th Street, New York, NY
  Holiday Exhibition and Sale
December 4 – 24, 2009
  The Hoiday Show at the Artist Framer in Cranford, NJ
North Avenue and Alden Street
is showing four of my watercolors through January 2, 2010.

"NYC Skyline", Stephen D'Amato, Watercolor, 22" x 15" 1997

   This is an older watercolor, a favorite of mine that brings back a lot of memories. My good friend Mark was kind to lend me his Jersey City Heights loft for the weekend. His place has huge windows that offer this great view of Manhattan. I was really inspired to be there.

Painting at the JACS Studio Tour, in May 2009, in Cranford

This was a fun day. I shared space with another artist at the gallery Simply.
JACS offers art classes and sponsors events like the Artist Studio Tour.
A painting a brief bio of mine is in their 2009 event.
http://www.jcas.org/ARTIST_PAGE.html

Inspiration: this is Edward Hopper's "Mansard Roof"

   I find a lot of inspiration from some of Hopper's work. His watercolors are fresh and loose. He also pays a lot of attention to the warmth of light. Hopper painted watercolors on location. Although with some of his paintings with figures seem wooden-like, the overall feel is very interesting, conveying feelings of stillness, loneliness, isolation and notations of city and vacation life.

  This website of Hopper's work and life is really interesting. A scrapbook as stated. Take a look.  An Edward Hopper Scrapbook

Jersey City Skyline by Stephen D'Amato watercolor 12" x 16" (July 09)

This one is done from the Battery Park area.

Jersey City Docks by Stephen D'Amato Watercolor 12" x 16" (July 09)

I also did some painting around the Jersey City area this summer. Some of the old docks were still in tack. The park restoration committee will tearing these down quickly if they haven't already. I enjoyed painting that rusty old spindle/wheel on the right.

Side View of the Cranford Hotel by Stephen D'Amato watercolor (Aug. 09))

I did this small watercolor sketch this summer of the Cranford Hotel. It will be on display at the holiday show at the Artist Framer Gallery in Cranford, NJ. The show will be up until Jan. 2 of 2010. I was very happy with the fresh color and looseness of this one.