The Artwork of Joseph Q. Daily
Posted on: Apr 22, 2014
I will be giving a live sepia portrait demonstration this Saturday, April 26th, at the West End Gallery in Corning, New York. The demo is part of the “Arts in Bloom”, a weekend-long countywide open studio & gallery trail. Five other artists from West End will also be giving live demos, and it should be a great time …
Posted on: Mar 10, 2014
Here in New York, the winter of 2013–14 has been hard and cold. Now that spring is almost in sight, I am looking forward to displaying the fruits of the season – along with some old favorites – at the West End Gallery’s “In the Spotlight” exhibition (March 14 – April 25 in Corning, NY). The show opens this Friday, 5:00–7:30pm, with food, drinks, and live music …
Posted on: Mar 02, 2014
In case you missed it, last month I was featured on the cover of Mountain Home Magazine …
Posted on: Nov 24, 2013
I’m excited to have a number of paintings hanging in the West End Gallery’s upcoming “Director’s Choice” exhibition. The show opens this Friday from 5:00-7:30pm and will include some of the best work I’ve ever done! …
Posted on: Jun 25, 2013
This spring, I gave a private lesson to a local artist friend of mine. We set up our easels side by side, and I did my best to explain my process as we each worked to capture this still life arrangement in oils. Once it was over, I had already invested so much energy in describing my painting choices that it seemed like a natural opportunity for a step-by-step writeup …
Posted on: May 01, 2011
This little painting was my contribution to this year’s Portrait Society of America “6×9 Limited Size – Unlimited Talent” fundraiser. I have no idea what became of it at the event, but here’s how it was created…
Posted on: Feb 22, 2011
For the most part, I have two gears as a painter – one for paintings that I build up wet-over-dry, letting each layer dry for days or weeks between coats … and one for smaller paintings that can be completed in one or two sittings while the paint is still wet. This little picture is a good example of the latter – 12″ x 8″ and completed over the course of a long day…
Posted on: Mar 12, 2011
On March 12, 2011 I am returning to my old stomping grounds to conduct a sepia portrait workshop at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA. Participants will learn to create “sepia” oil portraits using just Raw Umber paint. Sepia paintings can serve as finished works of art or be used as underpaintings – when painting from life, I start almost all of my color portraits this way…
Posted on: Dec 05, 2010
I recently returned to painting for the first time in quite awhile, having spent the Summer and most of the Fall hard at work on my mother’s house. It felt great to be back at the easel, and I especially enjoyed getting my money’s worth out of a couple of friendly roses that I found at Wegman’s…
Posted on: Aug 02, 2010
Last year, John built an Asian-style pagoda for our neighbor across the street, and together we turned the main rafter beams into dragon heads. It was a wonderful collaboration – which even ended up inspiring a painting – and we’ve been looking for a chance to repeat it ever since. Enter my mom’s house … carving out bear heads for the second-floor overhang has easily been the most enjoyable step in this building process. Here’s how it went…