Cathederal Rock Verso

Hello again, art lovers and blog readers!   This is Ellen Perantoni, painter of the landscape in oil, inspired by the Hudson River School masters of the nineteenth century.    I am settling my home and studio into Sedona AZ. now,  and joyfully indulging my love of color and fabulous light by painting the Sedona red rocks.  I am treated to this particular fabulous view almost every day as I drive to and from my new home.  The massive face of Cathedral Rock is world famous, as well, for its feature of a group of tiny spires that resembles the universal peace sign. You can see more of my art, including views of Cathedral Rock from other angles,  at www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni  and my e-mail address is eperantoni@yahoo.com

     The above view is still drying in my studio here in Sedona.   It is executed on a 16x20" stretched canvas framed as you see in a wide tarnished gold frame that brings the size on the wall to about 24x28".  It is priced $1900.

       Collectors and friends are welcome to view my art in my studio by appointment.   If you purchase a work of art from a digital Internet image you can return it for refund within 30 days if you are not delighted.  Most people feel my work looks better in actuality, with details and depth that cannot be appreciated from digital dot-matrix photographs.

        I hope you will enjoy this blog, with posts going back to 2007 and also including many images of Hudson Valley region paintings I did when I was living in that region.   To view earlier blog pages click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of this page.

      Have fun!  I would love to hear from you.   Ellen

Windows in Time, First Breakthrough

Hello, art lovers and blog readers!   This is Ellen Perantoni, painter of the landscape in oil,  posting one of the first paintings I have been inspired to create by my new home among the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona.   I felt the need to pursue warmth and sunshine and, in do doing, have settled among one of the world's most spectacular landscapes.  The rosy red sandstone cliffs here are a glorious anomaly of nature, described by one enthusiast as "like living in the Grand Canyon."   You can see more of my art on www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni and you can e-mail me at eperantoni@yahoo.com

Some of the caves and passages in these red rocks are decorated with petroglyphs by early Native American tribes,  and these intrigue and inspire me too.  A hint of same,  worn down by time, appear in this painting of a cave opening through which distant red rock formations can be seen.  An imaginary cave, I admit -- the beauty of this region is exciting in istelf, but this particualarr image exists only in my imagination -- and now on this canvas.

I executed this work on a 24x30" stretched canvas which I also painted on the sides so it resembles, as closely as I can manage, a chunk of red rock.  It is drying in my studio at present, and is priced at $4000.  I would consider a payment plan/fair offer from a sincere collector. 

Interested collectors are always welcome in my studio,by appointment.  To visit the studio these days you will need to come to Sedona -- not exactly difficult, especially at this season, when the January sun is mild and pleasant on most days.   The vegetation is more abundant than is usually associated with popular images of "desert" or even the "high desert", which is what Sedona is, at about 4300 ft. above sea level.   Most of the vegetation retains its deep green year round.

It is beautiful, and I anticipate a surge of joyous creativity here. 

 If you wish to purchase any of my art works through the mail, you an return it for refund within 30 days if youa re less than delighted.  Most people feel my art looks better in actuality than in digital images on the Net -- there is a lot of depth and detail you cannot appreciate in such photos.

I am working on more "Windows in Time" paintings, as well as paintings of views from my home and other places I love here.  

Have a great week, and I hope you enjoy this blog. I would love to hear from you. 
best, Ellen

Still Moment on the Hudson, August

Hello, art lovers and blog readers!  I have not posted in a while, far too long, because I have been moving my home and studio.   The geographic scope of my landscape painting has grown considerably with my recent move to the red rock country of Sedona, but I still cherish the beauty of Hudson River Country.  This work is unusual for me in that it was executed entirely en plein air -- that is, on site, on a still August morning on the path to the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson.  The clouds are still tinted pink and the texture of the reeds as they emerge from the water at low tide can be felt as well as seen.
This is Ellen Perantoni here, painter of the landscape in oil,  posting to wish you all a Happy New Year.

     This painting is on  an 8x10" stretched canvas,  simply framed in a flat wide gold traditional frame.  Fremed it is $600. and unframed the canvas is $500.  I have various frame styles I can show you.

       If you purchase one of my paintings from a digital photo on the Internet and you are not completely delighted with it, I will take it back and refund your money within 30 days.  Most people feel my art looks better in actuality, because my art has a depth that does not come across in dot-matrix photography. 

     I hope you enjoy this blog, with art images, art chat purchase and teaching info  going back to 2007.  To view older posts, click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of this web page. 

     Have a wonderful New Year! and keep safe and happy.  I would love to hear from you.

          Best, Ellen

My Open Studio Weekend was on August 10-11, 2013

Hello friends, art lovers, collectors all!  This is Ellen Perantoni again, painter of the landscape in oil in a manner inspired by the Hudson River School masters of the nineteenth century.   I'm revising this post as a memoir of the studio tour last month.   My studio and 35 other art/artisan studios in the township were open Saturday and Sunday, August 10-11  from 10-6. 

Some of the paintings in these blog posts and on www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni  were there.   Some were sold during the course of the weekend. including the sunset at left in the above photo.  The paintign on the right is still available at $1900.

A great time was had by family, new and old friends and collectors.  Thousands of people came to my town to make the rounds of the 36 artist and artisan studios.

This was my eighth year in the town-wide art tour and it was my last studio tour at this location, as I expect to relocate to Sedona AZ before next year's tour date..  After I leave the Hudson Valley I will be painting mostly Sedona area scenes.  Watch for those, and do keep reading.  I love to hear from readers!.

My e-mail address is eperantoni@yahoo.com  


   Best, Ellen

After the Rain, Red Rock Country

Hello, all!   This is Ellen Perantoni again, painter of the landscape in oil, in the manner of the Hudson River School.  My art is inspired by American's great master painters of the nineteenth century, and the slightly later Barbizon School of Landscape Painting..  Most of the paintings whose images I have entered in this blog since 2007 are interpretations of scenes from my native Hudson Valley.   Now I am a period of transition to Sedona in the American southwest, where changing needs have led to my also falling in love with the magnificent red rock country there.

This work shows  the expansion of my vision to include the two geographies.  Waterfalls tend to be rare and fleeing in the American southwest, but after a torrential rain you might see a cataract  like the one above,  transforming a previously dry hillside for perhaps only a few hours.   I was inspired to create this Sedona waterfall fantasy by my remembered images of Kaaterskill Falls in the upper Hudson Valley.  .

You can see more of my art at www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni and my e-mail address is eperantoni@yahoo.com

This painting is on 11 x 14" stretched canvas and is currently  in my studio  Framed as shown in a carved traditional wood frame it is about 16 x 19"  om the wall and priced $950.  I will consider a payment plan/fair offer from a sincere collector.  Or the painting will find its way to the display space of an art gallery which represents me.

I hope you enjoy reading the posts in this blog that go back to 2007.  If you wish to purchase a painting from an internet photo you can return it for a refund within 30 days if you are not delighted.  Most people think my paintings look better in actuality -- the detail shows better and they have more depth and liveliness. 

To read older blog posts, click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of this page.

Have a great week!  I would love to hear from you.

  Very best, Ellen

Path through Fields, December

Hello, art lovers and blog readers!  This is Ellen Perantoni, painter of the landscape in oil, posing today with an admittedly unseasonal view of a field divided by a row of evergreens.  I have been working on this painting for a very long time and just got it finished to my liking. The process of creating a painting is always an adventure and sometime takes quite a while, even years.  I live and paint in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, birthplace of the Hudson River School of art in the nineteenth century;  many of my paintings are inspired by this uniquely American school of art.  I am listed in AskArt.   Winter views and night views like this one are a departure from landscape painting tradition,  and I create them according to my own vision.   You can see more of my art on www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni and my e-mail address is eperantoni@yahoo.com

 This painting is on 12x16" stretched canvas and is currently on exhibit in my studio.  As framed in a museum quality carved wood frame it is priced $1100. and measures almost 24x20" on the wall.   I would consider a payment plan/fair offer from a sincere collector.  

If you wish to see this work or my other art before purchase I will show it by apointment at my studio, which is about 2 hours north of the NYC metro area and within a few hours of most points in New England, NJ and eastern PA.

If you prefer to view art in a gallery, I am represesented by the Driftwood Gallery, Peekskill, NY; Green, Saugerties, NY; and Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Hunter, NY.   You can also purchase my art through Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery, Bodega Bay, CA and At the Top, Rhinebeck, NY.

 If you purchase my work from an internet photo and are not delighted with it,  you can return it for refund within 30 days.  Most people like my actual paintings better than the digital photos, which do not show the depth and detail.

I have been posting on this blog since 2007.  To view more posts going back to that year, click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of this page.  I hope you enjoy the blog.  And I would love to hear from you!

   Have a great week,
  Ellen

The Storm is Over

Hello, art lovers and blog readers!  This is Ellen Perantoni again, with another panorama where the sky is a major, if not the principal. mover of the story.  Such views are frequent phenomena in  the Hudson Valley in summer, where passing thunderstorms have played a role in art and history since the days of the Rip Van Winkle legend.  (Rip's the fellow who hid from a thunderstorm and woke up up 20 years later). 

 I live and paint in today's Hudson Valley and as a painter I have too much to do to sleep when a thunderstorm creates such beauty in my world.  I want to do my best to capture it.  My art is inspired by the grand tradition of the Hudson River School of art and the beauties of the region, which are much the same today.  This blog contains my art, art chat, and purchase info.  My e-mail address is eperantoni@yahoo.com and you can view more of my art on www.artwanted.com/EllenPerantoni

     This painting is on 20x30" stretched canvas and I have worked on it for a very long time.  It is now drying in my studio and I plan to frame it in a traditional wide gold frame that will bring it to about 28x38" on the wall.  Framed, it will be priced in the $2900.range, or $2600. unframed as it is.  

     If you wish to see this painting or my other art before purchase, I am happy to show it by appointment.  My studio is in the Catskill Mountain foothills (west of the Hudson River) about 2 hours' drive north of the NYC metro area.  On August 10 and 11,  I will have an open studio as part of a townwide studio tour weekend, and this painting will be there if it is not sold first. 

   The studio is within a few hours of most points in New England, NJ and eastern PA.  Contact me for more info, and directions.

    My art is also on sdisplay in several galleries and art venues that represent me: in Peekskill, NY; Hunter, NY; Saugerties, NY and Rhinebeck, NY.  Specifics are given in other blog posts, or ask me for the info on the gallery nearest you. I also exhibit in temporary art shows.  

    If you wish to see more photos of this work, just ask.  If you purchase a work of art from photos without first seeing the painting in actuality, you can return it for refund wihin 30 days if you are not delighted.  Most people think my art looks better in actuality. 

    it is a beaufiul day outside and my paints and easel are calling. To read more of this blog just click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of this page for posts dating back to 2007.

     I would love to hear from you.  Best, Ellen