It's been a while

After working on finishing art work, making prints and getting ready for a couple of Art Fests, not to mention the Holidays I am back. Here's the first painting I am working of 2018 that I am working on.

It's a slate painting of the Octoraro Lodge 22
8 x 6
Acrylic on slate

My last show of the season

My last show of the season, Come visit me at the CHRISTKINDLMARKET at the Daniel Boone Homestead:
400 Daniel Boone Rd,
Birdsboro, PA 19508
Friday, December 8 & Saturday December 9, 2017
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Stroll through the Homestead grounds lit with luminaries and lights. Visit the Wayside Lodge and chat with a redware potter or sample some mead. See the General Store for your Daniel Boone gifts as well as other items from the gift shop including wooden toys, crafts and books. Grab a bite to eat or a warm cup of hot chocolate from our food vendors. Visit the craft tent (heated) with over 30 crafters selling all their handmade items.
I will be there with 2 original paintings from the Homestead and 1 painting on slate from the path behind the homestead.
I will have prints, slate art and notecards for sale. So please come out and support The Daniel Boone Homestead.

Semi Custom Framing Service Available

The most expensive part of a custom framing order is almost always the frame. So one of the best ways to save money is to use a standard size picture frame whenever possible. The use of ready-made picture frames makes it an economical and practical alternative to framing canvas art, photographs, pastels and watercolors, especially when custom framing is not the answer to your framing needs. By using inexpensive ready-made frames, cutting custom mats to fit a standard frame and clear glass I can put it all together to make people think you had it custom framed.  Even if art is an odd size, a custom mat can often be used with a standard frame.  And, if a standard size just won't do, I now make simple hand crafted frames. Do you have a frame you would like to re-use? I can make an evaluation to see if the frame is in good repair and appropriately sized. Contact me for your framing needs.

Building up my mini slate supply for shows

Selling as fast as I can paint them.

4 x 4 

Acrylic on slate

Midnight Moonlight

Morning Sail

On the Farm

Pumpkin Delight
Sold

Sly Fox
Sold

Turn Over A New Leaf
 Sold

On my easel - The Mill at Anselma (Chester Springs, PA) Start to finish.

After a few weeks off, I needed to get back into the swing of things. 

The Mill at Anselma (Chester Springs, PA)
12 x 8
Medium - Gouache

blocking in color and composition

Pass #2 - working on depth

Pass #3 still working on depth, adding some detail & adjusting color

Pass # 4 getting close to finishing, working on depth, detail & color

The Mill at Anselma
(Rt. 401 Chester Springs, PA)
12 x 8
Medium - Gouache

$275.00 matted & framed + shipping

Available at bill-kassel.com

scanned and ready for prints

Just off my easel - Sunflower (companion piece to a previous painting)

Just Finished
Sunflower
4 1/2 x 13 1/4
Gouache and watercolor
Original is spoken for...prints will be available
$110.00 - matted & framed (10 x 20 frame)
$50.00 - Matted print only

email me - bill@bill-kassel.com

This is the companion piece to go with the new painting.

Prints are also available for this.

$110.00 - matted & framed (10 x 20 frame)
$50.00 - Matted print only

email me - bill@bill-kassel.com

Just off my easel - Pileated Woodpecker

Just Finished
Pileated Woodpecker
(just for reference of size adult birds range from 16 to 19 inches)
8x12
Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper
Photo reference thanks to NatureRich Photography
https://www.facebook.com/naturerichphotos/

$275.00 (matted & framed)
Available @ bill-kassel.com