suns along the Mohawk

I started putting photos on canvas in late 2022 and have been very pleased with the results, which I will share on this web page. [click on an image for a larger version] Many viewers ask whether they are paintings, due to the texture of the canvas, and I’m tempted to say “yes!” Additions will be made here as new canvases arrive, so please come back for more scrolling. The canvases are either 16″ x 20″ or 11″ x 14″.

The first two examples are scenes from Schenectady’s Riverside Park along the Mohawk River:

. . [above] happy toddlers on the pedestrian walkway (2021); and [below] sunrise behind the CSX trestle with a flash-freeze flood at the play-lot (Jan. 2018) . .

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.. and here’s Santa & Lawrence the Indian after the Stockade Tree Lighting (Dec. 2022).

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Below: our new Schenectady Train Station (2020)

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. . . . Also below: Looking west from the Riverside Park Overlook toward the Isle of the Cayugas with ice sheets on the Mohawk (Feb. 2022)

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NOTE: As described in our April 1st 2023 webpost, many of the photo-canvases on this page were on display during April 2023, at the “cozy and intimate” Moon & River Cafe, 115 So. Ferry St. in the Stockade neighborhood. Many thanks to all who came to our Reception on Tuesday, April 11, from 6 to 8 PM, with music by the Dave Kitchen Trio, and to all those who dropped in througout the exhibit.  . . . With gratitude to Richard Genest, proprietor chef. and Olondo (Otis) Hundley . . . . . And, humble thanks to Indiana Nash and the Daily Gazette for a fine article; see First Part and Second Part.

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. . Above: Four scenes with the Riverside Park playlot slide, the only piece remaining from an eclectic, charming set of playground equipment, which many kids and adults came to love, but which was removed by the City in 2015. 

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.. Looking east up State St. from Proctors Marquee (Aug. 2018):

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. . (above) sunflowers taking a stand at 207 Union Street . .

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 . . Riverside Park playlot slide (Nov. 2015) . .  

  . . (below) Park slide during Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee flooding:

. . below: viewing Scotia from my favorite Riverside Park bench in the morning golden hour (Dec. 28, 2008):

 . . and, an ice floe jam at the Park overlook in March 2011:

 

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The popular Red Dancer sculpture at Union College (by Jack Howard-Potter) looks pretty good on canvas, especially with Jackson’s Garden showing-off autumn colors behind it (last week of October, 2022).

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. . and, the Jackson’s Garden Gazebo was inviting . . 

Here are several more photos on canvas I hope you’ll like: Scroll over each square tile for a description and click on one for a larger version (Note: Clifford and other popular playlot fixtures were removed in the fall of 2015, to “improve” the playlot using modern, generic fixtures, with only the Slide kept).

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Our 2022 Stockade Spring beauty included the 1st Presbyterian Steeple overlooking St. George’s Cemetery and its magnolia tree:

Sunsets over the Isle of the Cayugas along the Stockade section of the Mohawk River in the summer of 2020 [below, L] and blossoms from around Schenectady were made into collages and put on canvas:

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. . above: cherry blossoms on Washington Ave. in the Stockade, and at Congregation Gates of Heaven, City Hall, and Central Park Rose Garden . .

. . the City Hall photos in the above collage and on the canvas below are my memorial to the beautiful, healthy cherry blossom trees needlessly removed in 2019:

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  Right around the corner from City Hall, on the Franklin Street wall of Pizza King, a mural celebrating a famous caterpillar and butterfly pair appeared in June 2022, thanks to artist Oscar Bogran, the Schenectady Kids Art Festival, and some helpul small hands. [see image on the Left]

Soft sunlight made the patio at Johnny’s Restaurant and the Center City façade, State Street at Jay Street, particularly pretty in this image on canavas temporarily hung over my breakfast table:

. . and, looking east along the Proctors block (2016):

. . while golden sunlight warmed a November 2018 Sunday on Jay Street:

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JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2023: Here are a few more of my photos on canvas [scroll over a square for a description and click on it for a larger version]:

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. . here’s a winter 2022 Stockade scene with a spotlight on the steeple of 1st Presbyterian Church:

. . also in winter:

. . above: Campbell Row town-houses, 23 Washington Ave. in the Stockade (2022). .

. . below: sunset over Isle of the Cayugas seen from Riverside Park Overlook (Feb. 20, 2022). .

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. . Historical Society Sign with Cherry Blossoms (2014) . .

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. . the Riverside Park Tulips along the Mohawk (2018) . .  

. . were as lovely as our now-traditional Valentine’s Day Flamingos at Lawrence Circle (2014):

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. . our Central Park Rose Garden has a fine fountain; the wheelbarrow reminds us of the many volunteers and the work they do to make the Garden a beautiful attraction . . 

Added MARCH 2023

. . remembering Lady Liberty at her home for 57 years in Liberty Park (Sept. 2016) [L] from the front, looking toward State Street, and [R] from the rear, viewed toward Washington Ave. and SCCC . .

added in APRIL

Below: two 2020 sunsets on the Mohawk and over the Isle of the Cayugas [seen in the triple sunset canvas above:

JUNE 2023 ADDITIONS

 . . blue heron takes off from its floating branch (Oct. 24, 2009) 

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. . above: two sunflower scenes at 207 Union St. (2022)

below: Lawrence Circle during tree-lighting ceremony (2022)

MAY 2024 ADDITIONS

above: A photo taken April 20, 2024 at Congregation Gates of Heaven, Eastern Parkway and Ashmore St. in Niskayuna, with its majestic weeping cherry blossoms; below: cherry blossoms seen on Washington Ave. in the Stockade, looking south from Cucumber Alley near the Schenectady County Historical Society, on April 15, 2024.

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ADDED in APRIL 2025

 

Canvases on Display at the First Reformed Church (Schdy) Atrium – Feb-April 2025:

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. . below: 1st Reformed Steeple, Stockade Walkabout 2013 . .

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. . from my Facebook Page: Canvases on Display at SCHENECTADY TRADING COMPANY – March & April 2025 

ADDED SEPTEMBER 2025

. . Lawrence Circle At the Golden Hour (April 22, 2025)