Here are a few new portrait studies,two hour paintings that I've been doing at Kate Huntington's drawing group.....

For the past year I've been working with the Festival Ballet of Providence, doing sketches at their studio and at the theater during their dress rehearsals. It's been exciting working from life,again, with these great artists...their hard work and dedication has been inspiring, and capturing the energy and beauty of form has been challenging, but most rewarding........This summer I hope to have an exhibit of about twenty paintings and drawings at the Festival Ballet studio.

Here are a few recent portrait studies done over the last few months...although portrait commissions have come to a stand still, because of the economy, I continue to keep my skills up by doing these three- hour studies.....












This portrait was done last year. I showed a picture of it in an earlier blog as part of the interior it was in....it measures 30x36, and is oil on canvas...I thought it came out very well, although I would like to have put a shaul around her arms to add more movement and interest in that area,and also to take the focus away from her bust line and more towards her face.




















Here are a few landscape scetches I've been offering for sale on Ebay...to get bread and butter on the table......I often visit my brother in Rhinebeck New York,along the Hudson river, it is beautiful country,and there is a good audience from New York City for the pictures. I will continue to do more in that area. Location means a lot to people so I try to find familiar spots that also fullfil my asthetic needs as well.

Here is another of my showpieces done in 1979,in oil paint that I've shown over the years. Suzanne's dramatic personality comes through by the colors and her wonderful posture. She has great bone structure, which I took atvantage of by turning her head three quarters, while keeping her torso front on. The chopsticks in her hair give a sense of mystery.













I was born in New York City in 1949 and moved away to the Philippines, and then to Japan, when I was eleven years old. I returned to America at age nineteen and attended art school in Boston, Massachusetts for two years. I then entered the atelier of Robert Cormier, whom I had met in art school. The atelier was structured on nineteenth century French academic training, in which Cormier was trained, as well, under Ives Gammell. This group of students and teachers, known as The Boston School of Painting goes back to the 1890's. I attempt to carry on this tradition in my work and teaching.

This paintng is a recent work called 'Today's Forcast", dealing with the issue of global warming.The spirits of fate carry out their task wich has consequenses.

Landscapes are a big part of my repetoire, not only because the market is mostly dominated by them, but because they are my first love . Before I studied with Cormier, who specialized in portraits, I studied withHenryHenche at the Cape School of Art, in Provincetown,Massachusetts. Henche was a great master of outdoor Impressionist painting, in the tradition of Monet, and was nationally known. I spent three summers at his school, from 1969-1972.

Here is one of my landscapes of Provincetown, done in 1972, that is still in my collection. I'll never sell it, but I have made copies of it for those who want to buy one. It measures 8x6 inches.











This painting of a peaceful cove in Rhode Island was done recently, on location, which I sold to a collector. These have to be done quickly, in less than an hour, because of the changing light conditions, so I work small, this one measures 11x14.

Jan Gendron Artist

Although I do many landscape paintings, because that is what is in most demand,My great love is in doing portrait and figure work. To the left is one of my portrait commissions, done last year that I'm proud of, it measures 30x36, and took me six sittings, about twenty hours of work.

This is a portrait, in pastel, of a dancer, done in 1977. This work has been one of my showpieces. Valerie's bone structure and beautiful posture made this work such a great success. It has brought me many commissions. Dancers are experts at body language, which is why I have done many paintings of them.

Here is my ballet showpiece, done in1977,which belongs to a collector of my ballet pictures in New York. This work took me six months to complete, with thirty sittings with the model,ninety hours of work. I work totally from life because of the sublety of color and tone cannot be seen working from a photo. Although the pose is passive I believe I captured the posture, and the turnout of the right leg, which is characteristic of a well trained dancer.