North End resident and artist Michael Dean shares his 24″x18″ oil painting of Terramia Ristorante on the corner of Salem and Bartlett Street. Headed for Dinner at Terramia, N.End is a commissioned piece Michael recently painted for former North End resident Matt Cook. The painting is a visual representation of Matt’s own charming North End story. Matt spent over ten Read More…
This is a 7″X5″ mini re-paint of a 20″X16″ painting I did from a photo I took a few years ago. The large painting sold, but it’s also been a popular matted print and a popular note card image for me. It shows a ‘working guy’ walking through the wooden doors of Mike’s as the Read More…
This painting was done as a commission from a man now living in Vermont, who went to school here, and now comes to Boston for business and had seen my work in the window of Silk Screening USA (which is down on Prince, across from the Corner Cafe). Along with a few of my oil Read More…
Here is Part Two of the two-stage oil-painting commission from Stephanie Rizzuto, a close relation to the subject seen here. It shows Leo himself, sitting outside of #81 Prince Street, waving to the people going by his apartment’s entrance. Part One was a view from much further back, showing just the building, without Leo. I Read More…
I did this painting as Part One of a two-stage commission from Stephanie Rizzuto. She’s related to Leo, the older man who sits out on the front step in a tilted-back wooden chair. This stage of the commission was to paint just his building, 81 Prince Street. Leo lives on the ground floor of this Read More…
This oil painting shows the upper floors of the building at the corner of Salem and Prince Streets. The ground floor holds Dino’s Sub Shop, where lots of tourists and locals go to get lunch while spending the day outside, or touring in the neighborhood. The painting has been in my hands for a while, Read More…
These two mini-paintings show two of the carved statues of the saints, which the neighborhood’s Italian clubs carry around on their shoulders during their saint’s particular feast days every summer in the North End. The residents and business owners come out to pin silk streamers of money onto the passing saints as crowds gather and Read More…
I just finished this commission for a nice couple living in the Strada building. They’re going to be moving to a larger, suburban place in about half a year, when their new baby starts walking. They wanted to have a painting that would commemorate their time in the North End, and figured I’d be the Read More…