top of page
Search


Still of the Night, When Your Head is Anything But
We’ve all experienced what it’s like to be awoken by troubling thoughts. Common garden variety stressors or potentially life altering...
Bobby Padilla
Nov 13, 20193 min read


Reflections Along the Canal
Along the Canal, 2013 By Bobby Padilla Water soluble oil colors on chalkboard, 20” x 32” (framed) In General, artists are moved by water....
Bobby Padilla
Nov 12, 20192 min read


As the Crow Flies
October Murder (of Crows), 2010 By Bobby Padilla Mixed media on glass, 18” x 24” (framed) As I did the art festival circuit about 10...
Bobby Padilla
Oct 23, 20192 min read


Have Objects? Will Paint!
Full disclosure on a guilty pleasure, I paint things, not just paintings. Whether I’m in an Antique Shop in Maine or browsing the local...
Bobby Padilla
Oct 9, 20193 min read


Lamberton Conservatory
Untitled (Hibiscus), 2018 By Bobby Padilla Acrylic on canvas, 8” x 10” Untitled , 2018 By Bobby Padilla Acrylic on canvas, 8” x 10”...
Bobby Padilla
Sep 22, 20192 min read


What Is Lost May Never Be Found
The River Screams Through the Rubber City, 1990 By Bobby Padilla Oil on Masonite, 4’ x 4’ All throughout the long and laboriously...
Bobby Padilla
Sep 14, 20194 min read


September 5, 1933
Delores and Evelyn , Sisters in the Eternal Twilight , 2007 By Bobby Padilla Watercolor and Acrylic Collage, 14” x 18” (framed) I try to...
Bobby Padilla
Sep 3, 20193 min read


Jesus Christ, All I Want is to Express Myself
Sweet Jesus, 2019 by Bobby Padilla Acrylic on Antique Paper with paper clay sculpted frame, 16" x 12" This isn’t heavy for me. The...
Bobby Padilla
Aug 13, 20193 min read


What Does It All Mean?
At some point you’ve stood in front of a painting or piece of art asking yourself that very question. It’s easy to digest a landscape or...
Bobby Padilla
Aug 12, 20192 min read


I See That Light
The Lighthouse, 2005 by Bobby Padilla Mixed media on chalkboard, 12" x 12" The family and I have enjoyed our time vacationing in New...
Bobby Padilla
Jul 21, 20192 min read


Some Ghosts are Given Up While Others are Painted
Give up the Ghost...I mean you Stickball 1995 26" × 50" framed Oil on Canvas Poor inner city kids have limited paths out of their...
Bobby Padilla
Jul 7, 20193 min read


Death and the Sweetness of Remembering
Mission and the Legend of Timeless Love , 2015 by Bobby Padilla Mixed media on glass, 8.5" x 11" If you know me, you know how I feel...
Bobby Padilla
Jun 20, 20192 min read


A Thousand Words plus Interest.
Nocturne, Raven Paints the Night (2008) 8"×36" Mixed media on chalkboard These two pieces were completed in succession sometime in 2008....
Bobby Padilla
Jun 17, 20192 min read


The Declination of Fatherhood
Family Portrait 2015 Acrylic on wood, 32" x 48" By Bobby Padilla I'd like to think I've done right by my sons, but who knows? My opinion...
Bobby Padilla
Jun 16, 20193 min read


Rowdy Crow Garden Party
"Rowdy Crow Garden Party " By Bobby Padilla circa 1992-93, oil on wood (2'×4') As I've mentioned before, I would like to utilize this...
Bobby Padilla
Jun 8, 20192 min read


Of Service and Dreams Passed On
"Three Flags" 1958 by Jasper Johns My Uncle Dick spent 32 years serving our country. Both in the Navy then the Air Force before he...
Bobby Padilla
May 25, 20193 min read


What Time Doesn't Steal
"High Flying Love " by Bobby Padilla for Roc Paint Sip I recently presided over an event at a local nursing home. The activity was to...
Bobby Padilla
May 21, 20192 min read


A Method to the... Memory Making.
Rhapsody Fire #9 (2016) by Bobby Padilla for Roc Paint As most of you know we had a studio at one time, before we shifted to mobile...
Bobby Padilla
May 8, 20192 min read


Art Therapy
From time to time we all feel the crush of life. Smothered by the weight of our choices and expectations, and subsequent inadequacies....
Bobby Padilla
May 3, 20193 min read


Spring...A Limited Engagement.
Spring in Upstate New York is elusive. Though it's been Spring for over a month, it doesn't really present as Spring. It was snowing...
Bobby Padilla
Apr 30, 20193 min read
bottom of page
