John Fleck
jwfleck.bsky.social
John Fleck
@jwfleck.bsky.social
Artist and Teacher. Drummer.
Lover of:
Music (classical, jazz, rock, and others)
History. Nature. Environment. Science.
10” x 20” landscape in oil that I finished a while back
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today has been a Telemann day and I cannot recommend these 2 Harmonia Mundi recordings too highly. Wonderful music, performances, and recorded sound.

La Bizarre - Suites
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Telemann Violin Concertos
Isabelle Faust, violin
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
#telemann
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If you like this sort of thing, this example is exceptional:
Johannes Schenck • Le Nymphe di Rheno
Wieland Kuijken, François Joubert–Caillet
Ricercar RIC336
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Current listening:
Georg Philipp Telemann • Bassoon sonatas
Stefano Canuti, Chiara Santi, Diego Cantalupi
MV Cremona MVC02571
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Current state of my modular rig. Having so much fun with this!

#eurorack #synthesizer #synth #modularsynthesizer
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
sketch from near Lake Winnebago, WI in August

pen & ink, ink wash, and gouache
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I've always been fond of this one:
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A field sketch from last summer - Oregon, Lookout Point Reservoir
pencil & gouache
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This is quite lovely

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Nevermind
October 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A kind of life-affirming music that is desperately needed right now here in the United States of America.

Music at the Habsburg Court
Andrés Gabetta
Cappella Gabetta
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
October 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A wonderful new discovery:
Ernesto Halffter
Esquisses Symphonies, Rapsodia Portuguesa, Sinfonietta
Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt
Muhai Tang

CPO 9994932
September 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Acrylic painting I made from a photo I took in Maine
10" x 16"

#acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #impressionism #art #landscape #painting #contemporarylandscape #Maine
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Capricci
Castaldi Pellegrini
Albane Imbs
w/ Rolf Leslevand

Alpha Classica ALPHA1066

wonderful stuff
September 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This past Friday we tried pen & ink in my Beginning Drawing class at Lillstreet Art Center

This was my demo - an interesting tree I photographed in Maine

#art #landscapeart #penandink #penandinkdrawing #Maine
August 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I painted another chicken
8" x 10" oil on panel

#chicken #chickenpainting #oilpainting #art #poultry #farm #animalpainting #bird
August 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Yet another drawing from Maine. There was a hollow tree stump in the backyard of where we stayed. I liked the small plants coming up out of the shadows.

watersoluble Caran d'Ache pencils in toned tan sketchbook

#landscapedrawing #impressionism #art #landscape #contemporarylandscape #pencilsketches
August 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yet another Maine sketch of a tree - started on site by Sand Beach and finished later that night.

Winsor & Newton fineliner pens and Gelly Roll in Stillman & Birn Nova Series sketchbook.

#art #landscape #painting #contemporarylandscape #marker #pen #ink #Maine #Acadia #tree
July 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Another Maine rock study. I think this one was done by Otter Point on Mt. Desert Island.

Winsor & Newton Fineliner and ink wash with Dr. Ph. Martin's india ink (Bombay Brown) in Stillman and Birn Nova series sketchbook.
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A drawing from our trip to Maine last month. I was determined to draw rocks, and they have them. This pile is by the Bass Harbor lighthouse.

Uni Jetstream pen in Royal Talens Art Creation Sketchbook

#art #pleinair #drawing #maine #rocks
July 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
July 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Something I did when we worked with a palette knife in my Lillstreet Art Center Beginning Oil Painting class last session.
I enjoy painting fabric, folds, etc.
July 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Mighty Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night
Riccardo Muti conducting with the wonderful trumpet soloist, Esteban Batallán.
June 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Now playing & recommended:
La Ritirate
Chiaroscuro
Tamar Lalo, Enrike Solinis, Josetxu Obregón
June 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Calling this one finished. A sunset I saw in Wisconsin, done in oils with a palette knife. 14" x 18"

#oilpainting #landscapepainting #impressionism #art #landscape #painting #contemporarylandscape
June 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM