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“Boathouse Talk”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel.

A truly gray day, a few days ago. This is always a nice place to duck into out of the wind, but the mist made it more complicated. Buds slowly starting to swell are incrementally changing their color shade. The wetness only intensifies the color values darker. My kind of drama in the landscape…

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“Pear Piece”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

It was not nice outside today… So I decided it was time for a still life. I had been saving these pears for just such an occasion. The fabric and layout fell easily into place, an unusual happening…

“Tendering”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

The coloring of the boats is such a nice contrast to the indecisiveness of the winter landscape. Yet, even their colors were tempered by a cloud layer moving in and softening the sun’s light. Next time maybe I can follow my own script without a major lighting change in the middle of production…

“By the Black Dog”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Ferries come and ferries go. This one caught my attention at the end of the day. It comes into the harbor, but has to turn around before it docks. For the artist, this means that it stays in one place long enough to paint it…

“Honor Guards”, this is a Medium size painting, 18″x 24″, oil on canvas, unframed. $3750.00 USD

Although reworked recently, this medium size painting was created in July, out on location. It was a foggy afternoon/evening. The light source was muted and unchanging. I
was able to work for much more than my 2 hour limit without fear
of losing my initial vision due to shadows moving. I have always
loved to paint tall daylilies and these were as tall as me. I could look
straight at them instead of down upon them, giving me opportunity to put in their landscaped background, the Polly Hill Arboretum…

“Autumn’s Eve”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

This may not look like a protected place from which to paint, but with a West or North wind it is. The sun was dodging in and out of clouds when I arrived. I almost didn’t see this glowing opportunity as it was clouded at first. I like to get out and walk a little to “feel” a vista. I take a few reference photos with my iPhone’s camera. They’re not the best photos, but good for reminders. I had done all this and was about to wander back to my van when I took one last look at the boat. The sun had broken through and the reflection on the boat was stunning…

“Salt and Fresh”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Painting today was short, sweet and quick! It was about 37º f. with a 12 mph wind in my face. I could not have done it without wearing my gloves and snowsuit pants (plus hooded shell, vest and fleece). That makes it a record fall of painting without gloves until Dec. 6th. This time of year the sunsets tend to linger. The sun does not just drop straight down below the horizon as happens around mid summer. It eases over the edge of the earth at an oblique angle to the horizon and not close to 90º as in the summer. This gives us an infinitesimal bit more light and also amplifies the red end of the spectrum. In low light landscape painting, more red is usually a good thing!…

“Fair Will Be Here” , this is a Medium painting, 16″ x 20″, oil on canvas. $1850.00 USD

This painting is a 16″ x 20″ oil on canvas which I began in August. I had to do a u-turn when I drove by this. I love to paint hay bales out in the fields, but to have not only a tractor, but a red tractor in the field was just way too much for me!!! This was the scene 3 days prior to the set up of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Fair. In a “normal summer” this hay would have been cut and baled in July and this field only mowed at this time. Weather patterns don’t seem to be normal anymore…

“Evening Magic”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I found myself in the perfect place to capture this after-sundown painting. An unknown oysterman, just hauling in his catch and boat as the sun sank, gave me a half dozen oysters to take home. Just because we found ourselves sharing this moment on the beach!…

“Sheriff’s Meadow”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The grey day brought out the colors, but not the cheerfulness of this scene. It was the end of daylight and the waterfowl were starting to settle in for the night. The faded reds of the bark and next year’s buds gave the landscape an extra breath of life…

“Sea Level”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The water front calls me and sometimes I listen. This was a quiet out of the wind place to paint. It was near the end of the day and all fishermen had long since gone home. Except for a passing Coast Guardsman, I had the place to myself and, of course, a pesky seagull. It couldn’t believe I wasn’t a fisherman working with some tasty morsels. I finally had to pull my canvas bag under my easel so it wouldn’t keep trying to sticking it’s head inside. But I’d rather this pesky seagull than mosquitoes any day!…

“Awaiting Your Pleasure”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

At the far edge of the pond my friend had left her little dingy out after leaving for the winter. Lucky for me! It is irresistible to my painter’s eye with it’s vibrant blue seats and clean white colors against the fading fall scenery…

“Yonder Menemsha”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I climbed to pond level from the overlook parking area above. In scouting the shoreline for “my” spot, I found a private path leading down from a summer home. As I set up easel and gear, I looked around and realized I had a perfect view diagonally across the pond to Menemsha. The sun was low and reflectively gleaming off the white Menemsha Coast Guard Station buildings, making them exceedingly visible from my distant location. The marsh grasses and all other vegetation have donned their Autumn mantle of multi colors. With the looming shadow from the hill behind creeping forward, I was rewarded with muted colors in contrast to the sun-streaked highlights on the near shore. A small dingy drifted by with its lone occupant so intent on dip-netting for bay scallops, that he never even saw me painting not 25 feet away…

“A’s Rose”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I picked this rose the other evening when it got down to 31 degrees, just in case. Today it rained all day and winds gusted to 50 mph. I was happy to stay in and have this flower to work on…

“Out And About”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Today felt like a rigid, structured day. What better subject to match my feelings with than a light house. The light has those soft curves to it and the contrast of black and white. While the house has all that angularness and sharp corners, but with the color complements of red and green. The landscape horizon with a tiny stopping point of sail and boat give a sense of the grandiosity of the reach of the light. And I feel better now…

“In Port”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Sometimes the image is right in front of my nose. I know its there, but, I just cannot see it. I circle around. Look left, right, straight at it and still can’t see it. Walk off. Walk back. Stop. Take in the whole of the scene and there. There is that fragment I want to portray…

“Wake Up Call”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

A beautiful, but cool start to the day. It didn’t last much past the mid morning when a cloud blanket moved in. A sunny start lifts the spirits and is always appreciated no matter what happens to the rest of the day…

“Red Beach”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

All the other row boats and kiyaks here were safely up in the dune grass while this little dingy was staked at the high tide line. If I stepped back two feet I would have started to trip over them. I chose to focus on this loner and also not focus on the vessels moored out off Red Beach, just to the right. The scene and the hour and the beach called for simplicity out of the complex choices offered and I obliged…

“Fiddlehead Farm”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I have been watching this view for two months, waiting for the garden to max out with flowers and vegetables. It is not often one finds a simple white backdrop for emphasizing the middleground. The weather was just a step away from rain. So there were definitely no shadows to accentuate or complicate the scene…

“Island Home”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The last time I was here at sunset, the sun was going down directly behind the far lighthouse and silhouetting the top. I missed my chance to paint it then. But 3 days later, the sun has already migrated south of the light and and won’t be back until next year. I feel like I sort of got a consolation prize with the light bouncing off the ferry boat…

“Right at Home”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

For a few years one could not get this close to the old brick water works building. The construction chain link fence has been taken down revealing a new painting opportunity. Of course, I had to take advantage of the situation complete with a friendly pair of Canada Geese! I am forever trying to get some red in my paintings and these old bricks in shadow are close enough. Red, the compliment of green, will always activate the greens in a landscape…

“Perfect Summer Day”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

The only good view of the water and hay was directly into the sun. It wasn’t until the sail fish came back from the beach that this painting started to really work. It is always a pleasure to receive an unexpected gift like that to paint….

“Broken Down”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

I knew all the farms were baling hay today because of the fine weather that has come in. I didn’t expect to find a baler sitting idle during daylight hours, but things break at their own pace…

“Nantucket Lightship”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Now this boat stopped me in my tracks! Freshly painted, the old Nanatucket Lightship under private ownership drew people to it as I stood and painted. This much red in the close quarters of the harbor in this light was almost too much…

“Butter Up”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Today was another rain out day among other things. So I thought a still life appropriate. Except that the still life I wanted to do in day light, had to wait for night lights. A friend visiting the island was rushed to hospital emergency room and I had pick her up when she was finally discharged at 2:30 am. She is ok, thanks for asking!…

“Off the Boulevard”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Upon reflection I have discovered that I do like to paint on these overcast days. The skies become a real challenge. I have learned that the sky maybe gray or grey. Grey is recognized internationally, whereas gray is only recognized in certain US states. There is a fine line when mixing grey to get it right for a particular sky. Just a bit too much red and it is lost and the same with too much yellow. And to make it worse, no matter what gray I think I have mixed on my palette, when it gets on my canvas it is something else entirely. Leaving me to resample and remix a few more times to get the balance right…

“Leafy Landing” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

Another windy gray day to contend with. This was out of the wind and I didn’t even have to put any gray sky in, or didn’t you notice…

“Evening Bud Tomorrow Bloom” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

While I was away, the cactus had just started to bloom. It makes them really stand out in the green sea of grasses flourishing after all the rains…

“Spring Fog, V.H.” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

There was a wind today over 19 mph which kept me from painting. While organizing my canvases in the studio, I found a few I had forgotten and had never put on my website. This would be wistful thinking about my up coming summer on Martha’s Vineyard…

“Chocolate Strawberries” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

My friend, Tiberia from Barking Rocks Winery, had a 5 foot by 5 foot by 2 foot crate of strawberries he had hand picked in his wine room! As I was leaving after helping syphon out some muscat wine, I thought maybe I should paint some strawberries before he crushes them all. By the time I finished this piece the chocolate had melted under the heat from my lights. It tasted great with the strawberries though!…

“Garden Ready” , this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 USD

I am finally getting around to gardening. I have just planted 4 Black Spanish grape plants, for future wine maybe. Now I am eyeing the flower garden. Picked these zinnias up and decided to paint them first…

“Wishful Thinking”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

This rose is done in the same fashion as the rose I did a few weeks ago. I had a commission request to create a similar rose. So I have done a little experimenting and painted two paintings at the same time of this rose from the same point of view. One rose was done on my usual orange/paperbag color, pretinted canvas panel, the other just on white. It took forever to do them and the second still doesn’t have the sky done yet. I will post the second one on my website next to this one when I complete it in a day or so…

“Rubber Bands”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

When doing a still life, I never know exactly what I am going to paint until I get into the studio. In this painting I had no intention to put the tulips in anywhere. Backgrounds, especially dark ones, are usually the last surface to be painted. Yet I wanted, needed some red in the composition and there were the tulips in the kitchen…

“Hello Goodbye”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I got too excited painting the flowers to put the vase in the painting too…

“Apples Wine & Swiss”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

I bought a bunch of different cheese the other day. This swiss was fun to paint, and to think about eating after! The apples were a bit of a challenge with some spots of yellow going into the shadow areas. Of course I didn’t drink any wine yet, or you wouldn’t be looking at this painting!!!…

“Oriental Rug”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

A small daffodil sitting on the table with the oriental rug off in the background…

“In The Bowl”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Some fruit I had to wait before eating…

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“A Thorny Question”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

The cattle rancher pulled out about 5 hay rolls for the live stock today. I couldn’t resist doing this painting after my afternoon walk through the pasture and seeing the lighting and positioning of this roll and cow…

“My Back Yard”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

Sunset with the sun to my back in the barnyard at home. The cattle hadn’t seen me painting in their field in 6 months. They all had to huddle around me as I worked. Other wise I would have painted one or two into this scene…

“Cheese Farm Hay”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I found these hay rolls when I went to buy some hand made cheese out in the country…

“Snow, Light”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Another start in the car painting and finish in the studio…

“Pomegranate In Two”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A day indoors contemplating bad weather and the color red…

“Greenhouse Road”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

An ocean view at sunset near the end of Greenhouse Road…

“Wild Rose”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A cold front was coming in, so I went out and found this rose to paint before the cold got to it. This was practically the last one in bloom on the rose bush outside my studio…

“Herring Creek”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I found this view by accident the other day when I was looking for milkweed pods for a larger painting I am working on…

“Grand Finale”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A moon painting I thought I wouldn’t finish. Guessed wrong…

“Rose Hip Moon”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Although I have painted this view recently, I did not have the rose hips in my view from where I stood. This just seemed right to paint the view again but with the hips in the foreground. And then I saw the moon as the clouds started to clear…

“My Point O f View”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Another gray day. This small copse of trees gave me all the color I needed to wipe the gray away…

“Marsh Lights”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Just before sundown I found this stone wall and marsh scene and knew this was today’s painting…

“Water Glass”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Today was one of those great fall days. I painted sunrise at 7 a.m. and then went off and found this painting waiting to happen. The water didn’t even stir the whole time I was there, except for when a few stray mallard ducks landed…

“Autumn Marshes”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A riot of fun fall colors invigorate the near leafless landsdcape…

“Place Called Squibnocket”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

A cloudy windy day which cleared out just in time for us to do a cool (as in chilly) painting…

“Kids Boat”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

It is hard to find a classic pond skiff to paint now a days….

“Boat Launch”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

An early morning painting down along the docks. Luckily it was blowing and none of the fishermen went out onto the water so none of their pick ups blocked our painting view…

“Creek Sunset”,, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

Just as yesterday’s painting was an opportunity to capture a fleeting moment, so was today’s. I came upon both scenes right as the sun set, grabbed my tools and painted into the darkness, trying to catch both the sky’s afterglow and the accompanying reflections on the surface of the water…

“After Hours”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

This is a location I have visited over and over in the day time trying to pull a painting out of. Really, all it took was to arrive at mosquito feeding time to see the mantle of the evening’s light clothe the seascape in queenly splendor…

“Tide’s Out”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

Normally, I could not stand where I did and paint this scene. However, full moon tides give more space between highs and lows and allowed this view to be captured…

“Fishermen’s Shacks”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

I got side tracked today on my way to the Post Office and couldn’t resist this view…

“Full Sail, W. Chop”, this is a Medium painting, 16″x 20″ oil on canvas, unframed. This painting has SOLD.

This is a larger version of the of the West Chop Lighthouse, from a slightly different perspective than yesterdays’ painting. Sometimes I like to paint this view with both Coast Guard houses in it and other times with just one. On this particular day I lucked out with an actual appearance of the classic schooner, “Shenandoah”…

“Rolly Polly’s”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.

Rainy day still life by the light of the window…

“T. Lane Locusts”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $500.00 US

I was out blueberry hunting and came upon this late afternoon scene. The barn was a rusty red and the locust trees appeared delicate against the warm yellow-blue sky…

“V. H. Water Works”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel.

I couldn’t resist painting the island’s other Water Works. I no sooner set up my easel on location than my cell rang with a request for a painting donation for the Preservation of the Water Works building. Thinking fast, I said I would do 2 paintings today and donate 1 and post the other. The presure was on, as someone was coming to pick up the, as yet, unpainted painting in 2 hours. They received a very nice wet painting to auction off and I was able to do this 2nd one …This painting has SOLD.

“Lemon Tomatoes”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD

“Here At Last”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel, This painting has SOLD.
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“Three Macintosh?”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“Its A Party”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Taste Good, Too”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“One Short”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, This painting has SOLD.

“Icicles”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“A Small Pleasure”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“A Far Cry”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, $500.00 US

“Pear Cousins”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“The Red Stripe”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, Sold

“Seven Peppers”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Pepper Parade”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Pomegranate or Two”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Wine and Pomegranates”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Holiday Cup”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel, SOLD

“Before the Snow”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″ oil on canvas panel

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“Huge Pink Peony”, this is a Large painting, 39.75″x 47.75″ oil on canvas, SOLD