“The Naked Season”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
A long walk near the beach found this tree to paint. The sky went pink and orange as the sun went down. A well deserved end to a beautiful, cool day…
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“Life Saver”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
Far away from all is this stretch of beautiful beach. It happens to have a bad rip tide along it. Stationed every so often there are orange boxes with rope inside and a life saving ring. These may be tossed out to the hapless swimmer struggling in the rip…
“Wind Swept”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
More cliff washed out in the past month’s winds and tides. A section slumped half way between the top of the cliff and the beach. I was able to stand on the slump, set my easel up and appreciate the new view…
“Pulling The Pots”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
None of the lobstermen appeared while I was painting this, which was good and bad. It is always good to paint without too much activity happening around me, but then there is no one to pose a question to about my subject matter…
“Moon Full”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I sort of knew where the moon would rise when I started this piece. But, I really didn’t. I hadn’t done a compass reading, nor looked at the astronomical chart. I was glad it wasn’t off in the pines to the right as I might never have seen it until too late…
“Fuller Street”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I came into town to paint a friend’s garden, but the frost had beaten me to it. The lighthouse was just down the street…
“Quansoo to Nomans”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
A good part of the late afternoon was well spent scouting new locations to paint. I also enjoyed a flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers, up close, who happened to be going my way. When my not-enough-time-left-to-paint alarm went off, I had no choice but to come down to the beach for an obligatory sunset painting…
“Autumn Field”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
I love this field and this tree and the edge of the great pond and the back of the dunes. I come here to paint and sometimes just to look, often. Each time it is different, the season, the hour, the day, the year. I almost always paint this exact same view. Yet it, also, always comes out different each time. It challenges my strengths and weaknesses and, even though I know this scene by heart, still keeps me on my path of discovery…
“Evening Grazing”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 USD
Finding sheep in this field is a hit or miss proposition. It is usually a miss. These are the rams of the flock and they are separated now from the ewes across the road. When they next greet the ewes, they will be very excited. In spring we shall find lambs timed to be born toward the end of March, otherwise they would be lambing all winter long. This year I also found a very cooperative sky for my backdrop instead of a bland blue one…
“A Grand Entrance”, this is a small painting, 6″ x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I try not to paint at the same place too often, but the sounds of the waves brought me back to the beach. This path is the only way to walk down to this section of beach, but what a view awaits. Even with this year’s salt burt colors of the local vegetation, it is a beautiful place…