Setting Sun

Setting Sun

12x24 inch, oil on stretched canvas

Private Collection

This is one of my favorite views from Lane's Island preserve in Vinalhaven, Maine and I make sure to hike out to it on every visit to Vinalhaven.

Rocky Shore...

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Here's another one that I've started for an upcoming show in Maine, which now makes about 8 paintings that need a few more passes before the show. I hope they get done in time....

Day at the Beach

10 x 10 inch, oil on stretched canvas 3/4" thick

Available in online Etsy Gallery

A few more months until summer and we'll be hitting the beach ourselves!

My Brush

4" x 4"

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I'm off to the mall today to do some back to school shopping with the kids, so I thought I'd post an earlier painting symbolizing what I'd rather be doing. Honestly, I'd rather be doing anything else than shopping with tweens today...

...some more of the show

I thought I'd post a few more photos of the show before I head out to do some hiking with the kids this morning. I'm loving summer.

....and another

Here's a 6"x6" companion piece to yesterday's painting. I had some leftover paint already mixed up so I thought I'd whip up a similair one. Now I'll toss that paint, grab some different tubes, give them a squeeze and see what I end up with!

Evening Stretch

10" x 30"

oil on canvas

Still trying to figure out how these bright colors came to be, definitely not my usual palette.

No painting today

No painting today, so I thought I'd post one of my sketches, an idea actually inspired by fellow blogger Sandra Galda. A few years ago, before I took my first painting class, I decided to take a drawing class to sharpen up those skills before ever laying paint to canvas, and this little produce ink drawing is one of the first from that class.
I've been busy submitting paintings for various local exhibits, 20 total.... we'll see what happens. Thank you to a new collector who recently purchased one of my paintings, Overboard .

Fall Colors and Puking Pumpkin

I tried to keep this fall landscape quick and loose, almost abstract. I think I've been getting too "blendy" with my strokes and have gotten away from this natural looseness that I used to have.

Something to look forward to for me, I just signed up for a virtual workshop with Deborah Paris, a tonalist landscape painter, her work just makes me crazy, but in a good way.




....and here's the puking pumpkin from yesterday's post that my daughter created just in time for the trick-or-treaters.

Before the slaughter

My paints have not been cooperating lately so I've had to resort to quick sketches, I'm sure it's the paints and not me, right? Tomorrow, my daughter plans on gutting this sucker. She asked if it would be ok to make the pumpkin throwing up by having the guts spilling out of its mouth...heck yeah!