Sparrows
January 13, 2019
Last of 2018
January 10, 2019
Maine Paintings
July 5, 2018
Back from my daughter’s wedding in Maine! One of the benefits of being a helpless male is that during the preparations for important events like this you are actually in the way and so are encouraged to take off and do your own thing. My wife insisted I go off and do these paintings! I know better than to ignore a direct order from my wife.
This is a painting of Ripley Creek, at a little bend in the road in Tenants Harbor.
It’s directly opposite my wife’s favorite view, which I painted in 1998:
The second, done the day after the wedding, is a view of the Camden Hills from Rte 133.
I love the Camden Hills and my original intention, when my wife suggested I bring my paints, was to redo one of the views I had painted more than 20 years ago, in 1996 and 1997.  I was very disappointed to find that the views I had painted years earlier were now marred by new construction and ticky tacky, but I did manage to find this almost untrammeled view.
Here are the 1996/1997 paintings:
Plein Air Season!
June 5, 2018
September – Part 2
October 2, 2017
Some more paintings from the past few weeks. FYI, I now limit myself to one self portrait per yer.
September – Part 1
September 11, 2017
August
September 11, 2017
OK, the first painting is a still life I painted in grad school 30-odd years ago. I was showing it to someone on Facebook. The Dighton painting is a result of a little game I like to play, “Ask the Local.” I stopped a pedestrian and asked her where I should paint and she sent me to this beauty spot on the Berkley line. Westport is on the Massachusetts south shore, Third Beach is in Newport, and Squantum Point is in Boston 1000 yards from the big painted oil tank on 93. The airport is in the distance and I couldn’t resist including one of the jets that flew directly overhead at a disconcertingly low altitude regularly.