Fly Fishermen

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

$725. + S/H

Michael's grandson was up all week learning to fish. They took a canoe out to Blueberry Lake and the Waterbury Reservoir and I painted near the launch. What nice halcyon days!

Pine Tree

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

$99. +S/H



Demo for my plein air class on Wednesday. Trying to capture some intimacy with the woods here in Vermont!

Phay Bust

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas board

$225.

Mad River Valley Plein Air Paint Out

Bridge St Barn



10 x 10 Inches Oil on canvas

Saturday was an all day Plein Air Paint Out
on Bridge Street Waitsfield, Vermont
in the Mad River Valley

9 participants for our 2nd one.
We tried it a few years ago, but I was the only participant,
so can you call that the first one?? Well they were both advertised
so I guess you call it our second one.

Brandy Sitting

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas



Head Detail

Drying Off

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board SOLD
We had a bet who could bring less stuff, the loser had to do a portrait of the other.
I lost in nearly every category: food, clothes, studio, etc!
So this was my payment to Gail, knowing she would never sit ...
so I told a photo of her and did the painting from it.



Here's some of my paintings I did while I was in Maine with the mackerel on the platter in the center 24 x 18 inches. I'm in the process of framing them now to get to my galleries.

Ocean View

24 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

I thought the picture of the view lined up with the painting was too funny.
So little amuses the artist.

Laundry Line Blowing

24 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

$975 from Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe VT

What's better than summer laundry?
Just love the shapes of the shadows,
the translucent sheets,
the vessel to carry the laundry,
the autonomous line on a pole
rather than between two points
.... all good. Go Green!

Seal Cove - Isaiah's Head

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas SOLD

(Here's nearby beach from cliff - reposted from 2008)

Big Wood Island, Maine

10 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

This duel subject offered an interesting challenge in composition.
The foreground rock has intrigue to offset the mystery of the faraway island retreat.
I like the intimacy of the scale of this painting.



Beautiful view on Big Wood Island from West Point Beach.
Kids had a blast...

Two Dinghys

10 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

$535 +S/H



This photo of the flat light day was taken off a computer screen, since I didn't have my camera that day while painting. If you notice the keel in the front boat, I adjusted the line because it looked "off" the way it really is - see in the photo? It doesn't seem to line up with the bow! Go figure. Unfortunately in this computer photo, you can't really see the colors in shadows etc. That's a good reason to paint from life!!



This was taken day later on brighter day.

Rainbow Rock

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Low tide and a dramatic looking rock with beautiful color gradations on it.
It has to be a special occasion, due to the uneven footing to set up and stand painting!
Mother & ducklings having lessons on fishing all morning.

Low Tide Early Morning Rocks

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas



This wet moss seaweed is pretty darn spring green in the early morning light.





The sound of the glug, glug, glug of the low engine going by to check his traps was a comforting sound at 7 am.

Ocean Waves Crossing

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

Standing on the beach, trying to capture the patterns and texture and colors while it's all moving...so absorbing to listen to as well.

Here's the start and you can see I'm painting over an earlier reclining nude that's getting retired!

Still Dinghy

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas Framed

$1100 + S/H


OK, here's the dinghy that was tied at the stern I mentioned in the previous post to keep it from sashaying around. Luckily I had it down pretty much before the lobsterman returned to dock to put his boat next to it and untied it.
There was a bright yellow label on stern and bright blue recycle bin on dock that I left out, because the primary color thing would have really been unbelievable. It made for a pretty good photograph though.

Available from my gallery in Stowe: Vermont Fine Art



I like all the stuff on the docks almost as much as the boats themselves.

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Wholy Mackerel

14 x 14 x 2 inches Oil on cradled birch

$715 + S/H

So the next day I painted this version smaller over a longer period of time in the direct sun. I froze it after that to save to put into a tide pool painting later in the week.

Here's the start




The lobstermen have such colorful accoutrements!

Mackerel Platter

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas




There's a fish story here...


a dingy was untied at one end (that I had tethered to keep in place) leaving it to blow about, which altered my "model"...so I chided the lobsterman and his helper when they came up the ramp past me and my easel plein air set up, "can't get no respect! You moved my subject!"
So he kindly asked a bit later if I liked Mackerel...and I gleefully said "YES!" It was a real beauty,

but my Michael said they are Heck to filet and very bloody, so I decided to paint it a few times instead of eating it! Best served in sushi probably if you're going to eat it.. (actually I have a can with red label on it that holds pencils with picture of mackerel on it from years ago). The story just never ends.

Maine Estuary

10 x 10 inches Oil on canvas



well the computer nearly died from overload of high res pictures...
But we seem to have figured out a back up plan for iPhoto on 1TB HD.

Meanwhile I have lots of paintings to share with one coming everyday that I did in Maine the last 2 weeks in June. Great weather and plenty of inspiration!