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| IN THE HARBOR 8x8 oil, unframed, palette knife Click here to purchase I am thinking boats, harbors, lobstermen, fishermen, fish markets, waves and my summer trip to Maine This painting is textural with thick paint layered on with a palette knife. It is suitable for framing and looks best in a floater frame but you can also display this on a beautiful tabletop easel |
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| On My Way 12x12 oil on gessobord Click here to purchase There are definitely many sides of me in many areas palette knife and brush desert, Europe, flowers, street scenes, buildings, architecture still life, landscape, seascape, interiors impresionistic, alla prima studio artist and plein air artist I cannot be put in a box in terms of subject matter The world is too full of magnificent beauty So paint I must and travel I must Two more trip in 2014 two weeks each Maine and France |
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| 8X8 oil on gessobord Click here to purchase
You may wonder about the title but if you are an art aficionado, you need read no further. Starting in the 19th century, Cape Ann, which includes Rockport, Gloucester and other quaint towns, has been host to many of the very best, most celebrated artists in America. A few of those include the great Winslow Homer; impressionists Childe Hassam and John H. Twachtman; and modernists Edward Hopper and Marsden Hartley.
Perhaps the best symbol of the legacy created by the migration of artists might be the small red lobstermen's shack located at the end of a wharf in Rockport, built around the time of the Civil War. I painted the "shack" as it looks today, but in the 19th century only the right end comprised the building.
In the early 1930's, while critiquing a group of students' paintings, several of which featured the little red shack, Lester Hornby, using a term often employed by French students to describe frequently painted sites, exclaimed, "What---Motif No.1 again!" His fateful words stuck and since then the little red shack has been referred to as "Motif No. 1"
Seascapes are very appealing to me and recently I have painted several. I will soon post them here. Many more will come as I count down the months until I can spend two weeks in coastal Maine, Andrew Wyeth country.
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| 12x12 oil on gessobord Click here to purchase I love coastal living but here I am in the beautiful desert of New Mexico Within one month I have attended two workshops: one with Leslie Saeta and the other with Dreama Tolle Perry. Their style of painting couldn't be much different, yet I love them both, style and subject matter. I painted "VENTURA HARBOR I" with Leslie, en plein air, palette knife only. We were set up so that the sun was not a bother. Leslie uses a limited palette of five colors plus white: Cad Yellow Med, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Green and Sap Green. On the day we painted the ocean color didn't demand use of Phthalo Green though I have seen it used in many paintings, especially in the ocean paintings of Sorolla I recently saw in Dallas. The colors I used to get the above ocean color were Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue (for a bit of purple), Sap Green and Cad Yellow Medium. Yes, I am in love with harbor scenes and boats. My Pinterest website has a board of gorgeous ship, harbor and ocean paintings. You really should see it here. My plan is to continue this thread of painting and I have already scheduled two weeks of painting in Maine, in Andrew Wyeth country near Rockland. |
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| A photo of what I was seeing in Ventura Harbor You can see I zoomed in and greatly simplified my painting. |
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| GARDEN ARBOR oil on gessobord 12x9 click here to purchase |
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| SUNFLOWER IN WINDOW oil on gessobord 12x12 click here to purchase |
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| LAVENDER HARVEST oil on gessobord 12x12 These paintings were done in a wonderful workshop with Dreama Tolle Perry |
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| MS, LA, AND TX moved to NM Trip miles: 9999 Number of Lost Times: 444 Hit by rubber from 18 wheeler blow-out: 1 Number of new friends: 27 Favorite towns visited: Vicksburg and Natchez Number of New Hoppers accidentally met: 1 |
