Upcoming art show

On Saturday, November first, I'll be at the Junior High School in Hampton Newhampshire with about 15 of my original works and a number of giclee prints.
I'll be part of the Rockingham Craftsmen's winter arts and crafts fair. I believe I'm their token impressionist painter. This has been a good venue for me since I was asked to joing them a couple of years ago.

My latest Painting/Peggy's Cove, NS

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia is uniquely, stark and beautiful. It also has a quaint coziness that just begs for an artistic treatment. I have painted Peggy's Cove a number of times in the past but never this particular scene.

Due to health reason I haven't painted in a very long time. The previous paintings I've shown were all one or two years old.

This is my latest painting that I finished yesterday. It's and 11 by 14 inch acrylic that I will be showing this Saturday at an arts and crafts fair at the Junior High School in Hampton, New Hampshire. I think I'm the token impressionist painter for the group.

Salt Marsh, another view

The last image of the salt marsh on the Great Bay in New Hampshire, didn't actually show any of the Great Bay. This was a pastel painting that was completed a couple of years ago. It was late fall and there were still leaves on the trees but they had been thinned considerably.
The painting has been sold.

The Boardwalk

In Stratham, NH is the Great Bay Science Center. From outside their backdoor there is a wonderful walk through the woods onto a boardwalk that takes you on a mile long walk through the salt marsh on the Great Bay. It is a delightful nature walk and often bird watchers will set on some of the benches there and watch birds by the hour. Every year the science center has an art show and sale of art featuring the great. This was my entry last year it. I had many favorable comments that seemed sincere and not gratuitous but unfortunately it went unsold. It is depicting a autumn evening on a less open section of the boardwalk. Anyway, I liked the painting.
The painting is an 16 by 20 inch acrylic and if anyone is interested, it is availabe to anyone in the US and Canada for $200 plus $30 shipping and insurance. The painting is framed and will be shipped framed. Credit card payment can be made through paypal even if not a member of paypal.

Flying Low

This an acrylic painting, 10 by 13 inches of the Beaver float plane. It is an aircraft used extensively on the lakes of Canada. It's one of the most reliable aircraft around and I think it's made in Canada. Good for our Canadian brothers.

I've always been partial to radial engines, they just exude power. The painting has been sold. Due to the non standard side, I have not had any prints made because I am unable to get precut mats for them.

p51, Mustangs

This is an acrylic painting of a flight p51, Mustangs. The painting has been sold but there are some giclee prints still available.

The Mustang was arguably the best fighter of world two. This image is grainy because I imported a very low relolution photo into this posting. My other images are too large to import.

This painting was sold at a venue in which I never knew who bought it, but I heard that it was a corporate sale.

Twilight Garden

I have painted a number of canvases in the "Strawbery Banke", a recreated colonial village in Portsmouth, NH, complete with reenactors and period craftsmen. This painting was of the Aldridge Garden which has this lovely archway.

I was painting with acrylics. As most acrylic painters know they darken as they dry. The day was actually a very bright summer day and I couldn't find shade to set up my easel, so I painted in the bright sunlight. While I was painting, I thought I was producing a nice bright summer's day painting. When I got home I was appaled at how the sun had tricked my eye and how much the painting had darkened as it dried. In a stroke of inspiration, I titled the painting "Twilight Garden" and it sold the first time I showed it.

A Painter Friend.

A friend of mine, Karin Wells is a fantastic classical artist. As well as traditional oil painting she also uses a medium and technique referred to as encaustic painting. It is a mixture of pigment and beeswax. It is a very involved process requiring much more patience than I possess. The process creates paintings of incredible beauty that look as if they were created by Renaissance artists. The attached painting is an example of encaustic painting.

She is also an incredible portrait artist.

Below are links to her web sites (she has several) and her blog site where you may see other examples of her work.

The link to her blog will give some background into the methods involved in the encaustic process.
http://www.karinwells.com/
http://www.oilpnt.com/
http://www.KarinWells.BlogSpot.com/

Turning Final

This painting depicts a vintage aircraft turning final to a grass airstrip. The scene is out of my imagination. However there is a grass airport about 15 miles from where I live.
The pilots among you can see that he is high and the turn will be wide but there wasn't space in the painting to depict a good approach.
The original was a 12 by 16 inch pastel on sanded paper. The original has been sold. However, I do have some giclee prints available.
I never flew a biplane but I think it would have been a ball.

The Fountain, Two Views

I have done a number of paintings in "Strawbery Banke" (yes that's how they spell it) in Portsmouth, NH. It is a small living museum of the period of the American Revolution and Historic buildings have been moved to the site and it's peopled with reenactors, and period crafters. I've been permitted to paint in there and here are two acrylic plein air paintings completed there.

They are both of the same fountain from two different vantage points. One view is through an archway of cedars and the other is a view from the lawn of the flower gardens.

Both paintings are on canvas and are 11 by 14 inches and are still available. The price is $150 each which includes a simple frame. Shipping costs run $30.

Two Sailing Ships

Ships are also a favorite subject of mine.

The first ship is a coastal wind jammer plying its cargo route. The rosey sunset is casting a warm glow over the scene. As all sailors know, red skys a night sailors' delight.

The second ship is my depiction of the whaler "Morgan" at twilight, the day's whaling is done and the rendering fires are reflecting on the sails. It is a lonely sight in the vastness of the sea. It has always amazed me that men could spend several years at sea on a 90 foot long woodenship. My painting is not an endorsement of whaling but a tribute to the men who endured the loneliness and peril of years at sea. I believe that whales have too large a brain not to be sentient and that killing an intelligent being is morally wrong.

Both paintings are pastel on sanded paper. Both have been sold.