New Oil Pastel

Still experimenting with oil pastels.

I just completed this one today.

Plein Air on the Piscattaqua

Gus, my Golden Retriever, and I went plein air painting along the Piscattaqua River in New Castle, NH. The only shade available was in a yard by the road. The owner of the property was walking down his driveway carrying a bucket. He said that he would be delighted for Gus and me to use his yard. He walked on down to the river and came back in about a half an hour with a bucket full of mussels.

I had about 80 percent of the painting finished in about three hours and finished it at home. I left the bottom unfinished as a vinette. It is an acrylic, 11 by 14 inches, on stretched canvas.

Great Bay Art Show/my two paintings

As I stated yesterday, I didn't have time to photograph my paintings which I put into the Great Bay Art Show. One of the paintings sold so I went down to the gallery today and photographed my two paintings for my records. The first painting is an 11 by 14 acrylic of the Great Bay Salt Marsh. The "Salt Marsh" painting photographed considerably darker than actual painting. The second painting is titled "Lanteen on the Esturary" which is an 8 by 10 inch acrylic on stretched canvas (sold). We do have a large historic lanteen sail that will appear on the Great Bay on rare occassions. It is a recreated gundalow, which was a sail powered barge carrying cargo up and down the local rivers and bays in the 1700 and 1800s.