The last week or so I have been doing all kinds of busy work to get ready for some upcoming shows. It’s not awful work, but I’m sick of it, and as soon as the sun is out for a full day I’m looking forward to being back out there. This was a recent painting of Rockport harbor as the greens are just starting to come out on the trees. This is a scene I painted a few times already this year. Once in winter, covered in snow. Once in spring with browns and ochers, and here in early spring. It’s fun to see how the landscape changes with the seasons, and especially as it happens to one specific location.

Floweing Fruit Tree...

This was painted back when we still had sunny days here in Maine. I want the sun back. I want to paint outside again!

This canvas is 24×24″ and is a painting of a fruit tree close to my front yard.

Studio Visit?...

The Collective, a fun group sponsored by the  Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, is hosting a studio crawl this Saturday afternoon. There are three stops, including my studio. It looks like a great time. We’ll be going to Tim Higbee and Jessica Stammen are the other stops. Both of them do some great work. I always love to get a peak at someone’s creative workspace. If you want to learn more you can go to the website for the Collective. If you want to know more feel free to ask in the comments section here, or send me an email. There will be snacks and refreshments on the bus that’s taking everyone around, and I’ll have a few treats for people coming to see my studio.

Today was a good day...

I’ve been painting as much as I can lately, and had some real roller coaster days. I’ve had a few really rough days, and others that have been really productive. It’s one of the hard things to figure out about making artwork. You can never really plan for how a day of painting will go. Sometimes it seems like I have almost no control over how well a painting will come out as I start it. At least today was a good day. Now I can only hope for a good one tomorrow.

I want to recommend a friend’s blog. My friend Jessica Stammen is a painter friend with a great blog. She has been putting a lot of work into her website, and has been posting regularly on her blog. Jess is a great painter and also posts some fun images from her adventures in life. It’s a fun one to check out.

Tug...

This was painted after a long day of struggling in Belfast, ME. I drove up there to look for some new scenery and got wrapped up in some difficult paintings that I’m still trying to fix. I’m not sure if any of the others will see the light of day, but this one I am happy with. I let go and just relaxed a bit. The colors of the scene were fun, and I let the brushwork be a bit more expressive. It can be harder to loosen up and paint with simple expressive brushstrokes than it is to put in all of the details in just the right place.

I also want to mention that the gallery I show with in South Carolina has started a blog, which you can link to here. They are just getting their first few posts up, so stop by, check it out and say hi.