Staying on the beautiful coast of Maine, with a wonderful group of artists, today the weather was not the best for Plein air painting, with access to a working studio next to the Hotel Pemaquid ,I was able to paint a scene from memory from the day before. Hopefully tomorrow the weather will be better .
Leaving this morning to go paint a Maine lighthouse.
While working on some other project ,I am posting a few sketches they would make an excellent assemble of small works they are 3x5 watercolors , I will have another one tomorrow , in the same family of colors. Email me if interested very reasonable price , nlcasey@charter.net
my work is original and copyrighted
My week end was so filled with family, cook out , yard work, trimming trees , cutting trees and not much painting , I have a few show piece started for the pastel show of new Hampshire, I must finish this week ,before I go to a week end painting retreat at a lighthouse in Maine , my week will go so fast, today it was very hot and humid and not used to this.
I posted this one last year at the same time , yes we should honor our Veterans , I am married to one and have two sons who are Veterans also . To all Veterans have a great day !
I am late posting today, I normally do it at night , but was too tired last night after a long day of working on the gallery , clean up time !
The month of May is going so fast , the long Memorial week end is the start of Summer for many , but I can feel the crunch of the gas prices already, I am wondering if many tourists will head up to Maine where I paint and sell my work, for the collector who does not want to spend on gas , just shop right here , we are always looking for new custumers . always take commission work , your home ,your cottage , your dog , the memory of a scene that means a lot to you .
A funny thing happened today , I woke up with my cell phone alarm thinking ,I better get up and hurry up to meet my walking friends with the dogs , I get ready, go to the cemetery and start walking the loops in this beautiful place perfect for walking , we usually meet at 7 AM , I do a few loops and my cell phone goes off again , I looked and it said 6AM , how could it be? I wake up at 6 , thinking my phone was off ,then I looked at the church steeple and yes it was 6AM , what happen the first time I was dreaming that my phone was ringing so I actually got up at 5 AM . So
Back home and back to work , I decided to work on more of my French series . I used to go at this time every year ,but I am skipping this year due to other family obligations ,I do have a lot of pictures I took for reference after the many trips I made in the area ,which is the Sologne region in center France.
Back from a few days in Maine, did not have much time to paint except for this little guy, 
At the pond for a few days, lots to clean after a long Maine winter. Just had time for a quick sketch today, the scene was in front of me this morning while having tea,
I don't know where my day went today, but it went fast and not much time to paint , I did take a ride in a country road near by , where I took lots of photos of some Canada geese on a pond , must of been 30 of them , a couple of them had a fight in the water , it was interesting to see.
Today I met with my usual art friends for breakfast , always nice to see them and discuss art related things, what show is coming up ?what outdoor show is next? when are we getting together and paint? did you see this on the Internet ? just a few things we talk about during our weekly meeting, some of us have done this for the last 20 years.
I watched a great movie last night , "The Impressionists ",true story of the French impressionists Monet, Manet, Renoir ,Degas and more, they paved the way for us with struggles , and the same struggles goes on today , must people think all we do is paint and have fun , a lot of work , for little money. We got it from Netflix ,two movies ,very good!
Mother's day today! I had a wonderful one with my family , my daughter in law cooked a delicious meal , the weather was perfect ,what more could you ask!
I came back to a very busy day, Art meetings all day, and a friend doing a demo tonight,
Back home after a long trip , a wonderful trip it was , to see Spring so beautiful , and being with the family. I painted these flowers from my son's tree yesterday.
Time to get home , tomorrow we will be driving all day to get back to Massachusetts,I have taken lots of reference photos and sketches to paint from , we had a nice time with the family.
Just a sketch today, but took a lot of nice photos of the area ,all the trees are just beautiful , Spring is a beautiful time of year! 
This is my grandson Carson who loves to paint with watercolors ,he will be the next genaration artist , we painted together today.
pastel 5x5 ,this painting is sold , but i do take commissions
oil 2,5x3,5 miniature , email me if interested nlcasey@charter.net
