Wonderful show at Seasons at Calmore's Antique fair , the weather was perfect , made some sales , all this combined it was a great day!
Went to meet with my Art friends today, all of us have been busy most of the summer with shows, workshops, and family . It's now time to discuss our plans for the Holiday shows , the year goes so fast!
This is fall in Maine where the wild blueberry fields turn red , the landscape looks like a Persian rug , a beautiful sight to see.this is a 8x10 oil on canvas $150.00.
The relatives are on the plane to Paris ! they had a wonderful time visiting this area ,So back to work now.
well, I have had a busy week of traveling with my relatives and no time to paint, We have covered the most beautiful landscape in the area ,the colors in the western mountains of Maine were just beautiful, a drive to Canada Lake Megantic ,was spectacular driving throughout the Chain of Ponds. I have taking lots of photos and hope to paint some.
I will be in Kingfield, Maine the next few days showing my relatives this part of New England, the weather is changing , fall is in the air, the mornings and evenings are a bit cool , but beautiful sunny days, the leaves are starting to turn colors just about every day , they will miss the peak colors, but at least see a bit of the dramatic colors we see in this part of the world.
Today I took my relatives to the coast of Maine, and NH so many familiar spots I love to paint , the day was beautiful ! so I settle for a day of photo taking and plan a few paintings in the process while showing them this beautiful area of New England.
My time is limited ,today i took the relatives for a tour of the area , but i always have a backup to fall back .
Oil 6x6 on canvas $100.00
I was working on a commission today and was getting anxious to do something else , I had bought these fresh flowers at our local Farmers market and I just wanted to paint them before they would wilt on me, so I pushed the commission aside and just did an impromptu still life , but became very frustrated as it was just not coming out as I wanted . It was one of those days !
This is a painting I painted in July at an Art week end at the Fells garden in NH , these were beautiful sculptures by a very talented artist Lawrence j. Nowlan, They almost looked like real children. It was a bit of a challenge because you really wanted them to look like sculptures in a painting. It was a wonderful week end to paint in this garden as I mentioned back in July.
Voila #3 and for the ones who are not familiar with this house , Andrew Wyeth made it famous painting Christina's world and many other paintings were created there , it's now part of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland , Maine . A must visit if you love the Wyeth family and all their accomplishments in the American Arts.
Took a little artistic licence on this view and moved the water closer , I am thinking of doing a larger view of this one when I am finished with my commissions , I have so much work planed in my head , I don't know where I will find the time for all the paintings I want to create .
We are back home after a nice long weekend to mark the end of summer, so now back to some serious work . Over the week end I painted a few miniatures ,and this is one of them of this Historic house I have visited a few times in the last few years and i love the feeling you get when you visit this place , Guess who used to paint there? a very famous artist ?
What a beautiful week end, the weather has been great! enjoying walks with Clancy,taking photos of wildlife , a deer this morning , the loons that comes and visit . we have come here for 25 years and we have been so lucky to have a set of loons at all times ,I sometimes wondered how old they are? I know they always come back to the same pond, they have had chicks about every other year if the water level stays stable ,a hard thing to control as we never know what nature has in store for us. Loons are not able to walk on the ground, so it is must that a water level be very regulated for the eggs not to wash out of their nest on marches or weeds along the shore. they are fascinating birds and we do love them and watch out for them. If you have never listened for the sound of a loon , you are missing out a wonderful experience.
