Surroundings II

Through the month of March I have 24 works exhibited at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. The paintings are mostly of the Freeport and Yarmouth areas with a few from Harpswell and Kennebunk. Please stop by if you are in Cape Elizabeth this month!

A MidWinters Night Dream Art Exhibit

Please join us for the opening of this group show at the Chocolate Church Art Gallery in Bath, Maine. The reception is January 20th from 5-7. I have a series of winter paintings in the show.

Group Show

Group show called "Impressions of Summer". Please join us at the reception May 7 from 4 to 7 at the Yarmouth Frame Shop and Gallery on Route One in Yarmouth. My contribution to the show will be a few of my "August Painting Challenge" oils like the one posted here.

Group Show

Please join us at the opening of a group show called "Painting In, Painting Out". Exhibitors are: Kathleen Daughan, Elizabeth Fraser, Caren-Marie Michel, and Diana Johnson. We will be showing recent work. My contribution to the show will be paintings of flowers. The reception is Friday, May 6 from 3-5 at Lucid Stage in Portland.

Primrose

Since it is a rainy day I am posting a painting that I did of brightly colored primrose. I purchased a German Primrose plant at Estabrooks and worked on a close-up focus of a few blossoms and a bit of foliage.

Quote for this post ... by William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850

"Primroses, the Spring may love them; summer knows but little of them."

Pears in the Sun

It was great to have sun all day yesterday. I painted three pears.

Quote for this post ... by Saint Francis of Assisi 1181 - 1126

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."

Painting Challenge - Color

After a long white winter I am looking for colorful subjects to paint. I am spending the month of March completing as many fruit, flower, and veggie paintings as possible. The grocery store had a great sale last week on red, orange, and yellow peppers so I painted peppers!

Quote for this post ... by Eugene Delacroix 1798 - 1863

"Everybody knows that yellow, orange, and red induce and represent ideas of joy and riches".