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".

Winter Evening

Snow, snow, and more snow ... so this post includes another snow painting. I like to walk by this view in Yarmouth to catch sight of the sunset - when it isn't snowing!

Quote for this post ... by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

"Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening, of a January sunset ... the air had so much life and sweetness, that it was a pain to come within doors".