I don’t paint that much in acrylic these days but I was playing around the other day with small canvases and some acrylic. I was too impatient to use oil with longer drying time. I’m trying to get a few more of these done before an upcoming open studio. These little ornament gems are on 4×4 wrapped canvas to sit on a shelf or mantle. ( or could be wired for hanging in a small spot) . Available. US only. Email if of interest. Stay tuned for more (hopefully)
After a painting session a friend and I hung around Cape Porpoise,ME. A lobsterman was delivering a truck load of lobster traps on the pier. The afternoon sun produced these fabulous shadow patterns.
12×16 oil/panel Available 
Next to a local seafood restaurant on the Piscataqua River in Kittery ME across from Portsmouth there is a working lobster dock . This was painted PleinAir with a local group this past summer.
Lobster dock 12×12 oil/panel Available 
This is a third painting in my cocktail condiment series! Cheery cherries! Makes me want a cocktail. Like the olives and citrus slices , this was done in acrylic on board 24″x36″.
All three are now available as a blank note card. $3.00 each. Contact me if interested in cards or this available painting.
This was the inspiration! Juicy, deliciousness!!
Lillies is a watercolor I did using color saturation technique. Nice vivid color. It is framed in my favorite “go to” wood gold tone frame. Sorry about the flashback from the photo…..maybe one day I will remember to photo my work before it goes under glass.
watercolor matted /framed $180
This is a working title for this latest painting done in acrylic. Not sure the title is going to stick but it’s a good start. This is another Portsmouth store front. It is actually a restaurant named Poco’s Bow Street Cantina in a beautiful old brick building. Between the old brick, the pediments, and the hanging starlights in the window I was intrigued.
Acrlyic on 8×10 panel $150 (unframed)
I decided to make another painting a la Olive Progression and wanted to do something fun that wasn’t exactly the same repeated image. I chose to go with slices of citrus fruits – lime, lemon, and orange – for a colorful palette with a little more detail.
Step 1- Base coat
Step 2 – Placement design. Cutouts of the slices help give me an idea of where to place each colored fruit.
Step 3 – Let the painting begin! Base coat colors for the slices.
Step 4 – Starting in on the texture detail.
Step 5 – Adding more detail.
Step 6 – Looking more like a lime…
Step 7 – Finished lime!
All done! Makes me want a cocktail!
This is a commissioned piece for a bar in Hampton. These three pictures show the progression of painting olives. The undercoated olives are in yellow. I then base coated the olives in various shades of green. Then the final painting of the juicy olives. What can I say, “olive painting”!
Under coat (first step) in yellow.
Base coat in green.
Finished olives!
Lilacs
sold watercolor
I painted Grandma’s Favorite Teacup from my mom’s teacup collection and now my darling daughter has this watercolor hanging in her own apartment. My mom collected teacups, I collect dust!
Not for sale watercolor
11 days of finding myself and also, the closest bathroom.
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