If time permits today, I will be cutting some large panels into workable paintable sizes. These, I will prime and prepare for painting. I love the look of a blank white surface that I can mess around with. What comes forth of the  painting process is always exciting.

Today I'm going to try and carve out some time to get to work on something from my sketchbook, on my larger canvasses. Small is nice, but I like to feel the paint move under my brush, and that only happens with movement over a larger surface. 

The Blue Green Sea

18x24

acrylic on stretched canvas

One of my most recent paintings. Inspired by salt water, slight warm breezes, and sand between my toes.

Painting has been sold

I can't wait to get back in my studio. The marketing aspect of being a professional artist has its way of chewing up time. I feel like I need to paint, and paint now.

THE STAFF OF LIFE

8x10

acrylic on panel

Sometimes images come to mind when sitting in a coffee shop, or just while listening to music. 

Not all paintings are done with the classical subject planned and assembled like a bowl of fruit. Artists, I think, should try to strive for the spark, and strike when it is hot. We all fall into the, .. ho, hum, what should I paint next? But, while that is happening, it may be a perfect time to let your mind feel its way through the layers of life, and just paint what seems to be a moment of unplanned creation. 

  This painting is one example of that. I didn't see it for real. I wasn't looking at a photo of it. I did not set my easel up next to the scene, ... but I did have a culmination of feelings and experiences that led me to paint this. I bake my own bread. I visualize the warmth of the sun growing the wheat. The staff of life, out there in the fields, waiting to be harvested and milled into flour. And, the smell of the end result when the hot bread emerges from the oven. What an aroma! From the wheat fields to the table. What a miracle of sequences.  From a stalk of wheat to a loaf of bread to sustain life. Go figure huh?

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This painting is available for purchase

Cabbage Cove

16x20

acrylic on stretched canvas

If you have ever been to Maine, you might have looked for the mythical Cabot Cove that was the residence of the mystery writer, Jessica Fletcher on the television series, Murder She Wrote. I didn't find it, but I did come across this place which, not knowing the name... I dubbed it "Cabbage Cove" in honor of the real imagined place.

This painting is available

On the Wharf

16x20

acrylic on canvas

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some info:

The place where Richard Dreyfus as "Hooper" met Chief Brody, in the film "JAWS"

 Place: Martha's Vineyard

Edgartown, Ma. Off the southern shores of Cape Cod

This painting is available