watercolor: Amston Lake, CT

 

pencil: By the White House gate

 

acrylic on canvas: Flight to the Mountains

 

acrylic on board: First Church, Congregational - looking from Venture Smith's headstone

 

acrylic on canvas: "Fully Involved"

"Fully Involved was an interesting challenge. Depicting fire, water and at night. Now in private collection of a retired fire chief.

 

watercolor: "Learning the basics"

"Learning the basics" - a youngster begins to learn about watercolor painting. Based on a photograph. Setting is inside East Haddam's historic Town Hall building; the Grange roof in the background through the window. The wood/coal stove is still in the building.

 

acrylic on wood: Little Talbott Island, Florida

A "memory" picture for a collector. The boardwalks in the area were destroyed by hurricanes. though they were the best way for people to get to the beach. I'd never been to the site; relied on a few photographs and notes of details from the collector. Augmented this with researching on the flora, fauna and weather typical of the region. Capturing a sunset's colors on a tropical storm cloudbank over the Atlantic was intriguing. The collector's spouse was surprised I'd never actually seen the locale.  

 

Acrylic on wood panel: "Open or Closed?"

East Haddam Swing Bridge - the inside joke is that when the bridge is "open" it is "closed". Open to boats but Closed to vehicles and foot traffic.  When the bridge is "Closed" it is open to cars and foot traffic but tall boats cannot come thorugh.

acrylic on canvas: "Goose and Maverick"

"Goose and Maverick was done during a visit to friends in Maine. I'd hoped to begin working on an impressive vista horizon elsewhere on their land but it was raining and foggy most of the day. Determined to paint something, we went for a walk, coming across two of their sheep, Goose and Maverick (yup. named after characters in Top Gun) under a shed. Took a couple of photos, came back in the house and began painting. Got this completed in about two hours, while visiting and chatting.

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