This view from the patio allowed me to be social with my family, as we all sat on the patio enjoying one another, and the views. An 8" x 10" plein air canvas with water soluble oils and a #2 round brush.

An overcast morning at the Lovell town beach. The sun came out very shortly afterwards, and I made plans to do a much larger canvas of this same view. That will take some time to finish! This is one of those inch and-a-half thick canvases, water soluble oils and a new #2 round brush.

This cloudy, windy day I stayed closer to the house, you can see the stems from the lily pads in the foreground, and just s few of the White Mountains can be seen on the horizon, behind the trees across Kezar Lake. This is a 6" x 8" plein air canvas, and I used water soluble oils and my new #2 round brush which I am loving.

This view is from the dock of the Bradford's summer lake house, which we have been renting for two summers. It's a beautiful view of the White Mountains. There are trees on the right that I simply did not paint in, as everything had begun to shift well before I had established the elemnets on the canvas. This canvas is quite small, 5" x 7" and has an inch and a half deep sides, which I painted a grey blue. Water soluble oils with my new #2 round brush.

Kezar Lake

Spending the week at Kezar Lake, this is the view of the White Mountains from the town beach in Lovell. It's a small 8"x 10", plein-air canvas; and my favorite water soluble oils. I use a new #2 round brush for all but the sky.

A quick oil sketch from the point, near my house

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl

I am starting a new project, inspired by another artist. I'm posting the progression, so we can have a critique!

Spring Point Lighthouse, South Portland, Maine

Fort Gorges, Casco Bay, Maine

Macworth Island, Maine

Mount Battie, 8/11

Jayne, I'm going to try to be more regular about posting...JOIN ME! 6 x 8 oil on plein air board.

Willard Point

OKay Jayne, this one has been in my upstairs bedroom for too long, finally dusted it off and finished it.

Point Lookout

6 x 8 oil on canvas

A view from SMCC on a beautiful afternoon...

The Point

Chuck and I painted at the point last night, what a pretty night it was!

Bath Bridge

Jayne, will we ever paint together again? Post what you are doing. This painting was part of the "third Friday Art Walk" in Bath.

8" x 8" oil on canvas: Macworth Island

Okay Jayne, it's time to get to work! Chuck and I painted at Macworth yesterday, it was so great. The tide came up so fast, his french easel and feet were under water, persistent Charles...he painted until his feet were wet.

Lemons and Wine

The last of the birds

and finally, sky2 is done. Sky 3 has already been started. I sketched these three at the beach day before yesterday when the sky had a really spring color to it, and the gulls had congregated on a fishing boat. I took picture with my cell phone as they flew off. Jayne, when are you going to organize our blog. Also, I'm sad that we didn't get our sweet model tonight.

Look!

Rache - I wanted to show you the watercolors I had framed at your mother's shop (the wonderful House of Frames on Broadway in South Portland!). She's having that 50% off sale. It was such a good deal I had to frame some of these old watercolors that were just laying around.
PS. I also made some cards and have lots of this paper if you ever want to make some. . .

Spy

Dogsitting for Spy, my sweet muse.

So, I did not quit, after all.

Finally finished this one, it isn't easy being solely responsible for bringing rain during a drought, but as you can see by the clouds in these last two, as always, I have managed.

I can't help it, I'm in Texas.

Dripping Springs

It's my dad's front yard, here in Drippin' Springs. Nobody ever looks at this blog or ever comments on it and I am gonna quit soon.

Rocks at the Point on Willard Beach

Jayne, I hope that e-mail was about posting, and that you have done some painting!

Ink Washes

Ink wash Jayne, are you ready for that? Maybe on Tuesday?

Dock at Kezar

Watercolor, oops you can see my fingers.

Shoreline Rocks at Kezar

This is a watercolor.

Watercolour of Buck Island

12 x 16 with el cheapo crayola paints.

Rocks at Kezar Lake

This is 8 x 8 oil on canvas

Buck Island Oil on Canvas

This is 14 x 18

Chadwick Sidewalk

JAYNE HANLEY I MISS YOU. Please post. Are you mad at me? Are you quitting the blog? Here is the painting I did of The sidewalk in front of Chadwick Street. It is 12 x 16.

Overcast Monday

Studying colors, and their neutrals made this a perfect pleinair day.

Tuesday Night peppers

Here are my peppers, Jayne, are you posting yours? I miss you, and our exchanges. It's time to start up again, k???

Wednesday very quick oil sketches

Jayne this was our first plein air work in class, I wish you could see them all, they are so nice! I can see this will be a fun class for me, and a great learning experience.

Wednesday's homework

Okay Jayne, the assignment was, black and white, then color. I took it one step further and said, some detail, less detail. It was tough to do this with different light each time, I should've sat still! Your turn!