It’s almost time for Rye Painters on Location again!
My piece for Rye POL’s Silent Auction: Gold Mountain Air, oil on canvasboard, 11X14. Some of my Best Painting Buds (BPBs) are people I met at Rye Painters on Location: Bruce Bundock and Marilyn Fairman, for example. Another of my other BPBs—Brad Marshall—is someone I recommended to the organizers (as did Lee Haber). There are …
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Better than working in a cube farm?
Darn it, I KNOW I took a photo of my easel in the manure pile, but I can’t find it! So you’re stuck with the rather-more-normal wet canvas. Never good when someone decides to blot it out for you, which has happened, of course. I received an amusing text from a friend this morning that …
Bid early! Bid often!
Painting on a floating dock during the Quick-Draw. My preferred vantage point for boats. (Photo by Howard Gallagher) I have an informal contest with a Maine pal about which of us can be mentioned most often in the media. Until this week, we were tied, but I think I just out-paced him with photos in …
The best fan mail
Three watercolors done by Shirley last October. I can’t wait to see what she does in Maine this October! The greatest compliment to an instructor is to have a student sign up again for another year. While I was in Camden last week, I learned that Shirley, a student from last October’s Irondequoit Inn program, …
And on the Eighth Day, God created a deluge so I would go home
The Dugs in Autumn (Beaver Dam near Speculator,) 11X14, oil on canvasboard, by Little Ol’ Me. Maine loves me, I can tell. The weather dawned fine and fair for the whole week of the Camden Plein Air Festival, any rain containing itself to evening or early morning hours. On Monday I awoke to the steady …
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