Summer House

Summer House
8" by 8'
Oil with a palette knife on cradled panel
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It's not our summer home, but some lucky people are enjoying this house in Wellfleet on Cape Cod right now. I took some liberties here, exaggerating the angles and wanting to keep the style loose to give some personality to this cute little yellow house. Yeah summer!

Blue Hydrangea Heaven

Blue Hydrangea Heaven
8" by 8"
Oil with a palette knife on cradled board
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We were staying at a great house on Cape Cod last week that had the most beautiful hydrangea garden in the front yard. All the shades of blues and purples were just calling to be captured with my palette knife.
There was a very daring chipmunk that kept checking us out. I think he was living somewhere in the hydrangea bush. He wouldn't sit still for me, but I decided to add him into the bottom right of the painting anyway.

Here are a few more chunky delicious close ups.

After I completed the painting above, I did these three quick little paintings that I figure I can turn into greeting cards once they dry. These are each about 3" square more or less.

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Drawing on the beach

It took all week to finally be able to do some pencil sketching on the beach. This is a drawing I did on the very last day at the beach. This captures our friends in their daily beach position-relaxed, reclined, and reading. Ahhh, summertime in New England. There is nothing better.

Great esCape

Cape Escape

Oil with a palette knife on artist board

8" x 8"

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I finally took a break from the sun and surf to do some plein air painting while on vacation. What wonderful weather we have had this week so far. I included some more photos to give you a sense of our quintessential cape surroundings.The place we rented is right near the path to the beach. People leave their wagons and other things while they carry their beach gear down the stairs. Our place is to my left.
While I was inside taking a lunch break, some onlookers stopped to take a peak at my progress.
I hope to get some more painting time in. Today is a little rainy but we're going to try to get 9 holes of golf in later this afternoon. I do not want this week to be over!!

New Commission

I just finished a painting that Denise commissioned me to do for her sister's upcoming birthday on April 1. She told me that she had seen some paintings I have displaying at Gallery 9 that are based on old family photos and she thought it would make a nice gift for her sister who "has everything". She brought me several fun family photos to choose from and we finally selected this one. It is the cutest thing, right? Don't we all have photos like this? That's her sister Beth on the far left, brother Billy in the middle, and Denise on the right.
I think it's fun to see paintings in progress so I took this photo at an intermediate stage. I started in on the faces first, which is usually the hardest part.

Then, the background of this photo was really fun with all of the foliage and the hydrangeas. Beth lives in Miami so I hope this painting will be a nice reminder of their family days spent on Cape Cod. Happy Birthday Beth!
Check out my other paintings done from old photos in the Family Album series.