by | | Landscape, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
I did three paintings of sugar maples. All three are here – keep scrolling down to see them. The first, Sugar Maple Hill, (below) is an early transparent watercolor that I painted from memory remembering my days at school in New England. It sold immediately from a Philadelphia Gallery to a Philadelphia Collector. This second Sugar Maple Hill (below) was painted and given to a friend who was always there for me – in good times and in bad – and who loved this transparent watercolor. This third painting I called simply Sugar Maples (below). It, too, I painted from memory, and it also sold the very first time it was displayed here in Pennsylvania. When I compare the three paintings, brushstrokes get looser with each new rendering. Painting Orpheus Revels sets in three days makes one deliver paint to canvas fast and I did Revels for years at about the same time I was painting the latter two Sugar Maples. Hooray for Orpheus! Hooray for loose, fun brushstrokes. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Boats, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
Down at Beach Haven we learned at a very young age to sail sneakboxes and race around Mordecai Island. If a Skipper or Skipperette could sail a tricky, tippy sneakbox, he or she was ready to graduate on to Comets, Lightnings, E-scows, and could definitely handle a Catboat. This transparent watercolor of Catboats Sailing was my first. I was commissioned to do two more “just like it,” but of course each was a little different – all had catboats, blue sky with white clouds and blue water with whitecaps. I wanted the viewer to feel the wind. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Flowers, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
Poppies are my favorite flowers. I can’t stop painting them. I paint them as thank you notes, I paint them as hostess gifts, I paint them in landscapes and paint them into coastal gardens. All my poppies so far have been transparent watercolors which are perfect for capturing the thin luminous petals of the poppies. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Just For Fun, Oil on Belgian Linen, Paintings
Fast brush strokes using Kolinsky watercolor bushes and real oil paints placed quickly on a tiny 5″ x 7″ Belgian linen board resulted in this plein air painting “Beach Day” which is one of my favorites and still in the Collection of the Artist. There may have been one or two sailboats out in the ocean that day, but I threw more in just for fun. I love painting children. They rarely sit still. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Oil on Canvas, Paintings, Seascapes
Howard’s Beach in Cape May was a lovely place to go in September. The ocean had warmed up, the sand had cooled down, and the far less crowded beach still had enough activity going on for artists to paint. Eight of us rented a cottage and swam at this beach almost every day after painting. The rocks are the jetty just below Howard’s Beach – I thought it was fun to call this Howard’s Beach oil painting – Raggedy Ann on the Rocks. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Paintings, Real Places, Transparent Watercolor
Three of us from the French Creek Art Colony went up to paint in Maine, and this is my rendition of the lighthouse on Pemaquid Point not far from Damariscotta where we were staying. Terry was behind me painting almost the same view. Maggie was off to our left, painting rocks. As soon as I finished this transparent watercolor of the lighthouse, I painted Maggie painting. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
