Hurricane Faye

Today is a sloppy day outside. Tropical storm Faye is beating on Florida but we are getting the tail end of her punch. I haven't seen so much rain in a long time so I am staying inside and painting at the easel with the dogs at my feet. This is a small painting 4"x4" oil on canvas. SOLD

Hell Bent

Almost done. If you have looked further in this blog you will see another painting at the same location. That one is called "Sermon on The Bluff" so it seemed interesting to call this one Hell Bent. This is the episcopal churchyard in Bluffton, Sc. looking out over the May River. I often kayak and swim there as I stay in a house about a half mile up-river. 6"x8" (ish) oil on panel.

View From Millie's

This is another Nantucket view but at the west end of the island, in Madaket. It is looking from Madaket Millie's bridge towards Eel Point. I think I snapped a picture one morning as I was delivering kayaks to customers. Madaket Harbor is one of the island's best kept secrets. The waters are tricky with many sandy shoals and the currents can change suddenly, but if you know the waters it can make for terrific boating and fishing. That is why it's mostly only Islanders on the west end waters. 8"x10" oil on canvas. Sold

Nantucket 6 a.m.

This is a painting I did early one morning before I had to go back to rent sail boats and kayaks. Rough life. I was fortunate to live down town on the docks so I would rise early and walk all over town before all the summer people and tourists got up. I would imagine that I was living 40 years back and this was how quiet it was all the time. Nope, only at 6 a.m. in this century. I am looking down Orange Street to Main Street and into Congdon's Pharmacy which still hosts an old fashioned soda fountain with swivel stools, affordable ice cream cones, and frappes. 9"x12" Oil on Canvas. SOLD

The House With the Red Stairs

This is another unfinished painting. If I blog them before I am done it motivates me to finish them. This lovely little house is located in 'Sconset on the east end of Nantucket. It is a nice old summer cottage that I passed by last fall when I was visiting family. With all the building code enforcements you couldn't build 'em like this anymore. Nowadays they have to have heat, enclosed walls, and modern everything. 6"x8" Oil on Birch Panel.

Goodbye To Mudpie

This was originally painted as a happy painting but this particular day turned into a sad one for me so I made the clouds stormy. The May River has alot of moods and this one fit . 16"x20" Oil on Canvas.

Nantucket Moors

This was a fun painting I did for a Nantucket Artists' Association exhibit. It was such a bright day and I love the moors on Nantucket. Just when I think I have biked, hiked, and ridden down every dirt road I find another I have never been on. In about another month from now the moors start smelling so delicious as all the "scrubby" plants start to blossom. There are blueberry, beach plum, bayberry, bearberry, gooseberry, cranberry, elderberry, apple, wild grapes, rose hips, and others I don't know exist.

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Afton, VA

I haven't quite finished this painting. I love the mountains of Virginia so much, if there is such a thing as "last lives" mine was somewhere in those hills. I stopped to paint this on my way up from South Carolina. 16"x20" Oil on Canvas.