Historic House Commission

16 x 23 Commission

I just completed this.  The home is in Canton Center, Connecticut, and looks much like in the painting.  The General Store and school house are historic representations with creative sizing and placement. The church behind the house is actually still there.

Lynde Point Lighthouse

Lynde Point Lighthouse

8 x 10

$275 with double mat and frame

This Saybrook, Connecticut lighthouse is the companion lighthouse to the Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse. I took the reference photo from a sailboat last month.

Saybrook Lighthouse

Saybrook Lighthouse  Signed 8 x 10 giclee print: $55

Note cards:  $2.50  Post Card:  $1.00

Saybrook Breakwater Light is here in Connecticut. I took some photos on our sailing trip a couple of weeks ago. Hope you like it.

New England home in Autumn

New England home in Autumn

11 x 15

Commission completed Dec. 20, 2008

I finished painting this Canton, Connecticut home on Friday after many long hours. If you recognize the house, please don't rush out and call the owners because it is a surprise for one of them! The person who commissioned it hasn't even seen it yet. Jeff just taught me how to take a photo of the painting with indoor lighting, and here it is. I thought I was going to have to wait for the snow to stop to shoot outside like I have done in the past. Thanks Jeff!

Sorry for the lack of posts this month. Thanksgiving, lots of no school for the kids and a zillion other things have limited my painting time. Now I'm ready to paint more and the kids have 12 days off of school in a row starting 1:10 on Tuesday! I WILL paint anyway! Now that this painting is done I am going back to the birds. I am almost done with a Yellow Warbler. :)

The Three Bears

Backyard Forest

12 x 16

2006
This was an attempt at a plein air painting of the woods in my back yard. I started outside and then spent weeks in the studio tightening it up. I never really liked it much. It didn't have a center of interest.

I finally realized that what the painting was missing was bears! Several weeks ago, Momma bear and her cubs visited our yard and spent the evening in the neighborhood. It was too cool! I was inspired.

Revised painting:

The Three Bears 2008

12 x 18

$295 with mat and frame

After I added the bears I changed the shapes of some trees and branches, added texture to the bark, and worked on the foliage and the sky. It was challenging to get the bears in over the foliage without having them look green. That is why they are so dark.

On the left: Momma Bear with her fancy ear tags.

On the right: The three cubs, posing on our street. They spent a lot of time in a neighbor's trees but the pictures didn't come out.

Sorry for the blurriness.