Rubber duck portrait

Working indoors as the April rains soak everything  

Rubber Ducky, 10x8 oil on canvas panel. 

The scow

A few years ago I painted The Scow from the shore of Niagara Falls Ontario. It had tipped overnight and was sure to go over the falls soon. It is still there today but is breaking up even more. I am wondering if we are all wrong and it will still be there, in parts, for many more years.

Landmark home on Grand Island

 Last Fall I met with friends in Ferry Village. It was a little breezy and rain threatened but I worked from a covered area across the street to capture this home. When I moved to Grand Island it was sad looking, but as the years passed it has been renovated and restored, now it is a landmark as well as historical. The bunting displayed was a challenge to draw cleanly as the picture is only 9x12 and I was using pastels. Someday I will paint it instead.

Ferry Village Jewel 9x12 pastel c.2021

No longer just pictures, these became decor.

A Rochester 'plant-based family' acquired several of my winter vegetable projects, loose paintings, all oil on gessoed oil paper. This series was made during the winter-raiding the refrigerator for live models.

I wasn't just surprised, I was thrilled to see all these paintings matted and framed so beautifully and expertly displayed.  Each painting is about 11x14 so adding the mats and frames turned them into an amazing addition perfectly arranged on kitchen and hall walls. Love this!

 

Sunlight streaks the Path at Beaver Island

As 'plein air season' winds down there is joy at the colors of the changing season but melancholy at the idea of losing contact with painter friends for a few months. This year the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters held a final event at Beaver Island, including a pot luck lunch and gag prizes for artwork completed in the morning.

I am totally in love with my achievement capturing the nearby path in the low fall sunlight of Autumn. My pastels were singing! 

 

Sunbeam at Beaver Island 9x12 pastel