Old Cedar

I think I must be in my blue-green period. 5x7

Early Morning Patcong Creek

9x12

House with Red Shutters

Bridge View sans Bridge

5x7

E.B.F. Meadows

EBF meaning Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. A beautiful preservation. Alternate title: Here There be Greenheads!...they were fierce! 8x10

Summer Garden

5x7

Flood Tide Fishing

5x7

Living on the Edge

5x7

Scull's Bay Sunrise 1.5

SOLD

5x7

Queen Ann's Lace

I went out to do a painting of the wetlands, but it was these flowers in the parking lot that really caught my eye. 5x7

The Road Back

5x7

The Chatter Box

Another Wednesday evening plein air painting. The Chatterbox was there when my mother was teenager, so it is indeed "Old" Ocean City. I met one of my blog followers while painting...nice to meet you Stacy, glad you stopped by!! I'll be back to paint next week. 9x12

From the Vault: Mussel Drawing 1979

Too rainy today to get a picture of yesterday's painting. This drawing was done with a flair pen when I lived in Nags Head, NC after graduating high school. I loved using flairs when I was a kid...unfortunately, they are far from permanent. I was able to restore this image with the help of a scanner and photoshop. approx 4x6

Book, Glasses and Flower

SOLD
8x10

Joe's Boat in Drydock

SOLD
8x10

Blue Hydrangeas

SOLD

Looks like the only floral work I'll be doing for a while is with a paint brush since I was laid off from my day job last week! 8x10

7th and Asbury

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The Glass Frog Studio and Ocean City are sponsoring a plein air event every Wednesday night. We ( the artists ) go there and are assigned a spot to paint from on the busy evening street. It was great fun and I got to enjoy good music while I painted. Can't wait until next week! 9x12

Big Tug

Friends let me use their deck this morning where I painted this Tug Boat...after twenty minutes he left....along with the barge as well. 8x10

Trumpet

I won two first place awards this weekend. One for my tent at the Cape May Promenade Art Show...the second from the Ocean City Art League show " Everything Ocean City" ( the painting: Flander's Watch ). That painting also took a blue ribbon back in March. If I include Stewarts Root Beer from the Hammonton Paint-Out this past June, that makes four blue ribbons so far this year. So yes...I'm tooting my own horn by painting a trumpet flower...5x7

Wednesday Morning, Ventnor

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5x7

Grassy Sound/Closure

I'm not thrilled with the word "closure" but in this case it fits best. Every now and then a painting takes me hostage and Grassy Sound has certainly done so. I've repainted the entire thing at one point or another, I haven't let myself start any new large pieces until this one was done. Today I had the time to spend several uninterupted hours mending the areas I found irritating. It may never be one of my favorites, but I guess I liked it enough to keep going.

Fallen Squirrel

Some find it macabre that I paint dead animals. As long as they are in pristine condition I find small animals make wonderful subjects. I grew up in a family of hunters ( including my mother ). Personally I hate killing things, but I think my home enviroment may be part of the reason I'm drawn to paint these creatures. 8x10

Exit Stage Left

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A second version of the horseshoe crab. I had to go way back to find the first from two years ago. 8x10

Scull's Bay Sunrise #8

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It felt good to get back to one of my favorite painting spots. 9x12
You can view the first seven from last year here.

Budding Magnolia

5x7

Whelk

SOLD

5x7

Happy Father's Day

My Father's card this year is a copy from a painting I did last year ( and sold) of the decoys my Dad keeps in the rafters of his garage. 5x7 charcoal and blue conte'

By the Dawns' Early Light

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Just about finished. I wish the photo could capture more of the true luminosity of this piece. As it is I had to lighten the background in order to get truer colors of the bridge and cranes. It reminds me of Inness ( I should be so good!)

Half a Cigarette

My friend Diana from Art of Flowers Stands in the garage doorway and smokes only half a cigarette when she takes a break. 5x7

Update

Just a reminder that I'm participating in two group shows. The Signature Artist Exhibit at the Noyes Museum and "Pleasure Avenue" invitational at the Ocean City Art Center. Both opening receptions will be held Friday evening, June 12th. I will be in attendance at the Noyes. Also, the Noyes Museum will now be featuring a selection of my 5x7 landscapes in their gift shop!
The photo is of my Koi and goldfish from last summer, unfortunatly this year more then half of the goldfish are gone,...dinner for the Heron!

Absecon Victorian

5x7

The Last Peonie

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I brought it in last night, figuring it wouldn't survive the rain. It smells wonderful. 12x12

...Looking Over...

5x7

Kitchen Sill

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I've always liked having a flower on my kitchen window sill to look at while doing the dishes. That's why you may have noticed this set up before! 8x10

Spring at Birch Grove Park

I was going to title this Green on Green on Green. A beautiful afternoon. When I sat down to paint this scene there were three canadian geese sleeping on that ridge of ground...they promptly moved when I started. I figured the view was nice enough without them. One came over and sat very close to me ( then went to sleep ) while I painted...the perfect painting companion! 8x10

Marshcreek

I realized after I was finished with this 5x7 that a great number of my wetland pics have a clump of grass in the lower left. I'm going to try and avoid that with my next composition. Sorry for all the reflections, they were caused by sunlight,,what a glorious thing it is!

St. Pete's

I keep putting my painting gear in my car and then taking it out...another weekend of heavy fog, clouds and rain. This is from a photo. I wanted to get a pic of St Peter's Roman Catholic Church with the flowering trees blooming( had to settle for a cloudy day of course ) I heard it's closing and I'm afraid the building may dissapear....another Pleasantville landmark. 9x12

Finished Work

I wrapped these two up the week ( of rain ) before last.

Faunce Landing, Overcast

5x7

Tony's Baltimore Grill

An old Atlantic City Landmark. 9x12

Quick Sketch of a Slow Dog

or maybe a new sketch of an old dog. Archie is slow as old bassets tend to be, but of course he moved only moments after I started this little 5x7.

Pleasure Avenue

Started this 11x14 panel today. I've been working additional hours at the day job so that I can pay for the workshops I'll be taking this coming September. I will be studying with Kevin Macpherson, Quang Ho and Joseph Mcgurl among others during the Weekend with the Master's ...sponsored by American Artist Magazine. I can't wait. I decided last fall when I knew I was going to continue with plein air and landscape painting that I needed to get some hands on training. This event is about twice what I was planning to pay, but I think it will probably be worth it.<

Arena Buick

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this photo has some serious linear distortion that really isn't evident in the actual painting. I would get a better pic, but it sold yesterday at the Hammonton Plein Air Paint Out. The same family has owned the building since the 1920s. It was the first thing I knew I wanted to paint whebn I heard about the event. Oh and the Root Beer painting took the first place award as well...it was a good day!

Stewart's Root Beer

12x16

Plum

This little plum tree in my side yard has pretty foliage, but it's in an akward spot that offers no proper vantage point for a painting...so I settled on one small segment. 5x7

Cape May Victorian

Dreary weather for days...did this one Monday, today was the first clear day to get a photo in natural light. I'll be doing the Hammonton Paint-Out this Saturday, reception and awards will be that evening at the Hammonton branch of the Noyes Museum.

Congress Hall, Cape May

9x12

Ruth's House

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Right behind this house is Adam's Perfect Funeral Home. My friend Ruth occasionaly takes home some of the left over flowers Mr. Perfect leaves out by his trash. For many years I was the main florist for Adam's Perfect, so when I later met Ruth I found it funny that many of her scavanged fresh cuts were probably mine to begin with...funny world. 8x10

Tree at Belhaven School

5x7