#180 Falling Springs

oil, 6x6 in, $100
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Tiny Texters

Webkinz (Texting Wannabes)

and doing a good job of it. These two 8-year-olds walked the snowy lake loop while practicing with their new Webkinz devices.
The multitasking tweens are now teens, driving and better not be texting! Do you think the practice helped their college application chances?

8x10 oil on canvas
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#13 on Friday, October 4 of the 30 in 30 challenge: Marshy River to the Sea

Marshy River to the Sea

8 x 10" oil  $350.00

Painted this on a warm, overcast day. What a pleasant place to pass the afternoon. Awaiting a kayak paddling downstream, one appeared JUST as I was packed up and ready to leave. You can fill in the detail here - differently every time you look upon it.

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More reading: I've declared October "Portrait Month" at my studio in Tiverton Four Corners. If you're in the area and the idea appeals, just stop in to set up an appointment for a sitting when I will photograph you many times and begin to lay out the portrait with value guides and color patches. I'm promising such small works by holiday time. You may send a photo, but it must be several and from different angles in natural light (no flash). Only soft casual clothes in soft colors. The price for the 9 x 12 portrait will be $200.00 - a huge bargain! Pets and children are also welcome subjects, but the price may increase.

Black Port On Entry

Here's a little painting of a common New England coastal item which one day just might save your life!

Black Port On Entry, oil on linen, 6" x 6", $100. plus $10. to ship

BLACK PORT ON ENTRY? What the heck does that mean? a ticket? a fine old fortified wine? a receipt for a show fee? Around these New England waters or any US coastal areas, a common sight is a rusting green can called a buoy. It appears to be floating, but actually it's chained to exceedingly heavy weights. It must never move or drift. Sometimes it's called "black" to distinguish from the red ones with pointy shapes called 'nuns'. And from a distance, 'cans' usually look black. If you don't know better, you might just ignore them. Until you run aground on the rocks or seem totally lost in fog! Grab those binoculars! Try desperately to decipher that number while you are bobbing up and down one way and the can is bobbing up and down another! Does the number match the one on your chart, your road map for the sea lanes? Cans have odd numbers, nuns even. They are anchored in line, according to their numerical order, but seldom is the line straight. The line can curve or go around a sharp bend. You have to follow the numerical order exactly - counting by two's in odd numbers! Skip one or take a short cut and land right onto a submerged rock. Following  the course exactly leads you to your harbor by way of this channel. "Black port on entry!" is a rule of the road at sea. It means: entering a harbor or channel you keep those cans to port or on your left, looking forward. 

This little painting is a foggy tribute to one of those cans, and to the guys who maintain them. All boaters come to know and appreciate the enormous measures of safety the US Coast Guard goes to on behalf of our safety, shown by this tiny little floating green can.

Did you like this nautical lesson? You could have the remembrance of a foggy adventure right on your own shelf! Buying this will earn you 50% off on RED RIGHT RETURNING!

Surf's Up! oil painting, 5" x 10", $150.

Maple Tree, Early Leaves, 8 x 10" oil study on birch panel, $200

Watching the rapid arrival of spring makes me want to paint those fresh little leaves, time to get out and paint!

SOLD

Girl Talk, 6" x 6" oil painting

Girl Talk, oil on linen, 6" x 6"

$100, plus $10.  SOLD!