Category: Original Oil Painting
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Night Visitors
This oil painting is inspired by a local farm field on a clear summer night. I took artistic license and removed the moon from the night sky, and a farm building from the foreground. I also significantly enhanced the light halos around the stars to provide a more dramatic focal point. There were other stars…
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Fish Shack, Motif No. 1, Rockport, Massachusetts
This little scene is the iconic Motif No. 1 on Bradley Wharf in Rockport. It really needs no introduction. Its been painted by thousands of artists and holds the distinction of being the most photographed building in the world (so I am told). We visited Rockport in May after my daughter graduated from Tufts. I…
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Bearskin Neck, Rockport
It’s not Motif No. 1 but its another view across the Harbor and right beside the pier with that iconic fish shack! This painting depicts the harbor at low tide and is a great place to paint. I decided I didnt want to include Motif No. 1 in this view. I’ll post a couple of…
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Mount Stromboli Eruption
In July 2024 we saw both Mt Stomboli and Mt Etna erupting while we were visiting Italy. I completed two paintings from this very memorable experience. Stromboli has some spectacular events and while the residents of the island are all to familiar with the potential for destruction we were just amazed at how close people…
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Mount Etna, View of Taormina, Sicily
We took the bus ride to the Town of Taormina to see a Roman Ampitheater and numerous other historical building sites. The town was preparing for a film festival when we arrived. A view of a portion of the town with Mt Etna in the distance was just down a short trail. It was a…
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Up On the Roof, Venice
In the summer of 2024 we stayed in Venice two days before we set out on a cruise ship for a week to several destinations in the Adriatic and Mediterranean. This was the view out our hotel window. I decided to paint it because of the color contrast of the yellows, greens, reds and the…
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Early Morning Walk Along A Canal, Venice
Sunlight refecting off the warm colors of the buildings along the canal is what initially drew me want to paint this scene. I used a reference photograph that I took last summer but really juiced up the color. See the reference photo below. I made several early morning walks and made sketches and even had…
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Italian Coast, Near Amalfi
MC Escher made a lithograph of Atrani in 1931. My painting is a view from a lower angle than his print and is not an accurate representation of the town.
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Apple Orchard
Pastoral scene of an apple orchard and farm in northwestern Massachusetts. I tried to capture the light and feeling of being on a farm in the fall. The apples had fallen and the sheep were resting amoung the old apples trees. It reminds me of when I would visit my grandparents farm in the summertime…
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Return to Capri, Italy
During our summer vacation we were able to visit Capri for the second time. We took a tour from our ship to the island. A bus took us to Ana Capri and after wandering around we returned to Capri on the funicular. This painting came from a photo I took on the way down on…
Oil Paintings, Plein Air, Prints, Hand Drawn Tessellations 