Category: Paintings
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View from Gardens of Augustus, Capri , Italy
This post will describe the development of a new oil painting. The island of Capri, Italy is a beautiful jewel in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a very popular tourist destination. We visited it in 2018 and this painting was completed from several photographs I took during our travels. I’ll post the finished painting first…
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Afternoon at the Portofino Reflecting Pool – Struggling with an Image
Progress on a painting can be interrupted due to many circumstances. This painting is a perfect example of a struggle to capture what was in my mind versus the photographs I had taken. Overall it took 18 months to execute! Thats due to a number of factors; including my interest in the image, a struggle…
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The Sound of Cicadas (Poetry and Painting)
Few people ever think about the sounds that existed in the background when a painting is made or what the artist heard when the inspiration occurred. The sound in the background can shape and inspire the painting. This painting “Fallen Columns, Temple of Zeus” is about the sound the artist hears while painting the scene…
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Winter Sunrise On the Porter River
This oil painting was created from a photograph I took in January 2022. It was a cold January day and I was in the right place at the right time to capture an awesome sunrise on the Porter River in Danvers, Massachusetts. The painting doesn’t do the photograph justice never the less I tried to…
Oil Paintings, Plein Air, Prints, Hand Drawn Tessellations 