Saturday, August 31, 2013

Monhegan: Jamie Wyeth's Kent House

Jamie Wyeth's Kent House
seen from the water aboard the Elizabeth Ann at
Monhegan Island, Maine on August 20, 2013,
sketched on September 1, 2013
9" x 6" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping 

Update January 21, 2015

Why did I buy this at the MFA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston?

Yes, it was on sale with the Jamie Wyeth exhibition over. Yes, it would fit in fine with my grocery bags that I keep in the car. But . . .

 
. . . it was the familiarity of the art. I knew this view, though it didn't have the dormer that was later added, as seen in my August 2013 painting. Yes, I'd seen, painted, and posted this view before I ever saw Jamie's painting. I'd posted it here in 2013. It's the view from the boat when I departed Monhegan and the captain took the long way around the island by the Kent House.

Early in his career Jamie Wyeth purchased the Kent House on Monhegan Island, Maine with money he earned from his painting sales. The two exchanged letters in 1970, Jamie first buying one of Kent paintings and then Kent House.

"About the situation of the house," Kent wrote, "you will be interested to know that when I built it so very close to the sea, I was warned by old Monheganers that it would never stand up against stormy weather. But since there was grass growing in the scanty soil on that site, I was certain the sea would never reach it. But for a year or two after I built the house, I had nightmares over its being washed away and of myself swimming about in the wreckage."

Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth never met. Kent died in 1971, the year that Jamie painted The Kent House.

 

Monhegan: The Workshop Critique

The Workshop Critique
with Todd Bonita and students in front of the Island Inn
on Monhegan Island, Maine on August 20, 2013,
sketched on August 31, 2013
Todd Bonita's web site HERE.
Todd Bonita's art blogs HERE and HERE.
Todd's studio at the Button Factory HERE.
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed
$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Monhegan: Buoy Buoyed by the Monhegan Ferry

Buoy Buoyed by the Monhegan Ferry
in Port Clyde, Maine on August 18, 2013, sketched on August 29, 2013

Why is this full color in the top half and then black and white in the reflection below?

It was painted for The Daily Painters Challenge, The Notan Challenge. Notan is a Japanese word, harmony of dark & light. It is the simplification of pattern and design to it's black and white basics, a fundamental arrangement of shapes. The challenge is to create a notan drawing using just black and white and then use it as the painting guide. See it and other submissions on the Daily Painters Challenge page HERE.
7"x 5" unframed, sold framed
$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
 

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Monhegan: Yellows Flowering High on a Seaside Cliff

Yellows Flowering
High
on a Seaside Cliff
Seashore Goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens) and
Yellow Scale Maritime Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria parietina) on Monhegan Island, Maine on August 20, 2013,
sketched on August 28, 2013


6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Monhegan: Monhegan Plein Air

Monhegan Plein Air
painter Caleb Stone with friends on Monhegan Island, Maine
on August 18, 2013, sketched on August 28, 2013
Caleb Stone's art web site HERE.
Summer Afternoon Monhegan Island (watercolor) HERE
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed
$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
 

Monday, August 26, 2013

Monhegan: Flowers View


Flowers View
behind the Monhegan Schoolhouse on
Monhegan Island, Maine on August 19, 2013,
sketched on August 26, 2013
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Monhegan: View from My Room

View from My Room
at the Monhegan House looking back towards Port Clyde
on Monhegan Island, Maine on August 19, 2013,
sketched on August 25, 2013

6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
I highly recommend the Monhegan House, web site HERE
 

Monhegan: Seaside Layers

Seaside Layers
seen from aboard the Elizabeth Ann ferry along the east shore
of Monhegan Island, Maine on August 20, 2013,
sketched on August 24, 2013

7"x 5" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Monhegan: Plein Air between the Dock and the Island Inn

Plein Air between the Dock and the Island Inn
on Monhegan Island among Todd Bonita's oils workshop on
August 20, 2013, sketched on August 22, 2013

7"x 5" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Todd Bonita's web site is HERE, a great guy.

Monhegan: Cliff Walking

Cliff Walking
an American Herring Gull (Larus argentatus smithsonianus) atop Whitehead Cliff,
Monhegan Island, Maine on August 20, 2013, sketched on August 21, 2013


7"x 5" unframed, NFS

Monhegan: Whitehead Cliff

Whitehead Cliff
on the east coastline of Monhegan Island, Maine on
August 19, 2013, sketched on August 20, 2013
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Monhegan: Two Monhegan Gulls Conversing

Two Monhegan Gulls Conversing
in the calm water off Pebble Beach, Monhegan Island, Maine
on August 18, 2013, sketched on August 19, 2013
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

Gifted

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Shoot and Leaves in Goldenrod

Shoot and Leaves in Goldenrod
in a back field behind my home on August 12, 2013,
sketched on August 17, 2013
6"x 4" unframed, sold framed
$100 plus $5 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Holding On



Holding On
A mother and daughter walking on Laudholm Beach, Wells Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on August 2, 2013

6"x 4" unframed, sold framed
$100 plus $5 sales tax plus $10 shipping

The Grand Boys




Surf Jumpers

Grandson Finn McMillan and Grandson Teague McMillan
at Laudholm Beach, Wells, Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on July 28, 2013

6"x 4" NFS




Teague Jumping Waves

At Laudholm Beach, Wells Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on July 29, 2013

6"x 4" NFS

Grandson Teague Skipping Stones

At Laudholm Beach, Wells Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on August 12, 2013

6"x 4" NFS



Two Naturalists on a Ponds Walk

Grandson Teague McMillan (left), the photographer holding
a cattail, and Grandson Finn McMillan (right), holding his
sketch book for drawing nature, both wearing their
new Boston Strong Red Sox caps and new
superhero lighting bolt T-shirts on
July 26, 2013, sketched
on July 27, 2013

6"x 4" NFS


Grandson Finn Sketching
by the First Pond

On the ponds walk on July 26, 2013,
sketched on July 31, 2013

6"x 4" NFS





Grand Boys Rocking
on Horse Riding Rock

Grandson Teague (left) and Grandson Finn (right) at the
overlook on the ponds walk on Fort Ridge in
Shapleigh, Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on July 29, 2013

6"x 4" NFS

My Son,
the Apple in My Eye,
Heading Home
on the Laudholm Farm Beach Trail, Wells, Maine on July 27, 2013,
sketched on August 13, 2013
6"x 4" NFS

A Baker's Dozen...

A Baker's Dozen Outside
the Portland Museum of Art
Bustling outside the entrance with artist Susan Taynor's display
on July 27, 2013 during the First Friday Art Walk, sketched on August 2, 2013


6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5 sales tax plus $10 shipping



Night Walker on the Dock


Night Walker on the Dock
A Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) on the Casco Bay Ferry Docks at night in Portland, Maine on August 2, 2013,
sketched on August 4, 2013


6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

$100 plus $5 sales tax plus $10 shipping
A Goldfinch on my Deck's Rail
outside my living room in Shapleigh, Maine on August 5, 2013,
sketched on August 9, 2013, 6"x 4" unframed, sold framed

NFS



The Raven



The Raven

This was a painted from a photo challenge on Daily Paint Works (www.dailypaintworks.com). The challenge was to paint this black Raven by mixing your own blacks, in effect using no true black but a mix on color. "The important thing is to have interesting values, reflective colors and some blacks to describe it." The raven reference photo was from Bryce Canyon, Utah in a photo by painter C. J. Roughton.



The Challenge with the original photo and art by various artists is HERE.



7" x 5" unframed, 8.5" x 6.5" framed

$100 plus $5 sales tax plus $10 shipping