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  • Villa Paradiso

    Villa Paradiso

    Oil on canvas, 30 x 37 inches

    I feel I am a realistic painter, in that I want to paint things that are real.  Things seen and felt.  But to be a realist does not mean to me that every detail has to be rendered in a traditional realistic “one scene” per frame way.  Different things in a painting and a painting’s narrative need to be told in different ways.

    Here I painted the nude with light spilling on her from her window…but I gave the light physicality with the paint and though I have the blinds from the window I hung them without the wall because the summer feeling of the moment is that your are in the actual sky with the sun dancing down on your skin.

  • Rock on the River, 2020

    Rock on the River, 2020

  • First Tenants

    We decided the window openings needed to be a tad larger in the hopes purple martins would finally try the bird house as a nesting place.   Always a jump-in-and-just-do- it kind of man, Bev regretfully decided, at 91, the restoration was too much.  So over 2018 I carefully rebuilt the purple martin apartment house for Bev.   In early fall of 2018 Bev and I went down to the coast to install the house with its new wood, new shingles, restored cupola and spanking new white paint.

    It makes me very happy that in the spring of 2019 Bev’s bird apartment, so long vacant, had its first nesting pair of purple martins—the larger window openings had done the trick.  I think this made my friend very happy.

  • Two Sisters

    Two Sisters

  • Channel Marker and Crows

    Channel Marker and Crows

    Channel Marker and Crows

    watercolor, 21 x 29 in, 2019

    This is a full sheet watercolor from 2019, painted at one of my favorite places on earth, Popham Beach looking across the Kennebec.

  • Dance backdrop for mural

    Dance backdrop for mural

    How can you represent our fine Hallowell without showing music, dance and the arts? I have just begun the arts section and this is part of the larger than life figures that will form the backdrop for the musicians and dancers.

    NOTE: 11/14/21, this section of the Hallowell mural is now completely repainted. So goes art.

  • Maggie’s Birch

    Maggie’s Birch

    acrylic on canvas, 3 x 3 feet, mini mural adhered to wall.

  • Call Me Ishmael

    Call Me Ishmael

    Call Me Ishmael
    36 x 26 inches, acrylic, 2020

  • Mural updates

    Mural updates

    Started adding in a few people from our military representing those from our town who served.

  • Hallowell Mural Website

    Hallowell Mural Website

    There is a new website for the Hallowell Mural Project, the 700 square foot mural for downtown Hallowell, Maine. You can see it here: https://hallowellmural.org/

    A few small details of the work in progress.

  • refining mural details

    refining mural details

    The last couple of weeks for the Hallowell Mural I’ve been refining some of the details of parts that had been blocked in.

  • Violinist, watercolor mural study

    Violinist, watercolor mural study

  • Martha Ballard, updates

    Martha Ballard, updates

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    Here is the Martha Ballard scene from the mural as of November 16. I have been developing the forms and colors.

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  • Pink Skirt

    Pink Skirt

  • Winter Sea Patrol

    Winter Sea Patrol

  • More Hallowell Mural pics

    More Hallowell Mural pics

    Here are some more progress photos of other parts of the mural.

    This older gentleman is Judge Richard Rice. In the 1850’s he and some other ingenious folks built the first steam powered car in Maine–built right here in Hallowell. Here I show Judge Rice on his triumphant trip across town on the first car.

    Also, an update of one of the seamen in the mural and a mother and daughter tending the fields.

  • Martha Ballard, Hallowell Mural

    Martha Ballard, Hallowell Mural

    Martha Ballard was a midwife and caregiver for most of the residents of Hallowell in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She delivered close to 1000 babies, in a region with a population of only several thousand. She was supremely important to the origins of our town.

    She kept a diary of her doctoring. She became well known today when her diary was discovered and published.

    A study and progress pictures of Martha Ballard in the Hallowell Mural.

  • Rock on the River 2019

    Rock on the River 2019

    poster design for Hallowell’s 2019 Rock on the River Tuesday night concerts.

  • Hallowell Woodstock 2019

    Hallowell Woodstock 2019

    A poster and t-shirt design for Hallowell’s annual Woodstock music festival.

  • Another day at the wall

    Another day at the wall

    Spent the day refining some of the figures and roughing in a few more. This is Dr. Benjamin Vaughan, a notable patriot, a well read man with a library only rivaled by that of Harvard of the time. Here he is penning a letter to President Thomas Jefferson, one of the many important people with whom he corresponded for many decades.

    Today, Thursday is another open studio afternoon, 2-4 so stop by to see the mural progress.