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Finally, a long-awaited painting completed… no, not of the farm, but of a lovely limestone house in Prospect Heights with the family’s 2 adorable kids out front. It took me quite a while to get the light right on the house, more lit on the right side by the morning light in spring, without it looking glare-y.
I’ll add it to my “archive” on my website next week. Other paintings are getting finished up, also. Stay tuned!
If you’re dreaming about going to the shoreline, enjoy these paintings! I was able to spend a week in Clinton, CT and worked on 4. Here are 3 of them (still working on the 4th):
I got back to work on this commission of a farm in New Jersey (interrupted by a painting trip to Connecticut among other things). I’m making progress on the view of the house and also of the barn and corn crib. Will work on them today.
Finally, I got back to work on the two views from Red Hook I started a long time ago. Lehigh Valley, aka the Waterfront Museum, started with the original sky I saw – all orange-y brown, but it didn’t do anything for the red barge and the great pile of rocks in the foreground. It took some work to get the rocks to look lit up, but not grab all the attention. And, the painting of the cranes… I ended up painting out the leisure boat that was in the foreground. It was grabbing too much attention from the real stars – the blue cranes. Here they are (better views at my website):
