Rexhame Gull

Drew subject on canvas with wolfe carbon pencil,  used yellow ochre wash to seal drawing.

Rexhame Gull

11 x 14

Acrylics on board

Tea Time

Tea Time

9 x 12

Acrylics on Board

I sketched this onto a gessoed masonite board with vine charcoal. After it was 'fixed' with fixative, I covered the board with a wash of yellow ochre. When that was dry, I went over the outline with a red inktense block which I misted with water to let it run. I then started painting with acrylics using a mixture of Golden Flow White Zinc and Golden Glazing Fluid instead of water to thin the paint. Since acrylics dry darker than the initial color the addition of the zinc white lightens the color when dry. I find that it is easier to darken a color with a wash if it dries too light.

Empty

Empty

Acrylics

Daily painting completed 8/7/2017

Harbor Master Shack - Pine Point

Harbor master shack - Pine Point

9 x 12

Acrylics

Working Boat

Working Boat

8 1/4 x 12

Acrylics

Since acrylics dry darker than when first applied, I added a mixture of zinc white and acrylic flow medium to the colors in this painting. It helped the paint to flow smoother and the paint dried lighter than  normal. I will next try mixing the colors with fluid zinc white to see if there is any change in tone or flow.

Camp Ellis Afternoon

Camp Ellis Afternoon

9 x 12

Acrylics

Abstract for 2017 contest

Untitled

11 x 14

Acrylics on board

Marsh Sunrise

Marsh Sunrise

9 x 12

Oil Pastels

Marsh Sunrise II
6 x 9
Watercolor

Marsh Sunrise III
6 x 9
Gouache

Delgado at Canyon Road

Delgado at Canyon Road

9 x 12

Oil Pastels

Evening Walk

Evening Walk

9 x 12

Acrylics on Board

Evening Walk II
9 x 12
Oil Pastels

Red Barn

Red Barn

5 1/2 x 7 1/2

Watercolor

Red Barn II

5 1/2 x 7 1/2

Watercolor

Updated on 6/10/17

Camden Fall colorized photo

Camden Fall I

Water colored photo

I removed the color from a photo I took of Camden, Maine using Photoshop Elements. The photo was then printed on watercolor paper. The initial lay in was done with watercolor, details in foreground was enhanced with gouache. This is the result of day one.

Camden Fall

11 x 6 1/2

Mixed Media

Clam Digger II

Clam Digger II

6 1/2 x 8

Watercolor

An hour and a half painting session, done on the porch. Not quite Plein Air as I used a photo as reference but the lighting was natural. I used white gouache for some highlights.

Clam Digger

The Clam Digger

13 3/4 x 10 3/4

Acrylics on Board

Hand Tool Series

Magnetic Level

14 x 24

Acrylics

Hand Drill

18 x 24

Acrylics

Fort Williams Ruins

Fort Williams Ruins

8 1/2 x 10 1/2

Mixed Media

Plein air painting executed with acrylics and gouache, completed with pastels in the studio.

Waiting for lunch

Acrylics

Waiting for lunch

5 x 7

Watercolor

Low tide, Pine Point

Low Tide, Pine Point

11 x 14

Watercolor & Gouache

Gouache Study - Boat at Pier

Boat - Pier

5 x 7

Mixed Media

Inktense lay-in, Pastel base colors followed by Gouache.

Daily Painting - 03/23/2017

Albert Handell Study

Pastel on mat board

AM project, copy a portion of a painting by Albert Handell. Ground is liquid Gesso and Acrylic paint.

Fiery Sunrise

Pastel on mat board

PM project, study from memory of Pine Point Harbor with imagined sky. Background was laid out with pastel colors.

A slight diversion!

Someone gave me a bunch of frames. Unfortunately, they are all odd sizes and do not fit any of my paintings. So I have been trying to find a use for them, a few of them I cut down and put together for sizes I needed.

I checked with Gary at Mill 77 in Amesbury as to what was selling. Most of the frames selling right now are large and painted white. People are watching the show Fixer Upper and want to copy the style of the show. That gave me an idea for some of the frames but not all. My initial thought was to make them into serving trays but Gary indicated that they do not sell all that well unless they were unique in some way. His advice was to make something unique, useful and white. That seems to be what is selling now.

I left Mill 77 with a side table that I paid 16 dollars for. The table had been varnished and someone painted over it with an acrylic paint that was chipping and cracked. I thought that as a first project I would 're-purpose' the table by including a serving tray made from one of the frames.

When I got home I tried adding some frames (soon to be trays) on the table and it did not work at all.

So, the only thing I could do was to strip the paint off and repaint it. A plain white table would be too common, what I needed was something unique. I felt that a table designed to go in a summer cottage would sell.

Being in Southern Maine where summer visitors might want to furnish their summer cottages would be just the thing. The theme I choose was 'Sea Foam', I combined aqua, a light blue and white for the sides and sponged the colors on the top to imitate foam on the sea.

The original table. I was reluctant to remove the art work that someone had so laboriously added to the table, but as you can see the paint was badly cracked and peeling. 

After all the paint and varnish was stripped off.

Starting to add the primer.

Primed and waiting for the painting to start.

Testing to see how it would look.

Waiting for the paint to dry before adding a Poly finish.

Close up of table top.

Completed! 

Manchester By The Sea, Sunset

Manchester By The Sea, Sunset

11 x 14

Oil on Board

Forest Creek

Forest Creek

10 x 14

Acrylics on Watercolor Paper

Forest Creek II
7 x 10
Oil Pastels

Kathy's Sunrise

Kathy's Sunrise

8 x 10

Oil Pastel on Pastel Paper

Scene from a photograph taken by Kathy Kelley-Bonfilio.

Manchester-By-The-Sea Sunset

Manchester-By-The-Sea Sunset

9 x 11

Oil on Board

Cobra waterbased oils on gessoed birch board. 

Quiet Inlet

Quiet Inlet

7 x 9

Oil Pastels

• Ink drawing covered with clear gesso
• Under painting with Inktense colors
• Oil pastels used were; Cray-Pas Specialist, Faber-Castell, Sennelier and Cretacolor Aqua Sticks.
• Outlined with Aqua Sticks then blended with water.
• Added form and texture using various brands of oil pastel.
• Varnished with Sennelier spray varnish and let sit overnight before applying final colors.

Downeast Rocks

Downeast Rocks

9 x 12

Pastel

Downeast Rocks II

9 x 12

Oil Pastel

Experimental - Orual's Veil

Orual's Veil

20 x 30

Mixed Media on Canvas

Toned canvas with Grey Krylon spray paint. Acrylic line drawing of figure then covered with oil paint. Added acrylic colors over entire piece. Highlighted colors with oil pastels.

The title of the piece comes from the main character in C.S. Lewis' story Till We Have Faces, Orual is a princess who is thought to be so ugly that she hides her face behind a veil. The many colors in the painting indicates the many facets of Orual as a daughter, sister and eventually queen. 

Life drawing session - 1/14/17 - @Engine, Biddeford