September 2020

Old Factory Door

9 x 7

Acrylics

Kettle Cove Afternoon

9 x 12

Pastels

Kettle Cove Afternoon II

9 x 11.75

Casein & Gouache

House across the road

Pastels

Plum Island Boardwalk

8 x 11

Acrylics

 

July 2020

End Of Day

7 x 10

Acrylics

Repurposed table easel

Removed the handle and installed it on the opposite side. Installed a pair of garment hooks on the side where the handle was.

The easel hooks onto the tripod. Make sure that the rear leg is shorter than the front ones. This will balance the unit and take the weight of the box off the front legs.

This should give the same storage space as a half french easel with less weight and set up hassle.

April - May - June 2020 (Covid-19 lockdown)

Meeden pochade box setup on back deck.

No Title (4/6/2020)

7 x 9 1/2

Acrylics on Watercolor paper

Cloud Study (4/7/2020)

7 x 9 1/2

Acrylics on Watercolor paper

Longview (4/8/2020)

7 x 9 1/2

Acrylics on Watercolor paper

Untitled
6 1/2 x 9 1/2
Acrylics

St. Marks on the Green
9 x 12
Acrylics on board

Studio view

Oil (alkyd) on board

Downeast One
12 x 14
Acrylics on board

Camp Ellis 3
9 x 12
Acrylics on  canvas

South Portland Rocks
11 1/2 x 8
Pastels

Jake
9 x 12
Pencil

Wildflowers
5 x 7
Watercolor

Chilly Sunrise
6 1/5 x 10
Watercolor

Gary's Saab

Oil on canvas mounted on board
(Started a year ago, finished up on 5/28/2020)

No Parking

9 x 12

Oils

January 2020

Charles Movalli master study

6 1/2 x 8 1/2

Watercolor

The Movalli original was done in acrylics. I did this for the composition. 

Main Street, Biddeford

8 x 10

Watercolor

Woody at the Beach

11 x 7 3/4

Watercolor & Gouache

South West Fishing

9 x 7

Gouache

These were done primarily with Turner Acryl Gouache. The Turner is not as heavy as the Liquitex Gouache, so I used the Liquitex at the end to add to the highlights. The advantages of using these two mediums is that they can be painted over once dry and the under layer will not lift.

December 2019

Front Loader

9 x 7

Goauche on gessoed board

The Red Chair

16 x 20

Acrylics on Canvas

No Room At The Inn

6 1/4 x 10

Watercolor

Pastel Plein Air set up

 The drawing board is painted black to cut down on any glare from reflected light.

 Board is hollow to hold pastel paper.

 Pastel box mounted on tripod.

 Opened pastel box. Center and right hold the pastels. The left is for miscellaneous items.

Complete setup with Guerrilla Painter panel holder. 

November 2019

While driving through Arundel/Kennebunk yesterday, I passed a herd of belted cows just as the sun was setting low in the sky. Inspired by the fall colors of the trees behind the cows and the reflected color of the setting sun, I knew I had to try to capture the mood.

Belted Pair

9 x 12

Pastels

Brant Rock

9 x 12

Pastels

MyPad Easel

Easel built to approximate the size of an iPad.

Components minus the torque hinges and metal canvas slides.

Panel holder section is heavy so mounted it directly to the tripod.

Opened showing canvas slides attached to magnets on the panel holder. Note: Canvas slides can be mounted either horizontally or vertically.

Side view showing deep palette.

Three coats of linseed oil where put on the palette, the rest of easel received one coat.

Folded on the tripod.

The size is 7 1/4 by 10 1/4.

Easel Brush Holder

Easel brush holder.

Cut the top off a condiment/squeeze bottle. Drill two vertical holes one inch apart. Thread a zip tie through the holes. Drill a hole through the spring clamp and thread the zip tie through it and tighten it. Do the same for the other bottle and attach to the other side of the clamp.

The cost to make this is about $12, less than half the cost of the commercial brush holder sold on Amazon.