Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! My plein air set up at a cemetery in Dover NH. For some reason they had the most brilliantly colored foliage! As you can see from the finished piece, I chose to leave out the headstones, not sure I would want to look at them everyday. Great place to paint though, very quiet, just the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, typical fall day in New England.

Fall Foilage 11x14 oil  800. framed plus shipping
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Plein Air

Yesterday painted from my mobile studio setup from the back of my jeep. I have the hatch open with an umbrella bungeed to the top for shade and just pull over to the side of the road when the inspiration hits. I have painted here in York, Maine, many times this summer.  I was making it a mission to study water and reflections. Its a tough job but somebody has to do it!

Beach Day!

                                                         Summertime 24x24 oil

                   Labor Day Weekend , temperatures in the 80's today. A perfect beach day!

OPEN STUDIOS

                                                   South End Fish Market Portsmouth
                                                                   24 x 24 oil

Open Studios tomorrow at the Salmon Falls Artists Mills, 1 Front Street, Rollinsford, NH. 10-5. My studio is number 422 . Stop in and say hello if you are in the area.

Girl In The Green Gown

                                                       Girl In The Green Gown
                                                               6x6 oil     175.

This was another painting of the model from my Tuesday group at the studio. It is so helpful to be able to do these small painting from life and to be able to study the skin tone and postures. Occasionally I will do a larger one in the studio from these studies and reference photos.

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painting the model

                                                            Girl with the Green Scarf
                                                                         6x6 oil
                                                                    280.  framed

This is the painting that was accepted into the Randy Higbee Gallery 6x6 show in CA. I just sent it out today. Again, this is the model Tamara who I have been painting lately. This painting will be available for sale through the Gallery. For more information, contact me at ksmbythesea@aol.com

Painting the model

                                                              Tamara
                                                            6x6 oil 175.

I have been working on small panels, 6x6 inches in anticipation of an upcoming show at the Randy Higbee Gallery in CA. There was a limited number to submit and this was one I chose to keep out of that show. I have been painting this model, Tamara, for the last several weeks and have a few paintings
I will put on here including the one that got into that show. Usually I would work on one small like this one and a large one which I would finish up  after the session in my studio. It was interesting to work on it after she had left, just from memory and trying to just make a good painting rather than a total likeness of the model.

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