Friday, April 29, 2011

Double Award Winner

Well, I'm psyched! One of my three entries into this year's Leominster Art Association Show won two awards, a First Place Blue Ribbon award in Intermediate Oils, and the Gold Ribbon Award for best piece in the Intermediate class. All I can say is, I'm thrilled! The piece appears in an earlier post of mine, but I'll include it here as well. I've never been able to take a great photo of this painting, but here it is. Next year I'll have to enter the Advanced class.

Orr's Island Retreat- 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel

Monday, April 25, 2011

Traders- Baltimore Clippers and other schooners.

Here's the Traders painting finished. I've had some help on finishing touches. A friend of mine gave me some advice on redrawing my perspective and cleaning up some things. I like it. It's time to call it finished and move on.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Traders- A work in progress

Well, I've been working hard on a new maritime piece. It's based on the top sail schooner La Amistad and I've titled it Traders. It's a study of those hard working schooners that were used in trade around the globe. These same schooners, also known as Baltimore Clippers, were designed for speed and could handle small loads of high value goods, but not great quantities of low value goods. They were used in coastal trade around the world and also worked as privateers when the times allowed- ie, in war time. I believe some also became pirate ships- which makes sense, since they'd want speed and flexibility. Anyway, I hope to finish it in the next couple weeks, and it will be submitted for a juried show and if it gets in, great, if not, it should be available for sale by mid June. Thanks for looking.