Bird's Eye Building

Gouache and ink resist on watercolor paper. This is the old Bird's Eye building on Commercial Street in Gloucester, MA. Soon to be demolished to make way for a hotel.  I will be sorry to see the Fort Square area altered.  I often park here and paint the harbor across the street.

Gloucester Manufactory

10" gouache and ink resist on watercolor paper.

peppermint candy

2" x 3" gouache & ink resist with drawn ink lines.

bubble gum

2"x 3" on buff colored Stonehenge paper.

gouache and ink resist

I have been wanting to try this technique since I read about it on an artist's website. It's great fun, partly because it's a little unpredictable.  I used heavy weight watercolor paper

5x7 oil painted from life in Gloucester.

madonna and child etching

5x7 oil. Location is Townsend Harbor.  This house is across from an antique store called The Cooperage. 

Essex field

10x10 oil on linen.  A scene from Cox Reservation in Essex, MA.  Painted for the "Open Spaces" exhibit at EvenTide.

8x8 oil on panel.  This painting shows my niece Emma at Singing Beach.

Gloucester Marine Railways

This scene is from the boatyard in Rocky Neck, Gloucester.  It's the oldest working boatyard in America.  This is my favorite hangout, and where the three vessels now at the Boston Tea Party Museum were built or restored.  I loved watching the process.  At the right is the scaffolding for The Beaver.

sketching hands

Attended the PAS portrait group, but sketched mostly hands.

Salt marshes, Rye

Painted in Rye, NH on a very windy day.  I was encouraged by the instructor to paint a big sky.   I usually end up with a little strip of sky in my paintings so this was a first

two gull chicks

Oil on panel about 5.5"

Great Island Common

This was painted in New Castle, NH. Size is 6x8.

Gloucester Harbor Loop boatyard

This is the red shack about five years ago-the sign is no longer there.

two boats

Fowle's sign

Oil on wood, about 7".

White boat

Oil painting about 5" on wood. Trying out my Daniel Smith Lapis Lazuli paint.

Old Essex boat and Roughneck Gloucester

Two 11x14 oils on linen available at EvenTide Studio and Gallery located in Essex, MA.

Gloucester Harbor

View from the boat yard. Size is 12x16 on linen.