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