Havre de Grace

Bridges are America’s cathedrals.
-Author unknown

This painting is 12 x 16 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Distant

Tree branches frame this distant house. This piece is 6 x 6 oil on hardboard.

Exit 100

I-95 is the most heavily traveled route in Delaware, linking Washington to the south with Philadelphia to the north.

This piece is 9 x 12 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Eastern Shore

The Eastern Shore has always been a distinctive region, and has several times attempted to split off from the state of Maryland. Proposals have been debated in the Maryland General Assembly in 1833-1835, 1852 and recently in 1998 for the Eastern Shore becoming its own state. Early proposals encompassed a state of the entire Delmarva Peninsula. - "Eastern Shore of Maryland," Wikipedia

This is 14 x 11 oil on hardboard.

Green

The word green is closely related to the Old English verb growan, “to grow”. This is 6 x 6 oil on hardboard.

Breakout

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is 14 x 18 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Offroad

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

This is 11" x 14" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Recession

There are few things as tranquil and serene as an empty parking lot at night.

This is 11" x 14" oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Surrounded

This is another painting from Valley Forge. I never realized it before, but I have a fascination with the place, I'm sure you can see why. I'm really happy with how this painting turned out.

This is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard.

Big Night

Tonight I had the pleasure of attending and exhibiting in the Rehoboth Art League's 72nd Annual Members' Fine Art Exhibition in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.  I am very pleased to announce that I won the Faucett Okie Award, which is given to an emerging Delaware artist working in oil or pastel, in a traditional style.  "For Rent," the painting in the exhibition also sold within the first hour to a great couple that I know will give it a good permanent home. This bird house is no longer for rent... it is SOLD.

Up

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

This is 12" x 9" oil on hardboard.

Art Brut

Most of my art history classes dealt with post-impressionism or Italian examples of pietàs. When I looked online for some help with today's post I found out that Art Brut is "a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture" according to Wikipedia.

This is 6 x 12" oil on hardboard. Contact me if you're interested in purchasing this piece.