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.

Trunk


If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.
-  W. B. Yeats

This is 7 x 7 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Separation


Tree dad, without all the complications of a human divorce, is on his way to find a younger tree partner without so many rings around her trunk and possibly without so many nests in her branches. The tree children stay firmly planted behind their mother wondering if the next day will bring rain or sunshine.

This is 8 x 10 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

I've added the dates for some of the art shows I'll be in this summer to the right-hand side of the blog. Mark your calendars!

Diligence


"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." - Buddha

This is approx. 6 x 11 oil on hardboard. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Neighborhood


Estimated number of acres of U.S. farmland lost to development each hour: 114 (Harper's Index Book Volume 3. 146)

I put more planning into this painting than I do with most of my work. I try to create work quickly and if it works, great! If it doesn't then tomorrow is a new day. Every time I sketched this painting out it never seemed wide enough. Going too wide, however, simply resulted in two paintings stuck together. It was also important to me not lose that imitate quality smaller paintings provide.

This is 12" x 48" oil on hardboard. Please contact me if you're interested in this piece.

Shade


From the official Valley Forge website... "Few places evoke the spirit of patriotism and independence, represent individual and collective sacrifice, or demonstrate the resolve, tenacity and determination of the people of the United States to be free as does Valley Forge." Oh, yeah, and it's beautiful.

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

Beach House


This is one of the mobile homes that surround the Fenwick Island lighthouse. This is 5" x 6" oil on hardboard.

Townhouse Shadows


Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. - Junichiro Tanizaki

Thift Shop Bike


Somebody must be working early today. This is 6" x 6" oil on hardboard. If you're interested in this piece please contact me.

House By The Road


Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
- Sam Walter Foss

This is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel.

Morning Road


"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own force, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction." - Woodrow Wilson

This is 6" x 8" oil on canvas panel.