Jackknife Cove, Chatham

This past week I taught a painting workshop for The Creative Arts Center in Chatham. We go out on location usually picking a different spot every day! Jackknife Cove is one of my favorites for the first day .It is just minutes away from the Creative Arts Center. I demonstrate in watercolor but I encourage any medium because there are many tips that can be taught that can be used with all mediums. One of the best tips for me was from Charles Sovek. In his oil painting workshop,he said to make sure to make some of the trees not so dense that a bird couldn't fly through them. It is easy to keep on "painting the leaves or pine needles on the tree" until every bit of sky is covered. So I warn my students to be careful of this happening. The second day we went to a town landing in Orleans which is between Mill Pond and Robert's Cove.

Chatham Bars Inn

I painted this watercolor of the Inn with its antique cars parked out front. The image size is 26" X 20" and the frame size is 28" x 22"'selling for $1000. I have also made prints and cards of it which can be seen on my web site.
The Inn is facing the ocean across the street and has a boathouse which serves meals too!
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First Grader

It has been a while since I have put any paintings of mine on my blog. This is a very busy time of year because I am trying to catch up with commissions with paintings of houses, inns, people and gazebos this summer . "First Grader" is a square painting I did this February of a little girl I photographed four years ago in a south Florida school where my sister Stephanie was assistant principal. Stephanie said to me this winter ,"When are you going to paint that little girl ?" I found the photo immediately (to my surprise) and painted this 24" x 24" acrylic. It sells for $1200 with a steel gray wood articulated frame Someone who works in a school system in the Boston area asked if I were going to make prints of this painting. So if anyone would like a giclee on canvas including the hand-painted 24" x 24" frame to match, it is $400 plus tax.