Portfolio
Shown below are small-sized images of thirty-four of the paintings that I have created. Click on any of these images to see more information about available products that you can purchase that are printed using a high-quality resolution of that image.
MORE RECENT ART PRINT IMAGES
In the middle of 2022 I felt comfortable enough in my abilities to switch from inexpensive stretched canvas to more expensive archival-quality linen-covered wooden painting panels. This change enabled me to paint details much more easily and accurately and now I only use these as my painting surfaces.
HV20: Small Coastal Harbor
HV21: Ichabod Goodwin House (Ancestor)
HV22: Baileys Island Tidal Pool
HV23: Ogunquit Marginal Way
HV24: Portland Head Light After Big Storm
HV25: Sayward / Wheeler House (Ancestor)
HV26: Winter Dawn at the Seacoast
HV27: Ithaca Falls in Autumn
HV28: Barrell Grove House (Ancestor)
HV29: William Vaughan House (Ancestor)
HV30: Tretower Court & Castle (Ancestor)
HV31: Passing Nubble Light
HV32: Fall Foliage Reflections
HV33: Egret in Scarborough Marsh
HV34: Bald Eagle Soaring Above Seacoast
HV35: Thirsty Bear at Low's Bridge
HV36: Beaver Repairing His House Roof
'Our Town' Quadtych IMAGES
I've always been intrigued by Thornton Wilder's play 'Our Town' and its inherent way of summarizing life. After several years of thinking about how I could do a painting about this, I finally conceived an idea of using four paintings that would be assembled together into a panoramic image of 'Our Town' thus producing a quadtych -- and with each of the four paintings representing both a season, and a depiction of a phase of the cycle of life.
In early 2023 I refined my concepts and defined in more detail what each of the "quadtych panels" would depict before I began any painting. To help unite the individual paintings into a cohesive panorama, I used the background elements of the surrounding hills, roads, and stone walls to sweep across the panels. Thus each panel depicts a phase in the cycle of life and is depicted in the corresponding season of the year. In addition, I decided to add corresponding representative flowers in the lower-right corner of each panel. To ensure that a viewer's focus would be on the overall theme of the quadtych, the painting of the panels was purposely done in a slightly more "primitive" artistic style so that the viewer 's eye would not be distracted by too many details.
After all four 12' x 16" original painting were painted and had dried, I assembled them into a custom-made frame and added white separating strips made from 'Peel and Stick Flexible Vinyl Molding Trim' purchased from Amazon. As shown below, the finished quadtych is about 17" high x 49" wide and hangs above my fireplace mantle giving a panoramic view of 'Our Town'.
Images of each of the four individual paintings are shown below. To assemble a quadtych, the easiest way would be to purchase a 'Unframed Canvas' Art Print of each of the four paintings -- then connect the back of the stretcher bars together. If you do that, I also suggest that you add the white panel separator pieces to cover the adjacent edges of the paintings. Another way would be to just purchase each of the four images as Framed Posters and hang them touching side-by-side.
HV16: Our Town (Spring / Childhood)
HV17: Our Town (Summer / Courtship)
HV18: Our Town (Fall / Adulthood)
HV19: Our Town (Winter / Reflection, Death & Hope)
"44-Year Painting" PRINT IMAGE
In 1977 I left my job as the Director of Management Information Systems at Cornell University and embarked on a whole new career in the fledgling microcomputer industry. After 'Apple' and 'IBM' released microcomputer products over the ensuing months, the industry exploded and I no longer had time to do oil painting -- thus leaving one painting half-finished. That unfinished and unprotected painting subsequently was moved around the country for over forty years but miraculously survived.
After I started painting again in 2021, as explained later, I purposely did not attempt to finish this painting until I felt comfortable that I had regained the skills to do so. In 2022, after having finished the first four "Re-Start" paintings shown later, I finally finished this painting.
HV06: Spring Has Arrived
Early ART PRINT IMAGES
I started my first oil painting back in 1967, inspired by Winston Churchill's pamphlet "Painting As A Pastime" that I accidentally discovered when visiting a library. Although I never took any art lessons, I did review a few pamphlets about painting techniques. Over the next ten years my methodical work only produced five complete paintings. Four of them are shown below. {'HV03' is in a private collection and not available.}
HV01: Earth-Rise View from Space
HV02: Yellow Loosestrife in Garden
HV04: Watching Bald Eagle
HV05: The Stagecoach Arrived
"Re-Start" ART PRINT IMAGES
Many years later, and after settling down in a retirement community in Maine, I began thinking about the possibility of doing oil paintings again. Because I hadn't done any oil painting activity for forty-four years, I first did research on the internet about current oil painting supplies and suggested brands. In 2021, based upon many recommendations I purchased a "Introductory Kit" of artist-quality oil paints from a new Oregon-based company named Gamblin that specialized in high-quality environmentally-friendly oil painting supplies. Although I began to experiment with mixing colors again and painted some "blobs" of color on some inexpensive canvas-covered cardboard panels, I wasn't sure of how to proceed.
Having many doubts of how and if I really should try painting again, I did more research on the internet. Eventually I discovered a series of older but intriguing short videos of "How To ..." painting demonstrations by a TV-personality named Bob Ross. Thus, I decided to try to follow a few of his demonstrations "to get the juices flowing again". I made four paintings as shown below before feeling confident enough to finish the earlier painting that had been moved many times but remained half-finished for forty-four years.
HV07: Western Valley (Ross-Style)
HV08: Mountain Mists (Ross-Style)
HV09: Mountain Lake (Ross-Style}
HV10: Ocean Waves (Ross-Style)
After finally finishing the "44-Year" painting, I started creating my own painting subjects again. Like the other "Re-Start" paintings, I used inexpensive stretched canvas for my painting surface. Because of the inherent flexibility of such a surface, however, I only did four more paintings on stretched canvas before deciding to switch to the more expensive archival-quality linen-covered wooden panels that I use today. {'HV12' is in a private collection and not available.}
HV11: Coastal Maine Lupine
HV13: Mt Katahdin in Early Fall
HV14: Yellow House Above Marsh