Motif #1 Days

Saturday, MAY 16th: I will be participating in downtown Rockport’s “Motif #1 Days“. I’ll be setting up my easel on Bearskin Neck/Rockport Harbor and I’ll be painting and greeting the public between 12pm and 5pm.

Friggin' boats

Living where I live it's hard not to be influenced by the surroundings, i.e. the ocean, boats, the beach, and boats.

My work has been mainly figurative over the past few years but I am trying to branch out and attempt painting more landscapes. Not so much because it's what people do here (although it is what people do here) but because I wanted a challenge. Sure, it would be nice to paint something accessible enough for a tourist to buy, but that's not the only inspiration. The main goal is to find a way to expand my subject matter, hold my interest, and have a desirable outcome. What I'd like is to find a space somewhere between traditional landscape and abstract/weird/new. I'm working on it.

This is a little one I did during a plein air session with my student a few weeks ago.