Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
PETUNIA AND CHUCK Jim Cleary photo
Here I am this past weekend sailing the world’s best boat… my 74-year-old Herreshoff 12 1/2. Nothing better in the world.
Archive for July, 2011
OUT PLAYING
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
PETUNIA AND FRIEND Jim Cleary Photo
It’s summer in Maine, and when I’m not painting I’m sailing. Somebody once said, “if two sailboats are headed in the same direction, they are by definition racing”. So when Steve Bailey took Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth’s H12 out for some exercise, well….
PAINTING STILL LIFES (LIVES?)
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
PORT and STARBOARD
So you thought all I could paint was boats, huh? Thanks to the encouragement of my mentor Ron Frontin, I’m stretching my metaphorical legs into all sorts of new subject matter. If you think it’s easy to catch the way a silver bowl, devoid of its own color, reflects everything around it, think again.