Marshmallow Fluff

Marshmallow Fluff

8 in. x 8 in., acrylic on panel

NFS

Sometimes you gotta paint something for yourself, you know?  I really love retro food labels, and the New England made Marshmallow Fluff is iconic for really never changing up their label art very much.  Nothing else looks like this label, and it's instantly recognizable.  One of the things I really love about painting retro food art like this is that it gives me the opportunity to really study the forms, colors and lines in the designs that we so often take for granted.  This one is going to hang in the house.

Spring Thaw at Portland Head Light

 

Spring Thaw at Portland Head Light

8 in. x 8 in., acrylic on panel

$200 framed 

Being probably the most photographed place on the eastern seaboard, and only 2 hours from my home, it's an easy hole-in-one to paint PHL any time I'm feeling like I just want to create a piece of classic New England.  I've painted and sold this lighthouse a few times over, and feel like I know all its details by heart.  This view was painted from some reference photos we took when we were there in March a while back.  As chilly as it was, the cold blue of the ocean and stark white of the lighthouse looked warmer with the orange and red scrub and grasses matted from the recently melted snow cover.

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True Friends

True Friends

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed (no frame necessary)

This is a painting I recently completed using a great reference photo from @sedwickstudio.  I In this piece, the concern that the three whole pears seem to have for their cloven counterpart is quite lovely and wholesome to observe. I nearly titled it "The Widow," but that was a little too heartbreaking, and I'd rather leave the reason for the concern up to the personal interpretation of the viewer, and ultimately, the buyer who connects with it. 

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Mount Washington from North Conway

Mount Washington from North Conway

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed (no frame necessary)

A March trip up NH Route 16 led to a few snapshots from the car as we rolled through North Conway.  Imposing Mount Washington sits resolute along the straightaway in town, making all the buildings, cars and telephone poles feel like a miniature village.  

 

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Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher

Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher

***WINNER: BEST IN SHOW- SAA Gallery February 2025 Theme Show: All Heart***

11 in. x 14 in., acrylic on cradled panel

$400 unframed (no frame necessary)

This was a piece I painted for a February art show called, "All Heart" for the Seacoast Artist Association in Exeter, NH.  What a challenge this painting was!  There were times I was unsure if I was going to able to successfully render these puckered, shiny, mylar balloons convincingly.  It required careful flexing of the "paint what you see and not what you think is there" muscle.  The balloons, being metallic, curved, and reflective, meant that the colors and shapes over the surfaces of the balloons just didn't seem to make sense for about 80% of the painting experience.  It wasn't until I started in on the lightest shades and the brightest highlights that quite suddenly, the nonsensical forms made sense... and they became shiny red mylar heart balloons.  It was really magical!

Photo reference courtesy Alesia Talkachova @_aleia_t

 

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Oranges and Cranberries

 

Oranges and Cranberries

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed (no frame necessary)

Another #foodpaintchallenge reference from @dennispfeil.art and it was an excellent challenge with a lot of subtle value changes and a variety of muted and saturated colors.  The lighting was also interesting; achieving the transparency of the orange slices and the glowing penumbra around the shadows took some time to puzzle out and get right.  This one didn't flow "straight off the brush," but it sure built some muscle, and I'm happy with the results.  I hope you like it, too!

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Nor'easter - SOLD

Nor'easter

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$130 unframed ~ SOLD! (somebody liked this!)

A simple nocturne painting of a familiar winter sight up here in New England.  For those of you from away, a nor'easter is a snowstorm that backs in on top of New England, spinning counter-clockwise and bringing tons of moisture from off the coast. Nor'easters are usually responsible for dumping higher snow totals than other storms onto us here in the northeast. Roads are covered quicker than the plows can keep up, trees sag under the weight of the snow, and all you can see in the illuminated pillars of streetlights is swirling snow coming down hard and fast.  Just like this.

 

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