Wednesday, January 9, 2013

WATER Paintings

Beach Day 

(40"x 30")


Floater

(54" x 54")
This is what I see when I am looking underwater, swimming with goggles on. 
I've had this floater as long as I can remember.  I think it looks a little bit like Italy.  

The Pacific Looking Tropical

(36" x 24")
Driving down towards San Diego, there's a place on the 5 freeway where the ocean looks 
like the Caribbean. 

The Backstroke

(circa 2009, 36" x 24")
What else to say about all these water-related pictures?  That I'm a Pisces?  That I love to swim? ... I had such a pool obsession that I used to jump into almost any pool, spring, summer, fall.

VERMONT, FAMILY, HUDSON RIVER

Vermont Sunrise From the Deck

(40" x 32")
Since I'm a nightowl, I'm more of a sunset person, but when you have to get up at dawn to use the bathroom, there's your chance...

Traffic Light, Wilmington, Vermont

(30" x 24")
Sometimes the traffic light seems to take forever.
It's worth it.
(p.s. I gave town of Wilmington a giclée copy of this, and it's hanging in the Town Offices
next to the elevator.  Also, the blue building was formerly a bank, and the weird square on the front
was the alarm box.  It burned down a few years ago.)

The White Square Is The River2009
36" x 48" 

Linda and Mark by the pond

(32" x 21")
I made an attachment with a 3D net-and-wire "arm" embracing them.
No one liked the arm but me.
Alonso is working on his ball to the right.



Hastings River Walk (with my brothers and Carina)

(30" x 40")
You can sort of see where the traintracks are below,  looking down from Rowley's trail.

A link to a Rowley's Trail article...


Scary Happy House, Hastings-on-Hudson
about 18"x 27"?
There's a cool little patio below the house, and from this view it looks kind of creepy to me,
although usually it's pretty benign....

SOME FORAYS from around 2009 or so

I Close My Eyes After the Treadmill
This is an after-image painting.
(40" x 30")



















Exactly what did you mean by that?
(Pigeon on the skylight)
(36" x 24")












Vermont as a Suitcase
Okay, I probably went a little too devious here.
It's a sideways map shape of the state of Vermont with little icons of barns, silos, churches and barns on it.  Wanted it to look like Vuitton luggage.
(30" x 24")


LAKE WHITINGHAM, VERMONT paintings of yore...

Lake Whitingham II (circa 2005, 48" x 30")
with my brothers and sister-in-law Carina.
Here is a link to this southern Vermont town's website...Vermont rocks!

Lake I (with my brother John, invisible under the rigging that he was trying to set up...)
(circa 1999, 40" x 30")
Lake Whitingham, near Wilmington Vermont.  When I was 10, my parents rented a house for a month in nearby Jacksonville for two summers in a row.  We would go to the lake and picnic and swim (and sometimes canoe) for hours.  So started my lake obsession.

Lake Whitingham III (with Alex and a large black dog)
(probably started about 2001, finished(?) 2012,
20" x 16")