New Painting - Nantucket Rainbow Fleet Parade

 Have I mentioned how much I enjoy Nantucket, an island off the coast of Massachuetts? For many years I have gone there to bike the Island with a group of friends while staying at the Hostel on Surfside beach the 3rd weekend in September. I have done a number of paintings of the Brant Point lighthouse.

Nantucket is a former whaling port which has become inhabited by very rich people, full of yachts and expensive sailboats. One of the the events of the summer is the Rainbow Fleet Parade which I have never witnessed, but images of it are everywhere. This parade of multicolored sailboats wheels around the lighthouse with throngs of people watching and i came across a picture that gives a feel of that. I'm not good at doing people but decided to give it a go. As usual, you can buy items based on this image form the Pixels site

Here's the painting

 Again, despite the ring light, it still photographs darker, so maybe a new camera is in order

Here is my reference photo. The sails were all one color, but i looked at other pictures and saw many striped sales, so I added those in. The Lighthouse now has an American Flag on it, so I added that in. There are more people than I painted in, but I felt I put in enough to give it the right feel.

Here is the reference photo and some paint progress shots

 

New Painting - Snowy BarnAlbion Maine

 I get many of my painting subjects from friend's  pictures off of Facebook and in this case, it was my nephew DJ (Donald) Mckenzie who lives on my brother's farm in Albion Maine. I have done paintings from pictures his mother and sister posted and now he joins my list. 

There was a snow storm and he took a a number of pictures and I saw this one and decided to paint it. So here's what I painted

Here is the painting.

and here is the source photo

The painting for some reason photographs darker than it is. I even brought a ring light to help, and it did, but not as much as I wanted.