New Painting: COTW - Watching The Sunset

 As stated in previous posts, the Christian Family camp Camp-of-the-Woods in Speculator NY is one of my favorite places. My family has been going there for several generations. This particular time was a September Men's Retreat with the usual cast of sports figures, devotional meetings, good food and a pickle ball tournament. There are also great sunsets. This painting is of a man watching the sunset. As usual you can buy items based on this image from pixels  

New Painting - Amish Harvest

One of my favorite places in Lancaster Pa, with the colliding worlds of Amish Community and "the English" commercialism somehow coexisting. Cars and horse pulled buggies co-existing (more of less) on the sames road. Lots of barns with clothes hanging out on lines. One place I enjoy is Sights and Sounds, which is a Christian Theater with Bible story related production. Very popular.

I was a passenger and I was taking pictures out the window and it was a cool, misty not quite rainy day. We came from route 30 to Strasburg Road, passing by the Railroad museum, up route 896 to Sights and Sounds, with a stop at the Agape Cafe and Grille for lunch., Somewhere along the way, I took the picture this painting is based on, several Amish farmers harvesting their corn using 3 horses and a wagon, out a mist streaked window with the car in motion. I have several other photos I may use. This is 11x14 oil on canvas board.

I had to go online to find similar photos, because I could not tell if the driver was standing or sitting. The pictures I found show both to be the case so I left him standing. As usual you can buy images of this painting via Pixels

Here is the painting and the reference photo

 

Bergen County Art show leads to Instagram sale

Oct  16th was the Bergen County Art Show at Van Saun Park in Paramus. I registered but it's so popular that i did not get in in time. However, 4 days before the show I get a call that there was a cancellation, including getting the schedule I need at Staples. The show was 11 am to 3:30, so I scheduled for 3 and left the show at 2:30. I had prayed for one and had done some preparation for it, plus I had done it before so all the tools I needed were in place. I still had to hashtag all the paintings  I was going to use on Instagram and created a QR code for it and put on my artist sign. Scan and check them out

And here a few photos.It was a beautiful day. I had posted on Facebook and did a friend invite, but few showed up except the usuals, who were mostly people I knew from high school (50 years ago) - John Dunic (who also displayed) Robert Lanotte , Paul Scelzo (being the forever photographer) , Jim Tedesco (now County Executive) and Steve Witko and girlfriend plus John and Vicky Bellis

Now for the Instagram sale. Another fellow Class of 71 alumni Lynda Pasqueretta message me about this picture saying 

Hi Jack! Can you please tell me about this painting? Size? Price, if still available? Could you also send me a better picture? No rush, but thanks so much! Can this be made into notecards? My apologies for so many question

I messaged back that it was called Lavendar on a Blue Chair and posted a link to Pixels, where I post and sell items with my paintings's images on them. https://pixels.com/featured/lavender-on-blue-chair-jack-mckenzie.html?newartwork=true

She bought some note cards and a note book. Hopefully more will come

New Painting - Brant Point Thunder Storm

 Brant Point Lighthouse is one of my favorite lighthouses as I've mentioned a few times in this blog.  Ive done a number of paintings and I'm always looking for a different take on it. I found this picture on Instagram but neglected to include the page name as I usually do. I'm posting it there, so I may find out. I love thunder storms and this is a prime example of both subjects. As usual you can buy stuff with this image on it via Pixels

two paintings sold - Brant Point Sunset and Boothbay Harbor.

A man from Nantucket (no limerick here) found the these two paintings on the Fineartamerica site

Brant Point Sunset: The Brant Point Lighthouse is seen in silhouete in front of the setting sun and

Boothbay Harbor - Maine: a foggy view of Boothbay Harbor looking towards the Mcfarland Island Lighthouse and a red fisherman's shack in the foreground

Always exciting to have 1 painting sell, much less two 

It started out with an email thru Fineartamerica

subject: Original Artwork - Boothbay Harbor - Maine Message: I would like to buy this and the Nantucket sunset After finding out which Nantucket sunset I found out what his interest was: As a child in the 50s and 60s I went to Boothbay   In August 63 I sat two pews away from JFK at Mass He was murdered that November  Now my buddy lives in the lighthouse on McFarland Island My family, parents and two older brothers, has been summering in Nantucket since the 70s in Squam  I own a house on Wauwinet Rd Selling if we can   So I sent it, he Paypal-ed the money. He lives during the year in Florida, so who knows where it will end up

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painting sold and paintings donated

 two events in my artistic life this week

1) I sold a painting to a man in my church - Charles. My art business card has a picture of my Brant Point Lighthouse Sunrise and he decided to buy it. I have several prices

a) Pastor price - 100 dollars for people who feed my Christian Soul

b) Friend and Family - 150 - especially for people whose pictures I use and want to buy them

c) everyone else -200

d) free - wedding gifts and Christian camps that I do paintings of the property and donate them.

Charles is an artist himself and decided on the everyone else price. Pictures Below

2) I donated 3 of my paintings to Camp-of-the-Woods, a place that I have described in previous posts  but suffice to say I am a third generation Camper. They have a webcam called the Campcam that  is set up on one end of the beach and looks to the other end. It also swings to the sunset at the proper time. I gave them 2 paintings from the Campcam, sunset and winter, and on of an older building since demolished with a 3 branch tree that generations of families have take pictures on it. It was also taken down due to age.

I gave them to the front desk and the winter one was hung up immediately in the office because it has a snowman in it and the office staff built the snowman. There is a 3rd floor stairway in the main building with 3 of my previous paintings hanging up. Hope these three will join them. I plan to do a series of Campcam paintings for each season and nice sunsets.