About Me

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Paramus, New Jersey, United States
No, this in not a blog about gardening in any way, but a journal of my journey to become a professional landscape painting artist. For years, I’ve given my paintings as wedding gifts without thinking of profiting in some way from it. I worked for 18 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC as a computer programmer. I have been a painter since 1990, coincidentally, when I started working at the Met. I watched Bob Ross do his thing on Channel 13 in New York and decided I could do this, too. I have no formal training. I incorporate Bob's wet-on-wet technique for sky and water. My subject matter is covered bridges, lighthouses, fishing village scenes, barns, etc. Maine, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Nova Scotia and Spain are some of the places I have painted. My style is detailed and sometimes people think a photo of the painting is an actual photo of the scene. I hope to continue and grow in this medium. I also like to cook & dance. I am also a committed Christian. I am taking commissions - painting your landscapes style photos or your vacation home. Prices on request. contact me - Jackmck@juno.com my website is www.artofjackmckenzie.com

Saturday, March 28, 2026

New painting: Cardinals on a Snowy Sled

 I found this a close in picture of 2 Cardinals on a snowy sled and expanded it

here's my painting


and here's the image I used


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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

New Painting: Vermont Covered Bridge in Winter

 I love covered bridges. Ive painted so many of them. This is a Vermont Covered Bridge that Ive lost the attribution for. I have problems getting in all the snow covered  branches painted properly. As usual go to  pixels to  get items with this image on them 



 

Thursday, February 26, 2026

New Painting: West Chop Sunset

 This is taken from a photo on a website called Vineyard Colors. There was a man on Martha's Vineyard who picked had a commercial paper route and picked them up from the ferry at 3am. While distributing the to various establishments, he would take pictures all over the island and post them on his website. He gave blanket permission to anyone who wanted to use the pictures. I have done a number of paintings of his pictures and he want to see them.

This is a sunset on the West side of Marth's Vineyard between the island and West Chop Mass. As usual, you get purchase items with this image via Pixels website



Thursday, February 5, 2026

New painting: Lancaster Barn Sunrise

I love going to Amish Country in central Pennsylvania. Lots of great barns and other scenes. This is not from one of my photographs. It's a a sunrise by an old barn. I hope is there's a lot of depth to it.

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

new painting - Ocean Grove Book Boat - Pavillion Entrance

As always, Ocean grove is my favorite place on the Jersey Shore. At many of the entrances to the beach, there is propped against the railing a small boat with books for beach goers to relax with. This day there were skateboards, scooters and a bicycle surrounding it. Active and quiet fun for those who want it. As usual I loaded this painting into pixels so you can buy stuff with this image on it



Tuesday, June 24, 2025

another sale of Sanktay Lighthouse postcards

 Every 6 months or so, some shopkeeper in Cape Cod buys a set of 20 greeting cards showing my painting of the Sanktay Lighthouse at Sunrise on Nantucket. This is their third time. The shop keeper is profiting but i"m getting exposure. So be it


Saturday, March 1, 2025

new painting - Thompson Covered Bridge - New Hampshire

 I love covered bridges as a subject. This summer I stayed at a Christian family camp in New Hamphire with a group of friends for a week, One day I organized tour of four of the local covered bridges, one being the Thompson Covered bridge in West Swayze. Beautiful structure. I got a lot of good pictures. I will be doing paintings of 2 of the others since i could not get a good picture of the the last one.

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