portfolio images

With my new camera, I have been retaking photos of older work, in my first attempt to put together a portfolio. The above photo is one of my favorites from California, called Chualar Rapeseed Field. Chualar is an old farmer worker community, in the middle of the Salinas Valley. The mountain is Fremont Peak. Sometimes I call it, 'Chualar Rape.'

'Where Once He lived' is a Tombo pen and ink sketch I did on my cousin's boat one hot day in the cove across from Castine, Maine. An old fishermans hut is barely visible in the undergrowth. No one has lived there in a long time.

'Foggy Dawn' is one of 4 watercolors I played with trying out large scale watercolor images. I love the mystery and romance of wet watercolor painting, and consider this a real Zen moment. It was in a Los Angeles watercolor show in the mid-2000's.

'Old River Dory" is an image I have worked on to try and add drama. But there is something quietly majestic about the dory shape that adds its own drama, so I've failed in several versions of this. But this one seems to be ready to go, as dories always are.

'Linekin Bay Island' is a pen and ink image from my cousin's porch in Bayville, Maine. There are several versions in some color, and in black and white. I love island images even though no person is an island. It sometimes feels that way.

Back in the Salinas Valley, I spent a lot of time up at a ranch above Soledad, where friends were planting and developing a vineyard. Grapevines have the most amazing shapes when they are pruned for growing wine grapes, and against the hills and mountains of that Valley, they have a special drama.

"Carlos" came to a costume class in Pacific Grove dressed as a golfer. Some people let him be a golfer, I think I saw something deeper. He was actually a Mexican radio man. His life was not simple.

'Cowgirl' came one day to a class in Carmel. She was quite shy though quite famous as a rider. She lives now at the ranch in Soledad. But she more than fills this screen.

'Yankee Man' teaches math at Cal State Monterey Bay, but his heart remains in Weld, Maine, on the shores of Lake Webb. Tumbledown Mountain is in the background.

That's enough for now. I've been at my son's 38th birthday party which he gave with his niece's, my grandaughter's 9th birthday. It was all very happy and fun...

To be continued...and on www.artcollectormaine.com