Lobsters, Again???

The top 5 ft x 3 ft oil painting of lobsters is still on my easel, not done yet.  But I am loving painting lobsters again.  The image below is a 9" x 12" gouache painting I did from my live model in Maine, done on slippery yupo paper.  

I shared the painting of the lobster below with a friend of mine, whose reaction "Lobsters again?" made me laugh.  Did anyone say to Monet, "waterlilies again?" and suggest he find a new subject?  Well, lobsters are my waterlilies.  I still have more lobster paintings in me.

Seawall, Maine

When I was in Maine a week ago, I went out to Seawall, a natural rock formation on Mount Desert Island along the coast.  I intended to paint there, but the weather was getting stormy, so I sketched in a notebook, took reference photos and worked on a oil painting when I got back in the studio.    

I've been painting in gouache so much lately that the oil paint felt like great.  I loved playing with it and having it move around and mix.  And the soft edges!  What a lot of fun.

Maine

It's hard for me to express in words just how much I love the house that we rent in Maine. Thank goodness I have paint to say it for me. I have painted the house every year, at least once, for the past 12 years from every angle. The watercolor is one I painted probably 12 years ago when we first rented the house. This year, I worked on my view of the rugosa roses on the beach, looking up at the house. The rugosa rose painting is going to hang in the Foundry Gallery next month, for sale (1318 18th St., NW, Washington, DC), if you want to see it close up and personal. For the house itself, you'll have to go to Maine.