Two Boats

Here is the current painting I'm working on in my studio.

Fall Rooftops

With the fall trees loosing their leaves new painting spots are revealed.

Here in the east end an unusual red house is revealed that has been painted in a few old Provincetown master painters composition. 

Vollian Burr Rann, painted the red house in his "Spring Landscape, East End". This painting hangs in The Provincetown library.

There is little know about Rann other than he painted in Provincetown and studied art with Charles Hawthorne. The red house depicted in painting  was probably painted a hundred years ago; making it part of this iconic rooftop scenes of the east end in Provincetown.

New England Fall

I just finished this painting of Bradford street. It's almost too cold for me to stand out side and paint. I like to paint this scene in the fall because the colors feel better suited for a fall harmony and there aren't as many people around this typically busy intersection.

Fall on Cape Cod

The fall is a wonderful time to paint on the cape. There are many places that have great foliage, my favorite are scenes of Beach Forest and the ponds.

Beach Forest Moring

Shank Painter Pond

San Francisco Street Scenes

My easel and the bike I used to get around

I found painting in San Francisco challenging on many different levels; knowing where to paint, how your going to get you equipment there and handling the perspective of monster hills.
I figured out where I wanted to paint, I put my equipment in a backpack and biked to my painting location.
Biking across flatter streets using the "wiggle map"
made painting easier than I thought it would be.
San Francisco has some  of the most beautiful urban landscapes in the world. 

Bodega Bay

This week I traveled out to Bodega Bay in California, to experience  painting something new.

I have painted a couple times out there and love the crashing waves over the rocks. It's very challenging to leave my comfort zone of Provincetown.

I will post all the paintings of some of the street scenes, when I am able to download them.

Cottage Street

Here is a painting of Cottage street I'm currently working on. I love studying the flow of light that flows throughout this scene.