Harbor Lace, 20″ x 16″, Pastelbord

Version 1

Version 2

I got to the studio today and was able to finish off two more potential paintings for the Hamptons art fair.  This one was supposed to be the last painting in a series of 4, but I didn’t like the boat in the first version of the picture. I found another photo and did a fifth painting which I’ll post next.  This is Rockland, ME and there  is a red windjammer that sails there regularly. I took a photo of it in 2009 and thought it might make a good painting for this series. But the red in the photo was quite dull and I pushed it, then decided I didn’t like it.It looked hoakey to me!  So I brushed off the red and change it to white with shadows in violet (version 2).  I still didn’t like it. My neighbors at Washington ArtWorks really liked the foreground and felt it should be about that and not about the boat. I agreed. So today, I brushed off the entire boat and put in a much smaller, simpler sail boat.  I like the picture better now. But it’s probably my least favorite of the group.  I thought you might like to see the progression of this painting. It went from being about the boat to being about the Queen Anne’s lace in the foreground–which actually was a different flower!