Hello Friends–I’m back in Maryland where it is hot and humid after two of the most remarkable weeks that  I can remember in Massachusetts in June. Everyone said “this is the way we always remember June being.”  Cool, clear, 70’s, gorgeous!  Not every day, but almost. I spent many of the  mornings outside painting, filming, walking, and the afternoons at the hospital, then rehab center, visiting my mother. Yesterday she was moved to her new apartment in a very nice assisted living facility and I’m hoping that her cat will be joining her today!  It was a remarkable visit. My mother is a very strong woman and is making remarkable progress. But she can’t read nor tell time and has a ways to go.

I’m sharing 4 paintings with you, the first two in this post. None of the these are great paintings, but I wanted to share them anyway. These first two have personal significance to me. The one with the garage is my mother’s yard.  I began a painting of the yard in the morning but hated it. So later in the day I brushed off as much pastel as I could and did a completely different painting over it!  I had to use soft pastels to make it work and really liked the effect.  The second, Shining Tides, is unusual for me as I did it with no underpainting, using nothing  but local color. It was the second of two paintings done in a morning. I sold the first one off the easel to a former neighbor!  This house was the manor house for the 300 year old farm house that we rented when we first moved to Mattapoisett.  When we moved there it was red and it was always called The Shining Tides. It was a Y camp for some years,  but now seems to be a rental facility for weddings.  As you can see, it’s been added to over time, creating a mass of small planes!  I couldn’t resist painting it–done in about an hour with a little more work in the studio.

Garden with Late Day Shadows, 12 x 12, Fisher

Shining Tides, 12 x 12, Fisher