This is the Laura B – Monhegan Boat Line – on a foggy Port Clyde (Maine) day. This boat is also known as the mailboat. This is one hard working boat – it delivers freight (you wouldn’t believe what all can fit on this amazing vessel) to Monhegan, and also picks up items from Monhegan. It’s the “early” boat – We recently came back from the island on this boat in fairly rough seas. It didn’t have a problem. These boats will run when others will not. So when Monhegan Boat Lines doesn’t run due to weather, you know it’s wicked! I’ve seen videos that have me scrambling for my Sea Bands, haha. A beautiful boat indeed!
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Ok, so this was taken this past summer when I was in Michigan for a quick visit with my family. It doesn’t seem as if it was taken that long ago. Sunsets are amazing and I am addicted to them, haha.
The broad expanse of that wonderful pink light both in the sky and on the water is breathtaking, as are the swirls of clouds!
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Here is just a small portion of Susan’s Flower Garden – Monhegan, Maine. My first thought when I saw these flowers was that they appear to be reaching for the heavens. Gloriously happy and bright, with the sun shining warmly upon them.
I wonder how many people have smiled (or have taken photos) as they’ve walked past these flowers?
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A photo snapped on the way back to the Island Inn (Monhegan, ME) after time spent walking around taking photos. Great shadows in the road. On your left is the wonderful flower garden I post many photos from, hard to tell in this photo, but trust me… gorgeous!
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As many of you know, Monhegan Island is full of artists. Easels set up everywhere, paintings being created left and right. It’s amazing the talent on one small island.
Stan Moeller was giving a workshop and in the photo above they were painting on the lawn. This was a tricky week with a lot of fog, should make for some cool paintings!
Stan Moeller was the featured artist this year in the Island Inn dining room – very nice. Check out the Lupine Gallery for more work (click HERE to view paintings).
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Monhegan. A beautiful island in Maine located about 10 miles off the coast. This island is so special. The only trucks you see are working trucks (deliveries, etc.) – everyone else is on foot. There is so much history on this island and the amount of talent is immeasurable.
Monhegan is also home to the most beautiful flowers. Everywhere. Gorgeous!
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This is an image from the archives – taken at Viansa winery in Sonoma, CA. This was taken waaaay back in 2005. But I’m still remembering what a great time we had and how after spending time in San Francisco (and loving it!) there was a world so different just a short distance away! The timing of this shot is unfortunate – mid day bright light, but you can still see how beautiful it was and i’m sure, still is!
Azalea and Van Gogh by Sarkis Antikajian 25×30 Oil
What wonderful paintings! I looked through them forever before selecting one for today’s feature. You must go check for yourself. I could have easily picked any one of Sarkis’s paintings – they are different – they are so wonderfully loose and expressive with gorgeous color and brush strokes. Wow!
Sarkis was born in 1933 in the Middle East to Armenian parents and immigrated to the United States in 1958.
After a 35-year career as a pharmacist, he attained his childhood dream of becoming a professional painter and is now a nationally recognized and award-winning artist.
Whether working in his Cheshire, Oregon studio or on location, Sarkis paints and draws in oils, watercolors, pastels and inks. His varied subject matter includes figurative, landscape, still life and abstract. He also enjoys sculpting in clay. Continue reading HERE…
Isn’t this a beautiful home in Grosse Point, MI? I snapped this a few months ago through the car window (sorry about that) – ahhh! The lines of this house are STUNNING! The windows really add to the charm. This home was for sale (a few months ago) – it was a little out of our price range, haha. This is a fine home – very big – and drop dead gorgeous!
Mark Mehaffey. Mark’s paintings are something special. I love those bits of underpainting showing through – it gives the painting pizazz (as if it really needs it!) – great shadows – the trees are magnificent!
I’ve been drawing and painting my whole life. I started painting with watercolor at the age of 10 and never stopped. My parents and my early teachers encouraged me to paint, I suspect to keep me out of trouble. It worked….more or less.
Some of my earliest memories include trying to match the colors I saw while using a child’s set of watercolors. Hours were spent in this endeavor. After 55 years of painting I’m now more inclined to paint the colors I feel than the colors I see. Paintings always take on a life of their own. Sometimes a work requires a studied design approach, making a plan and following that plan, at other times a more intuitive visceral approach is called for. I let the idea and content of my work dictate the materials and techniques used….not the other way around. Other ideas dictate an exploration of surface and textures, relying on the initial concept and intuition to bring the work to a conclusion.
Above all I value creativity and honesty. And although I follow many paths and speak with more than one voice, I am on my own journey. I have two wishes…one is to live a few more hundred years, for I shall never have enough time to paint all the ideas in my head. Probably won’t see that wish granted. That second wish? That somewhere along my journey I will communicate with fellow travelers who will see something of what I see and feel something of what I feel…
Fred brought this plate in after grilling it outside. Oh does it ever smell good!
This is a fabulous dinner on a hot day, or a day that you don’t want to clean up in the kitchen… I zapped the potatoes in the microwave for a few minutes until almost done, then wrapped in foil and put on the grill with the chicken and corn.
Fred cooks the chicken almost entirely, then he slathers the BBQ sauce (homemade makes all the difference) leaves it on the grill for a few minutes and then takes it off – oh! Is this ever tasty! Check out the link to the BBQ Sauce – so quick and easy. I freeze the sauce in an ice cube tray and once frozen quickly toss into a ziplock and put back in the freezer. When I need it I pull out a few “cubes” and tada!
Mary Sauer. Wow. I love her perspective on people and the different settings she paints – so creative! But don’t just take my word for it… I am loving her paintings! This painting has so much detail and you can look at it for hours yet it still has a painterly quality that makes it so interesting. Not easy!
Painter Mary Sauer was born in Greenville, Kentucky in 1986. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States including over a dozen shows in New York City alone. Mary is a 2014 recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for traditional figure painting and winner of the 2014 Director’s Award at the Springville Museum of Art’s annual Spring Salon. Mary’s art is influenced by nineteenth century painting including John Singer Sargent, the Pre-Raphealites, and the French Academics as well as contemporary realist academic painting and fashion photography. Her philosophy is to combine the nineteenth century techniques of painting with more modern conceptual ideas, especially regarding how we present ourselves to the world psychologically.
Her work has been featured on the cover of American Art Collector Magazine, in the annual, “21 Under 31,” feature in Southwest Art Magazine, and in feature articles in both International Artist Magazine and the April 2014 issue of The Artists Magazine. Her painting, ‘Anna’ was awarded Best in Show at the 2012 Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition, for which she was again a finalist in 2013. Her education includes a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University in 2009, further studies at The Art Student’s League of New York and The Grand Central Academy of Art, and an MFA from The University of Utah. For two years she apprenticed in the studio of master painter William Whitaker. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University teaching advanced life drawing, at the University of Utah teaching painting and drawing, and currently at Utah Valley University where she teaches the Painting the Human Head(portrait painting) class. Her work is in a number of permanent collections including those of the Springville Museum of Art and the LDS Church History Museum. She maintains an active portrait career and is represented by Sloane Merrill Gallery in Boston, Anthony’s Fine Art in Salt Lake City, and Meyer Gallery in Park City, UT. She currently resides near Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband David, an operatic tenor, and their daughter Scarlett.
I ran across this good boy at Fritz Porter in Charleston, SC – if you need a non-shedding dog, perhaps one that doesn’t need to eat – or be walked… I think I’ve found your perfect companion! He’s a little tricky to walk, but…
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Another post on the therapeutic effects of water – watching the stillness, the reflections – ahhh… relaxing, isn’t it? There is nothing like being here, especially earlier in the morning. It’s so peaceful!
Happy weekend! Catch you back here tomorrow!
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Saw this happy sunflower on a morning walk and had to run up and take a quick photo. Sunflowers are so cool how they follow the sun – they appear to be smiling.
Happy day to you! It’s Friday – woohoo!
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