Monhegan Fish House

Monhegan Island, maine is a painter's paradise.
This building sits on Fish Beach at the harbor.
I have seen this scene painted many times since I painted it but I painted this in 1957.

Poppy

A watercolor of one of the hundreds that grew in our garden.

Spiritus

This very thick oil painting cannot be appreciated without actually being in its presence.

It is very dramatic.

IHS

IHS, "In hoc signo vinces".

This is a large complex oil painting depicting the symbols of man.

In it are contained many mathematical symbols, symbols of the physics of nature and symbols of religion.

What else is there?

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White Lobster

Thick oil paint scratched out with the brush handle to represent tiles.

Silver City

An oil painting using a painting knife and only ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and white.

My favorite colors.

Quiet Harbor

A large tranquil airbrush painting. The boats are home for the night.

Boats and the sea have been a large part of my life. I have crossed the Pacific six times and have logged over 100,000 miles at sea on a US Navy Destroyer (USS TAYLOR DDE 468).

I have owned sailboats from 8 feet long, that I had built myself, to a 37 foot steel cutter built in Holland.

I had owed two Marinas in Mystic, Connecticut from 1971 to 1986.

The sea enchants; it is never the same twice.

On Ramp Off Ramp

This oil painting is of the complexity of the city: the buildings, the sky, the water and the bridges that get you in and out of the turmoil.

Kites

For those of you who have read "The DaVinci Code" this acrylic painting is based on the Fibonacci series.
What appears to be a casual painting of kites is an extremely complex mathematical representation.

Leonardo Fibonacci, or Leonardo of Pisa (1170?-1240?), was an Italian mathematician who established a series of numbers such that each successive number was the sum of the previous two. The series is: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21…(nx+nx+1)…

The ratio of adjacent Fibonacci Numbers approaches the number 1.618 as the numbers approach infinity. This number has some very interesting characteristics and has been designated with the Greek letter F, phi. The number is as important in nature as the letter P, pi, is in physics.
The four kites near the center each lie at one of these ‘Golden Points’. Four kites lie at one half that distance from the edges and two lie at one quarter of that distance. The ‘reference’, or starting kite is the red kite in the upper left corner.
Each kite’s length follows the mathematical formula of 1.2X FXL, starting with X=0 where F=1.618, phi, the ‘Golden Number’ and ‘L’ is the ‘unit length’.
Regarding the number of kites. Consideration was given to the ‘magical’ numbers of 7 and 13. Seven would have implied ‘good luck’ while thirteen would have implied ‘bad luck’ so the number of kites was chosen midway between, or 10, implying ‘no luck’ but total intent.
To have used 7 kites would have eliminated the three largest which would have made the painting weak with too much open space. To have chosen 13 kites would not have allowed all the kites to be seen because there would have been three larger kites which would have overlapped and obscured the smaller kites.
As each kite’s length increased, the proportion of width to length (aspect ratio) was made decreasingly smaller so that the longer the kite, the narrower it became.
Each kite’s tail is equal to the length of the kite and is painted in the complementary color of the kite.
The string that tethers each kite is influenced by gravity so that it hangs in an arc, a ‘catenary’, descending from the attachment point of the kite to the ground and becomes progressively straighter as it nears the ground. All the kite strings would appear to be parallel to an observer on the ground but the kites are being viewed from an altitude close to the largest kites.

Being a physicist, how could I not paint this?

Gourds

An acrylic painting built up with very thick acrylic gel.

The thickness of the paint is as much as 1/2 inch in many places.

Very interesting shadows with some side lighting.

Brown With Leaves

This is another mixed media oil painting.

Over the painting I have worked encaustic.

I enjoy experimenting as you will notice in much of my work.

All That Glitters

This is a mixed-media painting.

Primarily air-brush, glass and tungsten chips

and room-temperature vulcanizing rubber.

It's most interesting under intense light.

My Sister

The is an abstract representation

of the sister that I never had.

Motion in the City--Ferrari

This abstract oil painting is five feet long.

I feel that an abstract painting should be much more than dripping or splashing paint on a canvas.

There should be a unity with regard to color, a repetition of form and line and the painting should be harmonious.

Squeaker Cove

This is a very heavy-textured abstract oil painting

of Squeaker Cove on Monhegan Island, Maine.

This island is a painter's paradise.

Every few feet and in any direction you

walk is a sight worthy of painting.

Coast to Coast

This abstract oil painting represents a sweep across the US from lower Manhattan and Battery Park in New York City to the California Golden Gate Bridge.

I spent my early chilhood playing in Battery Park at the edge of New York Harbor and much later I passed under the Golden Gate Bridge on a troop ship bound for Korea.

Golden Castle

This is an unusual painting.

It is painted in metallic acrylics:

bronze, pewter, copper, silver, gold

and black

Spider

A change of pace. Acrylic painting.

Durham In Fall

An oil painting of a

field in Durham, NH.

Rocky Coast

A composite of a scene of

Monhegan Island, Maine

mixed with some imagination.

The term is 'artistic license'.

Oil painting

Mountain Laurel

This small shrub survived

a very long time at our

old house which had been

built in 1799.

It only lived another year

after I painted it.

Good timing.

Water color.

Morning Marsh

The title pretty much tells the story.

A small oil painting

The Cape

Oil painting of an imagined shore.

Burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and white.

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Strawflowers

A nice combination of weeds

from the yard

in a vase that I made.

Oil painting

Hibiscus

In Jamaica they grow everywhere.

Snack Bar

A laid-back scene at Royal Decameron Montego Bay.

This is the sister resort of Runaway Bay.

Same good food

Same good service.

Same good management.

How can you go wrong?

Tropical Beach-1

This was a small pen & ink sketch that I made on the beach at Club Caribbean then gave it 'life' with watercolor.

A simple way to record your trips.

One Love

Perfect place to be.

.....with the right one!

Glass Bottom Boat

This boat makes a number of trips a day from the resort. You don't have to get wet if you want to see fish and coral.

In addition to the SCUBA diving, you can snorkle at the reefs.

Be aware of the need for sun screen on your back, you can get so absorbed in the view that you can get a serious burn.

Dive Shop

The people at the dive shop are very helpful.

If you want to learn SCUBA diving this is the place.

After an introduction in the pool you can be off to see some of the spectacular fish and coral.

Dive Boats

The water transparency here ranges between 80 to 100 feet.

The water temperature is always 80 degrees.

This is at the beach at Club Caribbean at Runaway Bay.

A watercolor.

Jamaican Hut

This was the first watercolor that I did on one of the early trips to Jamaica.

We had been going there for a number of years before I had considered doing anything other than eating and enjoying the sun and beach.

This is the resort at Club Caribbean, part of the Royal Decameron

group of worlwide resorts.

Jamaica Road

This was a scene in Trelawny, Jamaica which lies on the north shore between Montego Bay and Runaway Bay.
A lot of people walk in Jamaica. Cars are expensive and most roads are bad.
We take owning a car in the US as a 'God given right'. That's not so in much of the world.

Two Gulls

A pair of gulls having a lazy afternoon

at a fishing port.

Gulls are always hungry so they are

always looking.

A water color.

Outcrop

This is part of the fortification of the Revolutionary War

fort, Fort Griswold in Groton, CT.

The fort is situated on the east side of the Thames River

across from Fort Trumbull which guarded the west side of the river and the port of New London.

Both forts were taken by the British by Benedict Arnold's

troops after he deserted the American cause.

Lobster Bouys

New England is home to some fine lobsters.

The lobster 'pots' are dropped into rocky

areas and their location is marked with a bouy

which identifies the owner.

The line from the pot to the bouy can often

be found caught on the rudder of a sailboat

or wrapped around the prop of a power boat.

Beach Rose Path

This is the scene of the right side of my previous painting,

Poppenesset Beach. I took away the fence andI have made

the path to the beach steeper and more mysterious.

Snow Scene

A generic typical winter scene.

An oil painting.

Scalloper

This is a small boat used in the Mystic Harbor, Mystic CT.

Mystic is a very picturesque area in southeastern Connecticut.

Some of the fastest clipper ships ever built were built here in the mid 1800's.

The history stills lives on in the Mystic Maritime Museum.

Italian Doorway

Who lives behind that door?

Are they rich or are they poor?

Are they young or are they old?

Do they have a cat?

Do they have a dog?

Do they have a bird in a cage?

Do they have goldfish in a bowl?

Who knows?

An oil painting.

Main's Farm

A local winter scene of an old farm on Route 184 in Stonington, CT

The Queen Is Down

Somewhat of an abstract oil painting.

The pawns don't know what to do.

BLUE CITY

This subject of this large oil painting

.... is open to your interpretation.

BLACK NIGHT

This oil painting of mine won 2nd prize

at the Mystic Arts Center

in the summer of 2007.

The theme was Red, White & Black

Evening Shadows

Self-explanatory.

An acrylic painting

Fishing Shack

The end of a perfect day

An oil painting

Cattails

The shore--

whether a lake, a river or the ocean

creates tranquility.

an oil painting

Stone Alley

Mysterious in the daylight

....but scary at night!

An acrylic painting.

Palm Path

To the beach!

Again, a path at Club Caribbean in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.

Just imagine, 80 degrees, a warm breeze off the water, reggae music in the background and a rum punch in your hand.

How much better does life get?

.....and in 29 days I'll be back there!

Ya mon, soon come!

Tropical Path

The garden paths at Club Caribbean are like being in another world.

The gardens and paths are incredibly well maintained.

Pecan trees, breadfruit, bananas, coconuts--truly a tropical paradise.

The cottages are of concrete construction, roomy, VERY clean and very private.