Landscape
We can hardly believe our eyes in October when the Maine blueberry fields turn rich red, pink, orange. This lasts just a short time, then comes…winter!
Read MoreThe highest point in Maine is Baxter Peak on Katahdin in Baxter State Park. Painted by Alison Dibble, oil on panel 11 x 14 inches.
Read MoreOut in the open air, first you choose your subject. Then you must decide: will you try for a photorealistic representation, or explore how you feel about that subject? In Baxter Peak to Knife Edge, I chose the latter. This is sacred ground for the people of the Penobscot Nation and figures prominently in their creation story. I think of this when I am painting Katahdin.
Read MoreThe moon shines on a wall of ancient blue ice, floating chunks, and icebergs in Greenland in this imagined scene.
Read MoreBlueberry field in autumn is an original fine art painting, one of a kind. The medium is oil on Raymar panel, size 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 51 cm). It is in a simple frame, ready to hang. The price ($1300 USD) includes packing, handling and shipping within the lower 48 states of the…
Read MoreThe daffodils remained colorful for weeks. They seemed to be begging me to come paint them.
Read MoreThe sight of vivid reflections in the morning stillness on the pond was worth our early start in Baxter State Park, Maine.
Read MoreSlow moving ice makes its way through the moonlight to the Arctic Ocean, where the glacier calves without ceasing.
Read MoreThe canvas was too large for an easel, I had to lean it against a large rock. What a moment when the sun came up!
Read MoreFine art painting. I imagine the beautiful Ice Sheet in summer, when big chunks of ice plunge off the face of the glacier and drift off with the currents.
Read MoreFine art painting. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, enormous thick tables of ice on the muddy shore of the river as the ice started to break up.
Read MoreThe oak leaves were still on some trees on the lower slopes, but most of the hills above Penobscot Bay were bare and ready for the cold. Across the Bay we could see all the islands in the clear air.
Read MoreKatahdin in March, Oil on panel, 11 x 14 inches
Read MoreFine art painting. Shafts of morning sunlight same through the spruce trees, warming the mossy carpet.
Read MoreI pushed the color. The actual scene was beige and gray, but the hope of early spring on a rare warm day in March called for rich colors.
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