Seascape
The moon shines on a wall of ancient blue ice, floating chunks, and icebergs in Greenland in this imagined scene.
Read MoreThe tides sweeps the dinghy out to the end of its painter, where it makes gentle looping motions in the current. First one way, then the other. Waiting for an adventure.
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 MoreGreen Island, original painting by Alison C. Dibble, oil on panel, 5 x 7 inches
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 MoreFine art painting. The tides in Lubec are especially big, with a vast mud flat at the channel. I went out in the foggy dawn to paint the lighthouse.
Read MoreThe marsh grasses are capturing the sun’s energy while the tanbark schooner sails lightly by.
Read MoreA lively sailboat makes its way past a granite-rimmed island in Maine as the tide is coming.
Read MoreCountless storm waves have thundered on the rocky point below, but today in a summer dawn, all is peaceful at the lighthouse.
Read MoreHow to get the background to the recede, and to give the illusion of rapidly moving water? Ah, the pleasures of plein air painting.
Read MoreYear after year, despite raging storms, the lighthouse does its job. No matter the conditions, the lighthouse can be counted upon.
Read MoreThe part of the iceberg beneath the water is usually larger than the part seen above. For this iceberg, extensive melting has led to this dripping remnant.
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