RMW Ramblings

 Painting Monograms Most of my paintings are signed with only initials or a monogram.   In my most recent paintings this summer I have incorporated a signature monogram as an element of the painting. In  Sydney's Service  the monogram is her logo on her laptop. In  In My Library  a book themed monogram is on the cover of the book I am holding. The nameplate "RoMiWa" on the sailboat in Bowsprit   is my signature.      

  Bowsprit Bowsprit  is the third of the paintings I did last week.  It is acrylic on canvas, 14 x 11 inches.  The sailboat is loosely based on the skipjack  Martha Lewis , which berths in Havre de Grace.  

  In My Library  In my Library  (acrylic on canvas)  is an imaginary self-portrait in front of one of my library doors.  At 18 x 24 inches it is approximately 3/4 life size. Here's an earlier self portrait,  Figments , from a couple of decades past.      

  Sydney's Service A few days before the 1960 election I was a volunteer usher at at a John F. Kennedy speech and rally at San Francisco's Cow Palace convention center. In his speech Kennedy announced his plan for the Peace Corps.  At the end of the event I salvaged two Kennedy campaign posters adorning the walls.  Years later our granddaughter Sydney served three years in service in the Peace Corps.  When she returned I gave her one of the posters with a note recording its provenance. Earlier this week I did a painting imagining Sydney with the framed poster behind her.  The logo on her laptop is my signature monogram.  

   A Walk in the Park A Walk in the Park  looks under the Van  Buren Street Bridge in Wilmington's Brandywine Park.  Acrylic and pastel on canvas, completed yesterday.

 Treasure Hunt 2025 Yesterday we continued our tradition of grandkid treasure hunts with great-grand daughter  Alaina.  Last year it involved "invisible Ink" (UV fluorescent}.  This year "Clue Keys" and a "Clue Lock." The Clue Keys (popsicle sticks) were numbered, and had color coded letter cells.  She had to insert then to the Clue Lock, made from foamcore, by number align by colors in the Clue Lock window, then read the clues.  Alaina solved it and found the treasure.