RMW Ramblings

Painting Monograms: 2   Some older painting monograms, clockwise from upper left: Poe Meets Dickens,  influenced by 19th century book covers; Equus,  echoing classical Greco/Roman art; my generic monogram, stamped with a hand carved rubber eraser; Fortuna,  on a Venetian architectural view.    

 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.