RMW Ramblings

  A Havre de Grace Icon In Havre de Grace at Washington and Green Streets is this much photographed landmark building.  The usual shot is looking downhill on Washington St toward the Hatem bridge over the Susquehanna.  Here's an old snapshot...  My photo above views the turreted structure from Green St. instead.  I was attracted by the orange parking cones echoing the turret roof.  My original thought was to do a painting.  But after some modest contrast enhancements in Photoshop I decided I like the photograph better.  It reminds me of an Edward Hopper painting, but without a lonely figure.

  Iced Tea 1 & 2 Sharing an iced tea alfresco is a favored summer activity. I like doing paintings in sets or polyptychs, and here I have painted Mary and a friend, at home in Wilmington, and then at Carpenter's Point, with their iced tea.   Iced Tea 1 On our rear courtyard deck in Wilmington...     Iced Tea 2 And here, on our small waterfront deck at Carpenter's Point...     The paintings share a color palette, and each is signed with a monogram iced tea pitcher along the bottom.

  Trumpet Vine   The trumpet vine on one of our ash trees is now in bloom. While difficult to control, it's beautiful and attracts hummingbirds.   Here's a little painting in a found frame.    

  Rockford Summer For several years Wilmington's 4th of July fireworks were in Rockford Park.  We had neighbors' parties  afterward.  Here's a rendering on scratchboard.           Scratchboard is black ink over a white ground.  Scratch off the black and the white lines appear,   I have tinted some of the white ground with watercolor,    

  Canyon Greeting An adventurous girl on the edge of the Grand Canyon.  Displayed across the bottom are petroglyphs found in the Canyon region. Kokopelli, the trickster flute player is prominent.  I signed the painting with an RMW monogram in petroglyph style in the lower left. Canyon Greeting was a study in color composition.  Through the magic of digital manipulation, I formed a version simulating a paint-by-the-numbers painting.

  Morning Fog Sometimes my morning walk is in the fog.   Here's a foggy morning in Wilmington on Greenhill Avenue...    And a foggy in Havre de Grace, approaching the Marquis de Lafeyette...    

  Portrait of Mary Of the paintings I've done of Mary, this is one of my favorites.  I later did a smaller version for a thrift store found frame in a cameo style.