RMW Ramblings

      Havre de Grace Waterfront Art 2   Another fish on the HdG Promenade Grille barrier paintings is a striped bass, which we here call a rock fish. My take on this tasty fish was sold years ago, but I still have a picture. He's capturing a Mayfly.  

Havre de Grace Waterfront Art   Havre de Grace Waterfront Art 1   An outdoor seating area asides a snack grille at the marina end of the the HdG waterfront promenade. Earlier this year the protective Jersey barriers were painted with images of the fauna of the Chesapeake by local artist Ezra Berger and a supporting crew. Aqueous Chesapeake denizens on the parking side, birds on the seating side.        Many of these I have painted myself in the past. We'll look at a few. My yellow perch swims by my desk at the cottage.  

  Staffage Staffage    ​ [stafaʒ] is the term used in art for figures in a painting or photograph that are not the primary subject of the picture.  The silhouetted figures in my photograph, Sunset at Lido Key, are important elements of the total composition but not its focus.      The crowd in Isabel Bishop's Dante and Virgil in Union Square ,  a favorite of mine at the Delaware Art Museum, is similarly a use of staffage.   Here are staffage examples from some of my paintings...

  Principio Flying with the gulls I painted this postcard size cartoony acrylic sketch of the office of the historic Principio Furnace iron works ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principio_Furnace) near our summer cottage.  

Tête-à-Tête  Tête-à-Tête  

  Beeline   Beeline is another small acrylic painting on a black ground.  The ground paint on some of my black ground paintings I spray painted with matte black paint.  Others were brush painted.  Prepared canvases with black ground coats are sometimes available commercially, but I've not seen these postcard size canvasboards in black.

  Votive A Moth Drawn to Flame Votive: A Moth Drawn to Flame.  Another post card size acrylic sketch, sent off to an old college friend who was relocating after a divorce.