Radish

16" by 22" Oil on Panel

Music and Art Salon

I took some of my paintings to another salon hosted by Suzanne Saint Onge and Tom O'Farell. Some good musicians performed, especially a teenage boy who played the dulcimer beautifully.

Boat Projects Continue

Ca Ira's companionway hatch boards fit nicely now that I've epoxied strips of mahogany on either side to widen them. The photo shows the test fit, now I'm varnishing them.

I'm also varnishing Morgaine's spars.

I filled this hole in Ca Ira's aft deck with epoxy. I'm not really sure why it formed, but I'll watch the epoxy patch and see if it holds.

Every year when I haul Ca Ira, I find that a few of the bolts holding on her pintals and gudgeons have broken and I have to replace them. I'm not sure why the bolts break, but this year, I photographed the bolts that I replaced so that I can see if the same bolts break next year.

Two Landscapes

Here's two en plein air watercolor sketches of the Chesapeake Bay. I painted them both at Terrapin park on Kent Island. The larger one is 12" by 15." I was looking north towards Baltimore. The smaller one is 7" by 10." It's the entrance to the Magothy with a tug pushing a barge south down the Bay.

Eggplant

Purple abstract oil on canvas painting. 20" by 25"

Sewing Projects

I built this cover for my father's Whitehall, Landseer.


I made this tiller cover for my Pearson Triton, Ca Ira.



I also made a tool roll for my screwdrivers.


And after I rebuilt Ca Ira's forward hatch, I made a cover for it.

Terrapin

I painted this marsh scene last Friday on Kent Island.

7" by 10" Watercolor

Rip Rap

Rip rap and some trees on the shore of Kent Island in early March.

7" by 10" Watercolor.

Three Wrenches

Sketch from the contents of Ca Ira's toolbox.

8" by 11" Graphite Sketch.

Art and Boat Projects

Last weekend, I came into possession of three sheets of FREE masonite, so I cut it up into useful painting sizes and glued strips of wood to the back like canvas stretcher frames to stiffen it up. Then I gessoed it. The picture above is the new painting surfaces drying in the boatshop (aka-- garage.) The transom of the boat in the background belongs to my GP 14. She's hanging from the ceiling right now, but I hope to get her down and fix the centerboard leak this spring.

I have been editing my blog. I decided that there was too much stuff on the side bar and it was detracting from my images. Also, I noticed that according to my Stat Counter, no one was actually leaving my blog by the blog links in the side bar. So I deleted most of the links, but kept a few and moved them up with the web links. I hope no one takes it personally that the link to their blog or page was removed.

My father's two whitehalls impatiently waiting to lauch!

The companionway hatch boards on my Pearson Triton, Ca Ira, have been too small for the companionway opening for a couple of years, since I tried to strip off old cracked varnish with the belt sander and took off a little too much. I'm too broke to buy new mahogany boards large enough to replace them, so I'm gluing strips of mahogany to the edges with epoxy. The photo above shows the top hatch board clamped and drying.

I only had two clamps long enough to clamp this project together, so my father had the bright idea of joining two smaller clamps together to span the distance, as the above photo shows.

Once the epoxy set, I unclamped the boards and started sawing and sanding to fit.

And that's my excuse for not having any new paintings to post!

Wrench

Wrench from my boat's tool box.

8" by 11" Sketch

Chester River from Kent Island

I painted this on Kent Island. I was looking out across the marsh at the Chester River shortly before sunset yesterday.

7" by 10" Watercolor

Cranberry Juice Bottle

7 1/2' by 11" Watercolor of an empty cranberry juice bottle.

St. Mary's in February

View of St. Mary's church across Spa Creek.

7" by 10" Watercolor