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This painting was done on the boat while sailing in the Bahamas in Winter 2025. This is based on a view in the Exumas.

On my trip last summer while hiking in the Cinque Terra region, I was able to grab some photos of this small Med harbor at Portofino, Italy. This was painted on our boat in the Bahamas in January.

We are back on the sailboat in Vero Beach Florida and was able to paint the first picture for this winter of a scene from our sailing adventures in the Bahamas last spring. This scene is based on the amazing turquoise and deep blue colors. The colors come from the depth of the water andContinue reading “Bahamas”

Just before we left France, I painted this picture from another scene in Montrossa, Italy that I had captured a few weeks earlier. It was way to wet to travel with so I left it with the Airbnb Host in France.

We spent a few days in Tours France where we spent one day biking along the Loire Valley and River and visiting chateau and castles. We stay right in the older section of town in a build over 1,000 years old. This painting is based on the one of old squares in the old partContinue reading “Tours, France”

This town has a very old bridge.

We stayed with another painter – artists from the UK near Ligardes, France. This painting is done from a road just a short distance from his house,

This part of France has these amazingly old tree with wonderful bark.

We move from the Pyrenees to the rolling farms fields to the north. Here the landscape looked like the farms painted by Van Gogh and others. The fields were a golden brown in the late fall.

We spent the night on a farm Airbnb and decided to paint directly from the drive of old historic farm house.