As part of a Europe Trip in September and October of 2024, I took two weeks to rent a car and travel around Southern France to paint the mountains and country side. These next set of paintings were done in the last few weeks of October 2024. I had to purchase a new set of paints, brushes and easel locally for this painting. Due to the slower drying time of the paints, I left some of the paintings with the hotels and Airbnb hosts.

This painting is based on a older house in the old town of New Plymouth. It is located on the island of Green Turtle Cay. We stopped in here while sailing back north after visiting the Exumas islands.

The palette in my pochade box has become a beautiful painting itself. I haven’t had time or the place to do a clear wipe of my palette in my box for a few months now and the paints have dried forcing me to continually add new paints and find free areas to mix and test paints and colors before committing to the canvas.

We have been sailing around the Exumas for a few weeks and this painting is based on a hike near Cambridge Cay, Bahamas.

We spent 3 days at Man-o-war island with a few visits to this town. The town is famous for boat building and this old boat was in one of the boat builder yards.

We spent two nights around Hope Town, Bahamas. This tiny island town has a unique old school light house that I painted.

Here is the second sail boat that we have been sailing with for several days now. This is based on a view of the boat outside of Manjack Cay, Bahamas.

For a few days, we had the pleasure of sailing and adventuring with two other sailboats and their crews. One was a 37 foot schooner and a 30 Cape Dory.

I was able to paint each of them a picture of their boat and give it to them to enjoy. Here is the Bear Island Schooner painting.

We have stayed at this wonderful island called Manjack Cay in the Bahamas for over a week. It is filled with some trails and options to snorkel in the Atlantic ocean reef and offers good protection for most winds.

This is a painting of Alicia walking on this 1.5 mile beach and there is not another soul on the beach besides us.

The water is a wonderful blue green color and next to a white sand beach.

This was painted on our boat.

While sailing in the Bahamas, our first stop for a few days was Grand Cay, a most northernly island of the Bahamas chain of islands. This is a view looking from the dock toward the tiny downtown area of a few restaurants and houses that rent and the public dock.