I added some color into my recent sketch of lunch up in East Boothbay Harbor at The Lobster Dock as I continue to explore this painting idea. Though our trips there were over a decade ago, I can remember exactly what the day felt like, the temperature, the still, humid air, the mixed scents of salt water and lobster boiling, and the shimmer over the harbor as we waited for lunch. I'm enjoying exploring the past, and have learned a few things for when I make this into an oil painting. I would make a few shifts so that the umbrella seems to be casting more of a shadow below it... to convey more of the need for the shelter it created.
I'll keep you posted as I continue to explore. Thanks for looking.
This is the first design sketch for a painting I'm contemplating. We spent a week in South Bristol, ME at a friend's family cottage for a few Junes in a row, sharing the house with friends and their son, a year+ younger than our daughter. It was a great house, on its own cove. We would kayak, play games, clam, cook, hunt fireflies, read books, build caves from blankets and furniture.... such a great place. And, we would spend one of our days in Boothbay Harbor, parking across the Harbor, lunching at the Lobster Dock, then walking across on the footbridge. I have always loved the photograph of our daughter I used as inspiration for this drawing. I'm going to work this into a painting. Details to follow.
