Paintings from the Cape Vincent NY area

Hi, I have been absent from publishing new posts for all of 2017. It is a life changing event when your spouse passes away unexpecedly and in the middle of the night at home. All of a sudden one person has to do what two once did. Then there is the added tasks of probate, monument  decisions, etc. So my time devoted to painting activities has diminished, but hopefully will increase this year. There are still a number of paintings I did last May in England, prior to the sad event, which I have not gotten around to mounting to masonite boards, photographing and framing. These will appear sometime this year on my other blog. To top it off Windows 10 (disastor) through sucessive updates destroyed my access to photoshop 3 so I had to upgrade to photoshop 6. The links between the thumnails and the actual photos are about 70 % gone and this requires hours of browsing to reconnect. Then there is the learnig process for the version 6. I was doing this post on Saturday and having difficulty finding the photos so in exasperation move, delayed it to today, Sunday.


Here are three paintngs I did last year in the Cape Vincent  area of the 1000 Islands.

Cape Winery
This was a plein air painting in early May before the apple blossums were out. During lunch acommpanied with wine  at some out door tables the owner mentioned how beautiful the tree was when the blossoms were on. Later he brought me a photo which I used to add the blossoms  to the painting in the studio

Cape Vincent Sidewalk Sales Days.
I was supposed to be on duty at the Breakwater Gallery across the street from this scene. Someone else offered to tend the Gallery while I painted en plein air in hopes of drawing attention to the crowds and directing them to the Gallery. Some street musicions where  playing  in the tabled area and I was enjoying the classical music drifting across  the street.

Tranquility.
Painted on  private property which has three ponds, a log cabin for gathering in our winter paintouts, and located prior to Cape Vincent. Our group, "Plein Air Painters Thousand Island Region", which i formed in 2009 paints on the property often.

Well, with a fresh mind today I was able to recall an easy way to search and locate the photos.!