Donna's New House

Talking about "surprise art", this is another example.  It is the house of friends in Florida, who had just done a major remodel.  Donna had mentioned to my wife that she might want a painting of their "new" home from the golf course side. But, we never spoke about it.

Since the corona virus left me with a lot of time on my hands, I decided to surprise her and do the painting as a surprise.  The neat thing is that, when I gave it to her and her husband, IT WAS HER BIRTHDAY!!  Fun!!

Kiskadee

In the previous post, I mentioned John, a golfing friend of mine.  He has been interested in my painting, and when I showed him the lobster boat, he also told me that he had a Hereshoff sail boat at his home in Marion, Mass.  This got us talking about sail boats as we had one also, at one time, and I had raced in another Hereshoff in Rhode Island when we were there.

I asked John if he had any photos of his boat, not telling him why I wanted it.  So, he sent it to me, with his daughter at the helm.  Since it was another "story", I deiced to paint it and surprise him with the painting.  This is it and he was very surprised. The boat is named the Kiskadee, after a bird in Bermuda.

Doing "surprise art" is so much fun!!

Lobster Boat

Painting the Edith-E, in the previous post, made me think about other old boats that might be interesting to paint.  So, I started looking for images and found this one, of an old lobster boat was also wasting away.  I then decided to do a series of these types of boats.

When I showed this to a golfing friend, John, he told me that he had worked on a similar boat when he was a young kid.  They would work all day, and get paid in cash as well as lobsters.  Another boat, another story!!

The Edith-E

This is the "Edith-E", a Monterey Cruiser, that is sitting in a field outside of Marin County, California, wasting away. We saw it as we were driving north of the San Francisco Bay to see a friend of my wife. Driving along, I noticed this boat at a marina and had to take a photograph of it.

Later on, I found that it is one of the most photographed things in that area.  The reason, and the reason that I painted it, is that there must be a story about her.  Now, she is falling apart.  Sad !!