Marc Clamage

Fine arts, landscapes, and portraits- Boston,MA

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Rich Oil on canvas, from life

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Charlene

Female nude figure drawing at Pawtucket Arts Collective, 2020.

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Even More Skies

This is it.

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Jamestown

I did a fair amount of painting down in Jamestown, Rhode Island last year. Particularly taken with the views in Wetherill State Park.

West Cove I

West Cove II

Fort Wetherill

The Pell Bridge from Newport

The Pell Bridge from Jamestown

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More Skies

More sky paintings from last year.

I’ve got more but I’m getting bored uploading them. On to something else…

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Skies

I did a little series of late afternoon paintings of the western sky last year.For the most part, they’re 2″ x 4″.

More tomorrow.

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West Beach, Stamford 2019.

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Laurie

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Woops

Wow, I let another year–more than a year–go by without posting on this site. Silly me.

Picking up where I left off in 2019, here are some watercolors…

Caracal (Caracal caracal)

Two Views of a Human Skull (Home Sapiens)

Fenway Park Night Game

Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster)

Minute Fruit Bat (Cynopterus minutus)

Greater and Lesser Short-Nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus…

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Nicole

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First painting of 2019.

Sparrows First painting of 2019.

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Stuff from 2018 that didn’t get posted:

Wickford

There are Cows in Attleboro!

Mowry Reservation

Sara’s Garden

The Taunton River in Dighton

Ivy

Wareham

Charles River at the Newton-Needham Line

Duck Skull

Bruce

Last of 2018 Stuff from 2018 that didn't get posted:

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The View from Watson’s Farm, Jamestown, RI

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Random Musing No. 1

Random Musing No. 1

The human eye has a range of 20°, mostly peripheral vision, compared to the camera’s typical 45 or more. That is why the figures sometimes seem distorted at the edges of a photograph. We make up for this seeming deficit by moving our focus (in movements called “saccades”) around a scene to build up a gestalt awareness of its appearance.   A painting, curated by human intelligence, is superior in…

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The Artist's Nightmare

The Artist’s Nightmare

I have a recurring dream–a nightmare, really–in which I am off on a painting trip in some beauty spot and for, one reason or another, I never get around to actually doing any painting. It’s not hard to interpret, equal parts longing and guilt, but last night’s was a doozy.   I was off on a trip with my friend Ross and I could see a beautiful ocean view in the distance. Ross got out his paints and…

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Foxborough edition. Oil on unstretched canvas.

“The Forest Primeval” Foxborough edition. Oil on unstretched canvas.

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Back from my daughter’s wedding in Maine! One of the benefits of being a helpless male is that during the preparations for important events like this you are actually in the way and so are encouraged to take off and do your own thing. My wife insisted I go off and do these paintings! I know better than to ignore a direct order from my wife.

This is a painting of Ripley Creek, at a little bend in the road in Tenants Harbor.

It’s directly opposite my wife’s favorite view, which I painted in 1998:

The second, done the day after the wedding, is a view of the Camden Hills from Rte 133.

I love the Camden Hills and my original intention, when my wife suggested I bring my paints, was to redo one of the views I had painted more than 20 years ago, in 1996 and 1997.  I was very disappointed to find that the views I had painted years earlier were now marred by new construction and ticky tacky, but I did manage to find this almost untrammeled view.

Here are the 1996/1997 paintings:

  Maine Paintings Back from my daughter's wedding in Maine! One of the benefits of being a helpless male is that during the preparations for important events like this you are actually in the way and so are encouraged to take off and do your own thing.