Spectacle Island

Oil on Linen wrapped canvas
11" x 14"
2024

What a day of painting! In the morning of awarm September day, a painter friend and I ventured to Schoodic, painting for several hours on the granite at the tip of Schoodic Point- then, after cheese and cucumber sandwiches eaten on the rocks as we considered our paintings, we stopped on the way home for afternoon painting at the public access dead end on Grindstone Neck in Winter Harbor- I was stunned by the spot; pink granite, smoothed flat by the sea rolling small round rocks over a millennium, spread out like a redimade studio floor- in multiple directions small islands and beyond them, the mountains of Acadia rose across Frenchman Bay! The tide was coming in by then, and we painted (at a distance from one another of course) until the rising water began to draw attention only 10 feet away.

In the early stages a red lobster boat plied her traps near Spectacle Island, as she finished her hauling for the day.

What a painting spot! I will be back.