22″ x 22″
Acrylic on 140 lb. Archival Paper
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This piece is inspired from a picture I took while on vacation in Maine. The scene is of a harbor in Stonington which is located on Deer Isle. If you’ve never been there, I highly recommend it.
 
I’m keeping this post brief. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Today’s photo is fishing boats at New Bedford State Pier:

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Water colors

24″ x 20″
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15″ x 22″
Acrylic on Paper
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I’ve been working on my technique quite a bit lately. I’ve tried to refine my work and technique so that I can have more control of the outcome. It’s frustrating when I spend hours in the studio only to have a pile of rejects and tubes of wasted paint. My goal is to have more control and to work methodically, but yet with a sense of knowing where I’m going with the painting. I know that probably sounds like a standard for an artist, but for me it’s a challenge.
 
I think with my latest works, I learned a lot about tonal values and hard and soft edges. I will start to loosen up and get back to my slinging ways, but with absolute control of my paint and method.
 
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The Key River Area of Georgian Bay has some of the best big smallmouth & largemouth bass fishing to be had in all of Canada.

You can expect to take many largemouth around six pounds & smallmouth around the same size if you are there at the right time & the right place.

The largemouth are hard to find & locate as they will always be where warm water back bays can be found with deep holes nearby.

Coves sheltered from North winds facing South always seem to be the best place to find them.

All sheltered coves with deep warm water in them or close by hold largemouth in this area.

The bass are not legal in Canada until the end of June after they spawn.

Check the law on this before you go after them.

In early spring they all gather in warm shallow water areas way back in & up the rivers to the back bays where they spawn.

After spawning most scatter all over the area with the exception of a few that stay in these areas all year.

The best method is called ”Walking The Dog” With The  Zara Spook.

Also expect to catch a record in this area as a 13 pound largemouth was taken here & a 9 pound smallmouth out of season.

The big largemouth exceeds the Canadian record but was never turned in.

I saw a picture of this bass at Key Harbour Lodge years ago & I can tell you it was a big one.

The nine pound smallmouth was taken in 35 feet of water in Sand Bay near the Windmill Cottage on a crawdad but had to be released as it was not in season as yet.

I saw the picture & I can tell you that bass was huge.

My best smallmouth to date is 7 1/2 pounds caught on a Creek Chub Injured Minnow & a ten pound largemouth on a Zara Spook.

Big surface lures with spinners often produce a lot of big bass & big hits.

Toss them back in the pockets & ledges along the cliff or rock faces where the water is warm & 5 to 6 feet deep or more & that is where you will find most of them laying.

Each bass has its own little hole in Georgian Bay.

Please release them to fight another day.

The Key River Area of Georgian Bay has some of the best big smallmouth & largemouth bass fishing to be had in all of Canada.

You can expect to take many largemouth around six pounds & smallmouth around the same size if you are there at the right time & at the right place.

Both the Canadian record Largemouth Bass & Smallmouth Bass lurk in this area.

The largemouth are hard to find & locate as they will always be where warm water back bays can be found with deep holes nearby.

Coves sheltered from North winds facing South always seem to be the best place to find them.

All sheltered coves with deep warm water in them or close by hold largemouth in this area.

The bass are not legal in Canada until the end of June after they spawn.

Check the law on this before you go after them.

In early spring they all gather in warm shallow water areas way back in & up the rivers to the back bays where they spawn.

After spawning most scatter all over the area with the exception of a few that stay in these areas all year.

The best method is called ”Walking The Dog” With The  Zara Spook.

Big surface lures with spinners often produce a lot of big bass & big hits.

Toss them back in the pockets & ledges along the cliff or rock faces where the water is warm & 5 to 6 feet deep or more & that is where you will find most of them laying.

Each big bass has its own little hole in Georgian Bay.

Please release them to fight another day.

24″ x 20″
Acrylic on Canvas
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This is a scene from Portland, Maine. I took a few pics while on vacation this summer so I could do a few reference paintings later on. I must admit that I do enjoy working en plein air much better than doing studio pieces. There’s nothing like having the subject right in front of you. Having said that, the big advantage for me is that when I’m in the studio I can make better decisions about what to include and omit from the painting. I tend to get overwhelmed when I’m on site not really knowing what to include in the painting. I guess you could say there’s an art to that.
 
With practice I think I’ll become more aware of this when I’m outdoors thus creating more simplistic and better studies for future works.
 
That’s all for now. A special thanks to all of the followers and collectors who are supporting my art career. Have a great day.

15″ x 22″
Mixed Media on 140 lb. Archival Paper
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So this is a study painting for a larger acrylic painting that I’m going to start this weekend. It’s a scene I came up with using some reference photos and a bit of imagination.

I used some watercolor washes to start the painting letting the colors drift across the page without any concern for where that ended up. The idea was to come back later with some gouache to help contain the loose colors. I really enjoyed the freedom of this technique and have decided to make my mixed media paintings more of a study process for larger works which is something that I’m very interested in doing. I often paint on a smaller scale and have the desire to bump it up some in the future. Perhaps even moving into some oils.

That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Tuesday.

I have been looking for blogs concerning boating and camping. I realize this does not actually follow the theme of this blog, but I have to get out sometime!

Anyway, I like fishing and have been looking for a used fishing boat and also a used boat motor. The idea is to save money to spend on my fishing trips. After several weeks of looking, I found the perfect shallow water boat. The motor was shot, but everything else was in good shape. Paid about 1/3 of the cost of a new boat. Took it home and was able to get everything in good shape with very little work and $$$.

Next was the motor. This took a lot longer. Most of the ones I looked at were in rough shape. Then I located a 70 horse Johnson that only had about 100 hours on it. Got it for less than half the cost of a new one. It runs great!

My old fishing equipment was pretty much crap, so the next item was a fly fishing rod. I like an 8 foot rod because it seems to work well in the areas I normally fish. Again, I was able to locate on Craig’s List for almost nothing. And it was never used!

Will keep posting updates from time to time about good stuff to buy at very little cost.

by Richard Skylar
Executive Editor

The rest of the applause died when he dreamed of families returning to where there have been two people, including ones in North Korea.

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The road to a government and souvenir stores. The repairs got caught.

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11″ x 15″
Watercolor on 140 lb Archival Paper
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This scene was captured several weeks ago at the Marine Terminal in Downtown Newport News, Virginia. It was painted en plein air using a limited palette of watercolors. These fishing boats will be in port until March 2010 which is when the scallop season begins. The Government put a restriction on scalloping back in the early 90’s to help preserve the scallops. The boats also have a limit on how much they can catch and where they can fish. According to the fishermen, it has made a huge difference in the scallop population. The only complaint is the long layoff during the winter.
 
That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Thursday.

Comments welcome & appreciated !

11″ x 15″
Watercolor on 140 lb. Archival Paper
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This scene was captured en plein air in Newport News, Virginia at the Marine Terminal. The terminal is a home port for many scallop boat fleets, tug boats, crab and clam boats. It also is cluttered with fish houses and shipyards that seem to always have some hustle and bustle going on. This scene was painted several weeks ago on a very clear Fall afternoon.

11″ x 15″
Watercolor on 140 lb. Archival Paper
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Original digital painting of Asian fishing boats returning home to their small huts after a day’s work.

quiet solitude
returning home by water
another day’s work

– genece hamby, contemporary artist
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Here is what I shared this month for the CC. 

Mushroom

I shared several photos I took from Harry’s and my trip to Galilee.  I feel the following two are the best from what I took.

Fishing Boat

There was some suggestion that I crop this so it would be mostly the masts.  I tried it, but didn’t like it.  It didn’t feel right.

Untitled

Liz’s photography of the English seashore has been an inspiration.  Anyone know what this part of the dock is called?

On the northeast of the Island of Santa Catarina, where Florianópolis is located, there is a small beach called Praia do Forte, or Fortress Beach. It has this name because of the São José da Ponta Grossa Fortress, a fortification from the XVIIIth century built by the Portugueses on a hill just next to the beach.

The beach has a few restaurants and bars and is frequented by lots of tourists on summer season. It is also the place of a fishermen colony, so the fishing boats are part of the landscape.

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas

©Ricardo Ribas