Living in New England gives me plenty of opportunity to paint the wonderful scenery of seaside, seasons, vistas,architecture and the spirit of our quaint olde region. I have only limited formal training in oil painting, but I have been painting most of my adult life. Most of my training was in the area of color theory, and I paint a little differently because of that. I do not want my paintings to look like photographs, because to me, photographs look flat, even though they capture three dimensional images. A painterly approach sees certain colors as receding or coming...more