Clouds Across the Bay (Looking across to Campobello)

It was fun parking along side the narrow road to Quoddy State Park, looking across the road where pink fireweed was prolific against the dreary fog and clouds beyond it. The scene looks across the bay to Campobello. To the left was Lubec, but that is a whole other painting. My friend did a little pastel from the back of the Jeep, while I sat on a rock painting in oil. We did not return during our week there, but it will definately be on my list for next year.

If you are interested in purchasing this little scene, please email me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com

It is 10 X 8 oil on panel.   SOLD!

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Evening at Tide Mill Farm

The evening light is simply awesome at Tide Mill Farm but it changes rapidly. The trick is to work fast. The more plein air painting I do the more able I am to capture the moment. This makes for a more impressionist painting, but to me, that is what it is all about. The moment, the mood, the lingering shadows, the softness of colors. It is about making you imagine that you are there or bringing forth a memory for you of such a time that you also spent an evening beside the tidal bay waters.

I have only just left there and already am eager to return and paint more. We had a grand time painting, exploring, visiting. What more could anyone ask?

If you are interested in this 10 X 8 oil on panel, please email me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com It is $169 framed or $149 unframed.

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In the afternoon as the clouds settled over Grand Manan, I noticed some great reflections in the waters from Sail Rock, reported to be the easternmost point of land in the United States. It looks like a little sail sticking up there, but depending on how high the tide is, it could be a submarine.
So I painted this little scene, fascinated by the length and strength of the island of Grand Manan which lies in the distance.
Tomorrow I will post a third study from this rocky perch.
If you are interested in purchasing this little 7X2.5 study in oil on mounted canvas for $39 unframed, please email me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com

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Quoddy Light House - East Side

On our second day at the Lubec Artists' Retreat, my friend Tammy and I went to Quoddy State Park. We had seen a photograph of the lighthouse taken from the east side and wanted to catch the morning light on it. So we asked the Park Ranger, who has a very delightful dry sense of humor, how to get down there. He told us of the path known only by a few but did not say we could not go there. However he did not think there was much space on the cliff rocks for a couple of artists to set up. His motto was "let responsible people be responsible". I love it!
We wallowed thru tall thick grass and bushes to scout it out, and quickly returned to the Jeep for our supplies. Tammy, who is also adventurous, ordinarily would have joined me on the cliff rocks below, but she is suffering with hip and leg problems, so she settled in up on the grassy top, where she did a very fine, detailed watercolor. I climbed down below with my paint box and beach chair and didn't move until lunchtime.


Well, the sun did not co-operate for lighting up the east side for us, but it finally came out a bit before noon. I was happy just to be there and get this neat angle of the lighthouse and the keeper's house (now a museum) and not have it raining for a change! The results are this tiny oil on canvas. 2.5" X 7". Too small really to frame without a mat but it is a nice one for a study. I do want to go back next year and do a larger one. Or perhaps this winter in studio and work from my photos and memory.


If you are interested in purchasing this little study for $39 unframed, please email me. melaniefarmer@gmail.com

Tommorrow I will post another painting I did while down there. It is looking out over the bay with Sail Rock and Grand Manan. What a magnificient view all around!

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Coos Canyon, Byron, Maine

In spring, the melting snow from the mountains fills the Western Maine streams with rushing water. Coos Canyon in Byron is a popluar place to go and watch the water rush over the rocks. This year, the heavy rains in June kept the waters high as it continues now. If you get a chance to go and have a picnic there, do it. It will be a wonderful memory. If you would like to purchase this painting to remind you of a special time there, please contact me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com. It is an oil on panel, 8X10. Just as my usual method, it is painted with a pallet knife.
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Evening Light on Bigelow Range

The first evening at Cathedral Pines Campground in Eustis, Maine, was warm and lovely. I wasted no time setting up my easel at the edge of the Dead River with part of the Bigelow Mountains in the background. The sun was setting low in behind me, creating a nice warm glow on the edge of the shore, the tree trunks and mountains. What a fabulous moment in time, a beaver swam by, a couple of ducks passed by looking for their supper and fish were jumping.

If you are interested in purchasing this lovely little nature scene, 8x6 oil on panel, please email me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com SOLD.

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Tyler Cove, Umbagog Lake, Upton, Maine

Upon a return visit to the little town where I grew up, I wanted to do some painting around the lake, where I have some fond memories. Not many, though, as we lived on the other side of town and didn't get to the lake very often. Hiking in for school picnics or late night family smelting parties are about the only reasons, as I recall, for going to Tyler Cove on Umbagog Lake. Better to have a few fun memories of a place rather than a lot that don't mean anything, I suppose.
Since the water was high with spring rains, which left little beach and few rocks to sit on, I had to prop myself up in the bushes. The black flies were fierce, so I worked fast and hiked back out to my jeep without much delay. I had hoped for a better light but settled for the overcast sky with the sun popping out just enough to tease.
If you are interested in purchasing this 8X6 oil on panel, please email me. melanie.farmer@gmail.com. It is $149 framed.
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Western Maine Mountain Range

Here is a painting I did from near the top of Ira Mountain in Kingfield, Maine. What breathtaking views all the way up and all the way down! I don't know all the mountains and bodies of water that I could see, but they are all put together in such a magnificent way.

If you are interested in purchasing this original 8 x 6 oil painting on panel, please email me at melanie.farmer@gmail.com. SOLD.

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