Kingfield Farm at Sunset

Today it is chilly, just below freezing, so I went to the basement to light a fire in the old Ashley there. It helps to keep the house an even heat. I had to go thru my studio to get the wood. My! what chaos! How did it get so bad so quickly. Even with the mess, it looked good to me and gives me the urge to get back at it again. Especially these cold days when I have to have a fire as that is my only heat in the studio and it becomes warm and cozy. I am inspired to paint scenes that I grew up with only now am seeing them in a new way. I need to get them on canvas.
Here is one I did a month or so ago. It's a lovely little farm in Kingfield, on the outskirts of Sugarloaf, which can be seen in the sunset. Sorry folks, this one has been sold. This was one of my Painting a Day before my haitus. Melanie Farmer paintings are internationally copyrighted. Do not reproduce without permission.

Cobscook Bay State Park

After spending the weekend in Portland with my friend who is recovering from his recent hip replacement, it's good to get home, however, not in time to get any painting done. Right now I am focusing on marketing and that is a very necessary thing too.
Here is one that I did this year while camping at Cobscook Bay State Park, downeast Maine.
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A Painting a Day - Laurie's Lupine

SOLD

This is how I spent my evening, rather than painting, so here is a painting from this summer when the lupines were in bloom. They are colorful and fill whole fields here in Maine. There was a "Lupine Lady" about mid-1900's who spread the seeds wherever she went. She has beautified our state in her own way. Her legacy now blooms on artist's canvases all over the state and graces homes everywhere.

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