More paintings from the 5"x7"seascape series.

Hi, If you like the seascape paintings, perhaps you would like to own one. I take reservations for these 5"x7" seascapes, so to reserve one send me an email @paulbrahms11@me.com and i'll send you more info. The price is $175.

When my son was a little more than a year old, he came into my studio and immediately put his beautiful little hand into my palette of oil paint. Cleaning his delicate hands wasn't an easy task, on many levels. So I put away the oil paint and have been painting in acrylic for 5 years. Now I realize there are some things that you can't do with acrylic, and have brought out the oil paint again. I attempted a self portrait sketch in oil this morning. Oil is to acrylic what cotton is to polyester. Or what  Roosevelt's new deal was compared to the modern day stimulus packages.

Here are some still life paintings, in part inspired by Taryn Day's terrific work seen here at her blog, "Awake and painting" , check it out!. She is also a fabulous portrait artist. The red onions are painted on a hardware store paint color chip, a new medium i've been exploring. I'm trying to generate some revenue to realize my materialistic dreams ( a trip? A BMW cabriole ? more paint?) so I am putting these up on etsy for purchase along with others seen here on the blog. link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PaulHBrahms11

Another painting of a highway.  Maybe these images have something to do with the fact that my car inspection has run out, and i'm sorry to say it probably won't pass. Looks like it's the virtual highway for a while. I suppose I could take a bus? Reduce the carbon footprint and all of that. 

Must be wanting a change of scenery. The highway is calling me.

The cottages around here were once like this, modest scale, 1 1/2 stories, w a wrap around porch. Usually built from whatever salvage lumber the builders could get their hands on. I lived in one once on  Higgins beach that had walls built from shoe crates used to ship shoes made in Lewiston factories and for train transport. This one always appeals to me because of it's warm colors.

It seems like a lot of my work ends up kind of flat, mostly horizontal and vertical lines, and right angles. Maybe I'll try to work on a painting with curves and diagonals?