New England - Cape Cod 2 and Boston

This is a 2nd folder I have created

of all New England scenes. It includes two watercolors and two path pictures for you the viewer to walk through while "...making it in Massachusetts( taken from the state's motto)." Finally this 2nd New England folder of mine a unique Bostonian scene in front of one of this

citie's very famous museums: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Hyannis FishingBoat

2001 watercolor 29 x 37.25 inches $500

This is a watercolor painting I first started to paint in a Hyannis Marina in 2001. The sky I remember painting with a great deal of fun. Why ? Two inspirations. First it was one of my top ten all-time favorite painters/art heroes, Vincent Van Gogh and his amazing sky and cloud parts of fully alive landscapes. The difference, though, in my watercolor as opposed to his oil paintings of this uplifting theme is that my picture is leaning more towards a stormy sky, less colorful in this picture then his very colorful landscapes.

What I wanted to do is show my audience the drama of one of the hardest and dangerous professions: FisherMen. I reflect this especially in the dark, black and rusty fishingboat I painted in watercolor especially from later photographs. This fishingboat I painted looks ready for a stormy, rocky ride that definitely makes me and hopefully my viewers remember the great film about Hurricane Bob in the 1990's off Glouster, MA: "The Perfect Storm."

So this leads me to my second major inspiration: My audience behind where I painted this. While quickly painting that stormy, cloudy sky that summer afternoon in Hyannis, Cape Cod, I was filled with an adreniline rush the way some athletes have the same experience when making a game-winning accomplishment. For the first time in my art career I let my art audience see how much fun I had painting a sky before- a -rain -storm -could- happen.

Sandwich Beach, Cape Cod Bay

1995 oil 21.00 x 37.00 inches $400

For this oil painting, I painted on sight this path-to-beach picture as a great way to end long summer days of bussing tables at the sometimes very busy Daniel Webster Inn restaurant I mentioned about before in my other New England-Cape Cod folder. I allow my viewer to take a walk through lively beachgrass and soft rabbitgrass in all it's natural glory before beach- walking to a cool temperatured Cape Cod Bay. The Cape Cod Bay was refreshing to swim in but sometimes you could only take an in and out dip when the water was rather cold there.

Sandwich Boardwalk at The Public Beach, MA

2000 oil 31.00 x 49.00 inches Not For Sale

Shawme Pond in Winter

2004 watercolor 18.00 x 23.00 inches $300

Shawme Pond, Sandwich

2004 oil 18.00 x 34.00 inches $350

This is a oil painting I painted of Shawme Pond in Sandwich, Cape Cod based on a photograph I took there one summer in the 1990's. By painting this in an impressionist style, similar in a way to the American painter Charles Burchfield, I allow the viewer to feel and experience the enjoyable greens of the grass and weeping willows below a partly cloudy blue sky there. Above all I aimed to capture a very memorable painting for me to convey to my audience: this is the pond where when I was a child I saw public, ceremonial July Fourth fireworks for the first time from the top of boats passing by on this pond one July 4th night in either the late 1970's or early 1980's.

Windmill in Yarmouth, MA 2019 watercolor approx. 36 x 24 inches $500

U.S. Flag in front of Harwichport, MA House 2017 color pencil 28 x 22 inches $325

After having originally drawn this drawing in a summer HarwichPort, Cape Cod cottage I once stayed at several summers ago, I decided to draw it bigger in the above seen final image, version. My aim was for the viewer to experience what I did

patriotically when creating this in the living room of this house. By drawing it through the open front door "framed" by it's surrounding door frame and an arch in that living room, the viewer can experience in an interior firsthand the motto on the Massachusetts license plate: "The Spirit of America."

The Appeal To The Great Spirit Sculpture in front of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts 2018

34 x 28 inches acrylic $600

Maybe four summers ago I had the honor to visit with one of my sisters a Massachusetts major city: Boston. With my art-loving luck, we visited one afternoon there the Boston's MFA Museum. After having enjoyed their large art collection, with many masterpieces of Impressionism, including two tremendous Van Goghs I bought cards of at their gift shop, we left but not completely. We stopped in front of the museum and I photographed in all it's glory a native Utah sculptor's sculpture: "The Appeal to The Great Spirit." This highly dramatic sculpture of a Native American sitting on a horse with arms raised almost seeming to appeal not just to a Native American's Spirit but also for the viewer to look up to the clouds above and appreciate not just a beautiful Boston city in sunny summer daylight but the whole earth's excellent surroundings: the trees behind him, the silver and gold in sunlight colored museum behind too!

Finally, though, my main aim in painting the "Appeal to The Great Spirit" was to make an appeal, an appreciation for the little guy. By "little guy" I mean the other guy other than the more well known New England, Boston guy or the Patriot but I have made clear allready in my "Red, White, and Blue" coffee mugs still life on my "Still Lifes:Multi-Themes" page of this art website of mine that there's nothing wrong with having a patriotic democracy's dream. What I especially wanted to show in this above uplifting painting, though, was to show another side of the American democracy's dream: the primitive cool side via this inspirational Indian, Native American like my first art dealer in my hometown, Washington, DC once commented about me when in conversation with him in his former(now closed) gallery in Washington, DC: "You're primitive" or I'm sometimes "Primitive Paul.'' Can the viewer dig this?!