Eileen’s paintings – Oil paintings, acrylics, watercolors
Yesterday, I found a quotation that made me feel much better: “I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes… This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away… what a rage I was in!”…
This painting has a quirky history. It began when a commission wasn’t going well. When the commissioned painting was completed, a lot of paint remained on my palette. Most of it was blue. So, I took another in-progress painting off the wall – one that needed a lot more blue – and I worked on…
This salt marsh in Maine has been a favorite subject for my plein air paintings for years. The location is in Kennebunkport, Maine, across the street from the Bush compound. I started painting at this location as part of my “look the other way” series. For that series, I chose subjects that are a 180-degree…
This is an oil painting from my years (1998 – 2002) in Nashua, New Hampshire. The pond is at Royal Crest, and it is magnificent all year ’round, but especially during the fall foliage season. I painted this over a series of afternoons, en plein air (meaning: outdoors, on location). It’s one of my favorite…
England’s Glastonbury Tor is a mystical place. Its legends include fantastic Arthurian lore and unique Christian history. In this painting, I wanted to capture the exhilarating freshness of Glastonbury in the spring. The scene is the Tor late in May when the flowers are in bloom and the grass is a vivid, new green. This…