At Home in Wilmington: May 2025

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Two Homes?

I often drive by this yellow building, maybe a residence, and I’m curious about it. It seems out of place where it is, and probably because of the color, it seems a tad French. The picture of the lovely home with the wisteria in front was taken in the colorful month of April, when Wilmington and many other places are at their showiest.

Monday, May 26, 2025

Painting

Because I must have something “to sink my teeth into” during the next decade, I must paint. My art friends enjoy plein air, being outside and painting what they see in front of them. Others paint from photos that they have taken. Some artists painfully reproduce the subject and others give artistic license to their paintings. I wish I could do either and am trying, but I can’t help but stray. Though I am moving into oils, yesterday I felt the lure of acrylics that I attempted to tame in recent years. The process has been: I paint on the canvas. Then I evaluate. Then I cover it with another layer of paint and then another. Eventually most canvasses end up in the garbage. I may keep these. The paints in both were three blues, a white, and a deep yellow, and the canvasses were well textured! I don’t plan. A frenzy overtakes me, and in a few minutes, something satisfying emerges. The rectangle I have named Into the swamp. The square one is Along the Trail. A name helps the viewer make sense of a painting. The iPhone is not exact in representing color

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Beautiful Church

Driving today on a country road and spotted a gold dome atop a lovely well preserved little church. On the way back, I was fortunate to stop and get a pic or two. Russian Orthodox. Right in the middle of corn fields and farm lands!