Places to stay on Monhegan Island, Maine...The "painters island"...

The Island Inn is great for couples & painters who want to "up scale" a bit..

The Monhegan Inn is where I live every painting season on this "painters island".  Painters are everywhere here and it's been a painters billet since it was built and is one of the oldest structures on the island.  Comfortable, clean and the beds are good.  Breakfast is great, and the talk everywhere from the easy rocking chair front poarch to the shower rooms is all painting.  That's why I' here! 

Gail's Studio....

Had a great time painting this bungalo painters studio deep in a southern California lemon orchard.  What a place to make fine art every day.  No wonder her paintings are great!! 

6"x8"  "Studio in the Grove"

Off to the Santa Paula Hot Air Balloon Festival this Saturday!

The Hot Air Balloon Event has what they call a "glow" event Friday evening with great food, and a chance to drift up in a teathered balloon.  Bring your camera!  The sketch painting is the Inn I would have liked to stay at, The Santa Paula Inn right in the heart of town and so close to those great breakfasts at Rabalais Cafe - but - as usual - sold out!  Check it out, as well as the Glenn Tavern Inn on line.  Great prices and neat places.

Cape Cod home base...The Candleberry Inn

Painting Cape Cod has been a journey painters have made forever.  Most summertimes I head for the Cape for a week or so, then on to Maine and Monhegan Island.  This is my "home base" when I am on Cape Cod.  Quiet.  Comfortable.  Classic & historic.  I discovered it when the prettiest girl in the 7th grade in my Jr. High school bought it with her husband many summers ago.  She sold it to a fantastic innkeeper couple who have picked up the remodel where Ginny left off.    Great rooms, sleep-forever beds and breakfasts that are wonderful.  Located in the center of the Cape in Brewster - you can get to anyplace from here.  Check it out at www.CandleberryInn.com 

The most recommended books by plein-air pro-painter workshop artists..

These 2 books are without doubt the two most highly & always recommended books to "brush-up on" before any workshop.  Thanks to plein air painter Tim Horn for reminding me.  You might want to add them to your art bookshelf.   "Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color" by Kevin MacPherson. It's about $24 a on Amazon $ @ some book and art stores. Also Mitchell Albala's "LandscapPainting", http://www.mitchalbala.com/book/index.html