"The Rose to Lobster Cove" was a painting I produced in an hour or so on one of the final evenings of my Monhegan Island, Maine Tim Horn workshop, September, 2012. What i love about this painting is that it is so loose and spontaneous. I like to come out with a painting that tells a story every time. This was a very late in the day effort. I had left some of my gear back at the Monhegan House, I cobbled together a way to prop up the canvas and get on with it before the light went. Some of the blue tape I used is still on the canvas [8x10], I had painted over it and only noticed when I varnished it. The rose is there on this great and new white fence and is a favorite sight with hikers on the dirt road [all the roads on the island are dirt - no cars at all permitted] on their way to see the Lobster Cove landmark coastline. The sun blasts through the trees that time of day and the rose gleams. Fast and loose and it's all there on the canvas board.
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