Maine Sketchbooks

Throughout my school years I was encouraged by many fine art teachers. But the dads in my neighborhood wore suits and carried briefcases on their way to work. None of them were heading to the studio. Years later, I pursued a career as an engineer.

The term "Sunday painter"  describes an earnest, unschooled painter. For years I was an "August painter": every August on our family vacation to Maine, I would unpack the watercolor set, paint in every spare moment, and pack things up until the next August. Painting absorbed me. From time to time, a fine painting would result. 

​Thousands of American painters have worked in Maine. ​There's no part of the American coast like it.