From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Monhegan in June

by C.Kidder on March 27, 2010

I picked up the phone this week and made a reservation to go back to Monhegan Island and stay at the Island Inn  for a few days in in June. .. I needed to have a plan.  I’ll be there when  the Inn reopens for the season so  I’m hoping that I’ll be ahead of the tourists that  [...]

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Welcoming Spring in Newburyport

by C.Kidder on March 21, 2010

 
 oil pastel  9×12    Crane Beach…”Stopping”
  This is one of  my paintings that is hanging at Valeries Gallery in Newburyport. It is a 9×12 oil pastel framed with a 3 in. black and gold frame. Love the way it looks hanging on the rustic brick wall at the Gallery.  Fun to see so many people  “out and about” yesterday…lots [...]

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Finding Sunshine

by C.Kidder on March 15, 2010

It wasn’t the best day to take a drive to Newburyport but it was worth the trip. I had an appointment with the owner of  Valeries Gallery to show her some of my paintings . It was pouring when I got there and I “literally blew in the door” holding my portfolio tightly so it wouldn’t get [...]

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In the Clouds

by C.Kidder on March 13, 2010

 I love to paint the sky on cloudy days.  The mood changes minute by minute and it is  always a challenge to capture the feeling.
The past couple of days the cloud formations have been especially interesting.  At one point as I was driving early in the morning they looked like huge waves on the horizon.   I [...]

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Search for Color

by C.Kidder on March 5, 2010

It was fun seeing a couple of  my photos posted on Kate Spade’s wall  in N.Y.C.   I submitted the “Fresh eggs” picture (third photo down on left hand side) and also an image of  an oil pastel painting that I did  called “Swaying trees” (bottom row on right side) for a contest called “Pop of Color”   posted on Facebook.  After this long [...]

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Sunny Side Up

by C.Kidder on March 4, 2010

My neighbor Kristie left a dozen fresh eggs from her chickens in my mailbox today…such a treat!
It was perfect timing for me to find them because I was “home alone” tonight for dinner …which doesn’t happen often.  So I fried  a couple of eggs, made some wheat toast with jam and then happily sat in [...]

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Preview of Spring

by C.Kidder on March 2, 2010

 
My neighbor Andrea who is an impressive landscape designer cut these branches of  forsythia from one of  her bushes to bring to me so that I could have a preview of Spring .
Their sunny color in our kitchen has given me hope after a very long couple of weeks of winter weather and damaging wind [...]

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