“Thomaston Harbor”

“Thomaston Harbor”,
by Robert Leedy, 2004,
watercolor on paper
11 1/2″ x 16 3/4″

This was my second visit to Thomaston Harbor and my second watercolor workshop I attended with David Dewey in August 2004.

As I hung the Alliance Française show in Denver, I suddenly realized that boats are a major theme in my work. I was a little taken aback by this and not so thrilled to see such repetition. But I guess the fact that I grew up in Florida near the ocean and the St. John’s River is why they are so prevalent in my paintings. I have always loved boating and one day hope to sail around the world – on someone else’s boat, of course !

I chose a simple subject matter for this painting and painted it with a limited palette. But there is a lot of vibration with the lights and darks and, as David Dewey says, it has my signature all over it…

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Published:: August 4, 2004 / 5:20 pm

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“If I’m not painting, I’m typing.”

I began writing to combat creative block. It worked. What started as morning journals later developed into a secondary means of self-expression. Most of these selected writings were inspired by some event (usually humorous) during our travels abroad. Most are taken from emails I sent out frequently to a small audience (or, “fan base”, as I like to think.) These were not intended to be “serious” works; most were intended as a sort of log of our “adventures” and a means of keeping up with friends and family.

Many of these entries fall off the WordPress map as they go back a little further in time. I posted them with their original dates when I re-posted to WordPress, so they will not all show up in the archives’ listings but if you browse the categories, they are linkable by topic.

You may wonder about the frequent reference to the name, ‘Griswald’; this is the name Vicky & I jokingly gave ourselves as sort of ambassadors representing the notion of bumbling, culturally devoid, fashionly clueless, Americans in a foreign country.

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