Sunday Sketchbook: The Caribbean

On Tuesday I'll be leaving for my second trip to the Caribbean (the first was to Bequia, pictured here) this time to teach and paint for a week on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. I'm looking forward to starting a new series of Travelogue studies--check your mailbox for daily posts, if you're a subscriber!

Memory: Morning View from Moonhole

Here's another painting from my trip to Bequia, on another balmy morning looking out towards a fishing village and the island's tiny airstrip.

Memory: Cliff from Moonhole, Bequia

I painted this during a winter trip to the Grenadines a few years ago. Seeing it again brings back the feel of breezes and sun on the terrace where I stood at my easel high above the ocean, and is a nice antidote to the cold, rainy morning outside my studio today.

Sunday Sketchbook: Puerto Rico

I wrote at the bottom of this page: "I wasn't planning on being here now, but instead of a nice evening exploring St. Vincent on the way to Bequia, the four of us are crammed into a crummy motel room next to the San Juan airport." No matter where an airline strands you, if you have a sketchbook you can always stay (almost) sane.

Memory: Moonhole Beach, Bequia

Every now and then during our frozen white winter I look at paintings from my visit a few years back to this beautiful island, and hope I have another chance sometime soon to be painting cerulean blue water in the middle of January.

Sunday Sketchbook: Bequia

Right now from the window of my Marshfield, Vermont studio it looks like I'm in the middle of a snow globe blizzard. So here's a memory from a few winters back of a sunny sailboat deck in the middle of the blue Caribbean.