Studio Tuesday Blog

Just back from a trip to Maine, where we stayed on Hog Island and helped get the Audubon Camp ready for summer. It was a fun week, filled with lots of rain and fog.We made one boat trip out to Eastern Egg Rock to see the puffins and drop off supplies and such for the research interns. It was a pretty cold and rainy boat trip, but very beautiful driving past the foggy islands and coast. Above, on the way out to Eastern Egg Rock we passed this lobster boat fishing on the bay. Arriving at Eastern Egg Rock, a puffin in the water. Happy I got to see puffins in the wild again. They are much cuter in person and I'm continually surprised how small they are.Idling on the boat while others row supplies and research interns over to the island in choppy water and rain. A puffin on the rocks and two guillemots over to the right. Eastern Egg Rock is a small island and this is pretty much all there is to it. Rocks and grass and nesting seabirds. Below a few snaps from around Hog Island.On a hike around the island, we found these little hermit crabs in periwinkle shells.

Just a few photos from a Maine trip. These are in Port Clyde, a little town on the coast with a general store and ferry port. One of my favorite places to stop, eat lunch, and watch all the fishing boats at work.Top image: Behind the general store, a quaint clawfoot tub, full of lobsters and shellfish.  Down the road a little bit is the lighthouse (Marshall Point Lighthouse). Above, the lightkeeper's house on a gray foggy morning. Below, exploring the tideline and little pools, a rock covered in little barnacles and periwinkles.Marshall Point Lighthouse

A new watercolor and ink illustration of a little boathouse on Vinalhaven island off the coast of Maine. We saw this charming little boathouse on a morning ferry ride out to the island. I loved the little fish weathervane and the stilts to accommodate the large tide shifts of the area.   'Vinalhaven Boathouse'11x14 illustration - watercolor and India ink Below, a couple photos from our ferry trip over to the island, which included some very dense patches of fog. Above, fog and little spits of land and pines as we approached the island. Below, a sea of lobster buoys as we got close to the Vinalhaven harbor, there is quite a large lobster fishing community on the island.You can find prints of this illustration in my shop. Link below!Vinalhaven Maine Art Print