"Newfoundland" by Carrie Jacobson

My final painting in Newfoundland - Port-Aux-Basques. I’m glad to be heading home, though sad to be leaving such an amazing place.

"Newfoundland" by Carrie Jacobson

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Tors Cove

 Tors Cove - sold

30" x 40" oil on canvas

This painting recently sold and was one of my favourites.  I love creating wooden boats and the water surface they sit on.  I'm currently in the process of painting a series of 30" x 40" wooden boat paintings but can't share much of them until my solo exhibition opens in the spring.

But I will be sharing peeks at progress during the series and am ready to put painting number six on the easel this week.  Finding time to fit in teaching classes and workshops, a day job and this project is pushing the limits but always fun.

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Work in progress - The Winningest Punt

The Winningest Punt

22" x 28"  oil on panel

I spent Saturday at the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador, starting work on a boat painting.  I didn't get a lot done at the museum as I spent time talking to people who were coming through and letting them play with a few strokes of the knife on the painting.

I've  put a few more hours in on the painting since Saturday, but need to let it dry a little before adding some final details. I usually work wet in wet with all my palette knife pieces, but the layers were getting thick in places and I wanted a bit more precision so will let the paint skin over before adding more.

I asked for references of wooden boats to be sent to me as potential subjects to be painted at the museum and chose this punt by Mark Hiscock. This punt is called the winningest punt, because of its ability to capture first place in punt races at Fogo Island over the last four years.  Mark will receive a fine art reproduction of the finished painting for allowing me to use his image to paint.  The background of houses and above that (not seen) a rock face, is The Battery at St. John's harbour.  It still looks very much like the original fishing village it was, despite being smack dab in the city.  Its one of the city's treasures and I hope it never changes.

Of course with the glare of light off the oil paint, its near impossible to get a decent photo of the painting in its current stage.  Photographing paintings is my least favourite part of art.  Well not so much the photographing, more the editing!  However, here's a crop of the piece at its current stage.  I'll post the final image when its complete, hopefully sometime this week.

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