Fernandina Beach

This is my first completed oil painting and heck, if nothing else, I was proud I finished it. It's of the beach house we stayed for a week with our friends Robin, Michael and their pooch Libby. The log cabin beach house was a substitute, l must admit a rather less grand one, for the Grange on Cumberland Island. I'd painted one earlier oil with my distinguished painter friend Jack Hannula (President, Arts Club of Washington, DC) and he'd explained to me that the brush is at one end and the paint goes on the brush. 'But Jack' I said, 'how do you clean the brush'? His patience along with my other painter friend Chris Sherry have helped to free me up and understand oils a little.