Happy Holidays

Oil Painting Upper Round Pond Road How it Happens

Find a spot you love

Living Room Shot

Living room shot, think we will definitely hide those legs.

Combine the spot you love, with your living room shots.  Find some bears on Google Images and lastly,
oil paint the entire piece.   

The Patience of Little Man

It all begins in the living room on a flimsy table, with a white sheet tacked to the wall.

Where will this shot take Rian, will he fly over a lost city, a countryside, or be chased by dragons? How many shots will we take?  Now we challenge Rian’s patience.  Rian look scared, look surprised, look happy, lean to the left, pull back...and so on.  Let us not forget the input of everyone else in the room also, he should look up, his eyes were closed, he blinked.  Throughout all 728 shots, 6 hours and of course, lunch Rian never wavered in his patience, humor or enthusiasm to continue.  Lets remember this is just to please his aunt and enable her photoshop hobby.

  The shots then travel from Maine to Massachusetts, where I look thru them, of course, discarding "his eyes were closed".  Now the fun begins, where will Rian travel to this time?  Rian always has a small glimmer of mischief in his eye, because that's who he is to me.  An impish, fun loving little boy, who is always ready for action!  This time, Rian finds finds himself flying thru the streets of Turkey stirring up mischief.

Officially pooped out.  I am so grateful and thankful he is my nephew and my
friend.  Rian has an enormous heart and the true patience of a saint.  We have a lot of fun,
I will always cherish these memories.  

Halloween Hollow

Should Have Gone Home

Halloween Night

Deep in the Meadow of Roots

Where Will They Go?

Don't Let Her In

Letting Go

On The Lake

Drowning

My Book of Imagination

Have Each Other

Brunswick Bridge

Excuse Me!!

My Backyard

Saved Her

Little Man

Floating Along

Sharing

Long Day

On My Way

Where We Go

Don't Poke the Sleeping Bear

New Ride

Late Night Working at Terri's

Should Have Stayed Home

Little Help from a Friend

Out with the boys

Backyard

Just Thinking

Little Man

Fireflies

Been A Long Day

Peaceful

Country Boy

Long Way Up

Out To Sea

The Small Room

Rian affectionately known as "Little Man" is growing up on the coast of Maine.   He lives with his Grandmother, Ruby on the Old Appleton Farm.  The farm is perched on a knoll, over looking gentle rolling fields.  There is always a breeze stirring in the east,  for Rian its a warning something is brewing and about to begin.

For Rian, life is overflowing with adventure, curiosity and mischief.  There is a small room off the end of the shed, that Rian over time, has slowly made his.  Through the broken windowpanes, he smells the fresh fields, and watches how they change.  It is there that he keeps all that he treasures, and goes each evening, to let his imagination whisk him away on a new adventure.