Dear Friends and Family,

This summer we combined a quick college tour for Bella, with visits with good friends and cousins in Maine and Cape Cod.  Flying from Paris to Montreal, we stopped at McGill University, then travelled down through New York State, stopping at other schools.  After dropping Bella and Sam off at their respective summer programs, Caryn and I spent a week in Brunswick, Maine.

The population in Maine is about one million, but in the summer it triples.  Even so, I found myself alone at Maquoit Bay, near the town of Brunswick.  I was able to make these two plein air sketches on this beautiful bay.

MAQUOIT BAY
©2014 Felice Panaggrosso
Oil on Panel
8 x 10 inches

MAQUOIT BAY II
©2014 Felice Panagrosso
Oil on Panel
10 x 8 inches

Later in the week I visited Wolfe’s Neck State Park, in Freeport, Maine.  A fantastic landscape of rocks, sea, islands and forest.

WOLFE’S NECK STATE PARK
©2014 Felice Panagrosso
Oil on Panel
8 x 10 inches

I came across this building on the way to Wolf’s Neck Park.  I don’t know whether it’s a private house or business, abandoned or not, but I found a path to a small island with a good vantage point, where I spent the next couple of hours making this sketch.

HOUSE IN MAINE
©2014 Felice Panagrosso
Oil on Canvas
10 x 8 inches

More next month…

Felice