Baldwin, ME No. 101
Watercolor and Acrylic on Panel, 9in x 12in, 2025. $575 for the original, $50 Matted Prints are also available.
My brother and his wife just bought a house, and he was showing my the front room, right off the foyer. It's got a bookcase, some plants, and some paintings leaned up against the wall that they haven't had a chance to hang up yet.
My SIL has a great uncle who was a painter in New England, and she's acquired a few paintings from him, including a fishing village landscape called "Lobster Man."
"Sometimes," my brother says to me, "I like to pretend that Lobster Man is the guy who catches lobsters, and other times I like to pretend he's half man, half lobster."
My brother goes on to talk about the colors in the painting - there's a bunch of pthalo blues and greens - and I mention that if they paint the front room a light butter yellow, it'll make the painting pop.
"I've been trying to tell Carley that we should paint this room yellow!"
So we casually back out of the front room and into the hallway and raise our voices just a bit to have an enthusiastic conversation about how a yellow room will make the landscape look brighter and sunnier, but if they keep it cool and grey, it'll always be overcast and it will aggravate Lobster Man's seasonal depression.
Switching gears to *my* painting, it was the yellow in this room that really caught my eye. I loved how bright and sunny the room seemed because the walls in the real estate listing were such a bright yellow.
