Here’s a selection of Nocturne paintings that I painted in early 2017. The one above is one of my favorites. It amazed me that halfway through that painting the big dipper started rising behind the church. I didn’t get a chance to take a great photo of this before it sold at the Castine Plein Air Festival, but I plan to make an enlargement this winter and offer it as a print.
This one above was a great spot,in South Thomaston,Maine, and happily the light changed near the end of my session and lit up the water in the foreground, which really made the painting.
The church here was converted by the local Farnsworth Art Museum into the Wyeth Center, where of course you will find lots of work by the generations of the Wyeth family of painters.
I did this piece as a speculative commission. I met someone who wanted a painting of this building by night. They ended up not wanting it, but I ended up selling it through my local gallery.
There is a wonderful harbor in Wiscasset, Maine for nocturnes. This is the second painting I did of this area, although they were a year apart.
This painting is actually from 2016, and done at the Cape Ann Plein Air Event in 2016. The whole Cape Ann area in Massachusetts is an incredible area to sketch.
If you would like to see more, I have some more recent night paintings posted at this blog post here.
Of course I also sell my work. If your interested in supporting my efforts, you can take a look at my store here. Or contact me about any other painting of mine your interested in.
Stephan Giannini 