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Category Archives: Night Paintings

Foggy Night, Rockland, Maine,12 x 16 in., $700

Foggy Night,Rockland, Maine,12 x 16 in.
Posted byStephan GianniniAugust 22, 2020August 21, 2020Posted inAll, Available, Night PaintingsLeave a comment on Foggy Night, Rockland, Maine,12 x 16 in., $700

Quiet Night, Camden, 12 x 16, $700

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Posted byStephan GianniniAugust 21, 2020August 22, 2020Posted inAll, Available, Night PaintingsLeave a comment on Quiet Night, Camden, 12 x 16, $700

Night Walker, 10 x 22 in., oil – $750

Posted byStephan GianniniAugust 2, 2020August 3, 2020Posted inAll, Available, Landscapes, Night PaintingsLeave a comment on Night Walker, 10 x 22 in., oil – $750

Foggy Harbor, Rockland, 9 x 10” (sold)

Posted byStephan GianniniAugust 1, 2020August 3, 2020Posted inAll, Available, Landscapes, Night PaintingsLeave a comment on Foggy Harbor, Rockland, 9 x 10” (sold)

Night Puddles, 9 x 10”- $325

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Electric Nocturn, 9 x 10” – $350

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This is in Kampot, Cambodia. Another one from my Southeast Asia painting trip in 2010. An old French colonial building. While I was painting this, a young woman, an American who was living in Switzerland, on vacation in Cambodia,  came up to me, and later that night we went out on a date. Lots of single travelers looking for love on the banana pancake trail, as they called the Southeast Asia backpacking route. I think she truly liked my painting, but I realized later her purpose was probably to get a nice free meal. Well, it’s nice to be wanted anyway. Last I ever saw her, she didn’t like her job as an English to French translator, and I always wondered what became of her. 6 x 7”, oil on prepared cardstock.#pleinairpainting #cambodia #kampot#dating
Kampot, Cambodia, 2010. I stopped in Kampot, which is in the south of Cambodia for a week on my way up to Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat. This is an old French colonial prison, and while it looked quite rundown, apparently it is still being used in the present day. I could not find much information about this prison, but I was told that it was a place of horror when the Khmer Rouge were in power.
Two drawings I did on location in Thailand in 2010. The Buddha was in Sukhothai, the market scene in Thewet, Bangkok. In Bangkok I found a quiet corner behind some pillars to draw, and I think hardly anybody noticed me, or at least they didn’t say anything. The smell was horrendous, as I recall. Years of rotting meat and vegetables on the stone streets. But the hustle and bustle of it was so exciting. Both 9 x 12” or 24 x 30 cm. Colored pencil and white chalk. #drawings#buddha#bangkok#sukothai #streetmarket
The final one from near Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I loved this little fishing village, and I painted several views here. This day, I had packed a lunch, which I left in the bag on the ground, and a bunch of little kids came by and quickly started rifling through all my things and grabbed my food. They also grabbed some paints and brushes, which were basically irreplaceable, in that place, (I would’ve had to go back to Bangkok or Saigon). I managed to get the art supplies back, but the food was a loss. I yelled at them, and insisted that they share it equally. I’m sure they were hungrier than this rich westerner. Because it’s funny, my financial position is quite modest where I live, but in Southeast Asia I was wealthy. I probably spent $1000 in the month I was in Cambodia, which was literally 15 or 20 times the average monthly wage of most Cambodians. I know this because while I was there there was a strike at the Old Navy clothing manufacturing plant. I remember that they were agitating for a raise from about $45 a month to $55 a month. Mind you, it’s possible as a native to survive on that kind of money, but it’s not very much, still. Westerners always pay much, much more in a place like that. The usual price of my hotels was between five and $10 a night, meals $2 or $3. Probably more expensive now. 5 x 9” or 13 x 23 cm., Oil.#pleinairpainting #cambodia #fishingboat #indianocean #stolenlunches

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