I just got an online art appraisal of this oil painting that was found by the side of the road in Westfield by my sister who gave it to me. Things people throw away! It is by Cape Cod artist Marilyn Schofield dated 89 or 80. It looks like a Cape Cod winter shore scene. It’s appraisal comes in as $200-$400. My wife Jean loved the painting and we framed it!

I received the painting below as a gift years ago and just got an appraisal from an online art appraisal company. It is a large pastel painting of a lighthouse and is dated 1976. The artist was Nathan Kredenser and the light house is Ned Point Light in Mattapoisett, MA. Value is only $200-$300 because he was a relatively unlisted artist who specialized in murals.

The painting below was made by James Hendricks a former professor of art at UMass Amherst. He created large mixed media paintings of abstract objects many looking like comets and space explosions. One of his paintings were on the cover of Time magazine I believe back in the 1970's. He gave this as a gift to me and a couple of my associates when he was a customer of the print company that I worked for.

Image area: 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" on paper

I took advantage of the warm weather Saturday and ventured out plein air painting in Westfield. I painted Crane Pond just before dark and made some edits in the studio.

"Crane Pond Winter Twilight", oil on canvas panel, 12" x 16"

I just received as a gift a graphite sketch pictured below. The artist is Harold von Schmidt a famous illustrator/artist from the mid 1900's whose illustrations and paintings were in the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers magazines. His paintings go for thousands of dollars. I was told that this sketch was one of many that he did of his comrades during the World War II.

Another boat painting! This time an old rusty trawler from a photo that I took while on my trip in Newport harbor a few years ago.

"Old Newport Trawler", oil on canvas panel, 12" x 16"

I just painted the first painting of the new year pictured below. It is a nautical scene of a large red working ship that we saw while on a trip to Newport Harbor years ago.

"Nantucket", oil on canvas panel, 12" x 16"