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Paints and Photographs scenes of Gloucester, Massachusetts Waterfront and Cape Ann. http://capeannpainter.wordpress.com/

Bill Hubbard Shows His!

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Bill Hubbard Shows His!

3rd Submission in the Series “Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine”

http://bill-hubbard.artistwebsites.com

Paul,
This was a great idea until I tried to take a picture of my “corner” and came to the reality that I actually have four.  My wife is an artist and a writer.  I paint.  We live in a 2 bedroom apartment which has her sketches and my paintings on 8 walls of three rooms.  I even have a painting in my bathroom.  So, I’ve attempted to  show it all in two pictures.  For the last few months I’ve been painting out side quite a bit but now, the the advent ofhot weather, I’m back in my corners till fall.
I try to paint with a pallet limited to Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Deep Red,  Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue and Permanent Rose and get away with it when I’m outside and have limited space.  However, in my corner I’ve found good use for Daler & Rowney’s Flesh, Yellow Ochre and Ivory Black.  I paint mostly with large bristle flats and rounds but, for detail utilize a few sable points and a couple liners for rigging.
My mother taught me the rudementaries of oil painting and I took several of Bob Benham’s adult ed courses at GHS.  I also fished with Emile Gruppe and was fortunate to be invited to tag along for a number of his outings back in the 1960s.  I lived on Cape Cod and fished and painted with watercolorist, Anton Stetzko who introduced me to waer colors.  When I moved here to Florida I started seriously to paint again and took up Acrylics which I now mix with pen.
Visit my artists website and Blog at:
http://bill-hubbard.artistwebsites.com

Big Assed Ducks?

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Heads Up!! New Kids On The Block

In the pond across from Pebble Beach

What are these things? Geese? Swans? Big assed Ducks? Or what?

Rare Yellow, Blue, Calico Lobster and Other Mutant Lobsters

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Rare Yellow Lobster and Other Mutant Lobsters We’ve Documented Down Here At Captain Joe and Sons Over The Years

Tune in to Diane Sawyer national news on channel 5 tonight at 6 for the story.
Here’s the yellow lobster Dave Jewell aboard the Lady J caught last week.
The lobster on the right obviously is the normal one. There are no bands on the yellow one because it was a female bearing eggs and only brought in to take pictures of.


Here’s a blue one from last December-

 

Here’s an albino one from last June

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To see the ocean oddity slide show which I added some more blue shaded lobster, and quadruple clawed claws to you can click this text

Here’s a speckled cull we got back in May of 2009

Speckled Lobster Landed At Captain Joe’s

Another Blue One-

New Hampshire 2012 Heroes Awards

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CLICK HERE FOR THE WMUR CH. 9 REPORT

From the Unionleader,
“CONCORD, N.H. — Dozens of first-responders and quick-acting citizens received recognition at the Statehouse on Thursday for their heroic actions.
The annual Union Leader Hero Awards recognize people who acted heroically to help others, some even sacrificing their own lives.
The waters of the Merrimack River were running high last summer when a man and his two stepdaughters fell off their jet ski and were left clinging to a barrier cable just 300 feet from the Amoskeag Falls and likely death.
And then there was Frontiero, the 27-year-old emergency medical technician from Nashua who went to the aid of two women being attacked by a knife-wielding motorist on Spruce Street last Oct. 9. The attacker turned the knife on Frontiero, fatally stabbing him 16 times. The two women survived.
“Paul Frontiero will always be a hero,” McQuaid said to a standing ovation from the approximate 200 people who gathered beneath a white tent. Paul and Cathy Frontiero of Gloucester, Mass., accepted the award posthumously on behalf of their son, whom they described as someone who spent his life helping others.   “We’re proud of him,” said Salvatore Frontiero, 25, one of Paul’s three brothers.”

CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY

Free Ride

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 A few Rockport Homies going for a ride and looking for a handout aboard the Lobster Boat “Amie”

Taken from Old Garden Beach, Rockport, Ma

Sailing By

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Sailing By Coast Guard Station Gloucester

http://www.uscg.mil/d1/airstaCapeCod/mh60j/mh-60j.asp

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Eileen Patten Oliver Shows Hers!

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Eileen Patten Oliver Shows Hers!

2nd Submission in the series: “I’ll Show You Mine If you Show Me Yours”

From Eileen;

“I posted pictures on my Facebook page a while back of the little corner of the world where I do my painting. I was always posting pictures of the finished pieces and thought it would be fun for people to see where I actually do the work. This is my paint box and brushes. I use heavy bodied acrylic paint as it has a very similar quality and texture as oils but are faster and easier to work with. My palette is just an old, cracked plate. I like the way I can move the paint around to blend on the smooth surface and it’s easy to clean up.

I love having this opportunity to peek into the paint boxes of other artist to see the tools of their trade!”
 
Eileen Patten Oliver

To see more beautiful paintings from Eileen of Cape Ann click the Links Below.

http://eileen-patten-oliver.artistwebsites.com 

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oliver-Fine-Art/105812722837414

Click here to see how you can share your painting set up with GMG 

 

Seven Seas Whale Watching Report from May 5th and 6th 2012

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Seven Seas Whale Watching Report from May 5th and 6th 

From Jay Frontiero;
“After not being out on the water for a few days we were finally able to get off shore and look for some whales again this weekend. Our search took us to the southern edge of Stellwagen Bank… a little over 30 miles from Gloucester… but I think everyone onboard agreed that it was worth the extra time and effort to get there. The whales were spectacular!
On both May 5th and 6th we were treated to fantastic feeding displays from large groups of Humpback Whales.  Many of the whales we sighted were old friends. That is to say they are Humpback Whales that we see return to the Stellwagen Bank/southern Gulf of Maine region to feed nearly every year. We have therefor gotten to many many of these whales quite well and we are always happy to see them return in the spring and know they have made the long migration north from their breeding grounds in the Caribbean safely.
The individual Humpback Whales we were able to identify over the weekend were:

WIZARD  (who has one of the most beautiful tails of any whale)
CAJUN (a favorite whale of MANY whale watchers)
ABRASION and her new calf (our first mother/calf pair of the year!)
IOTA
LAVALIERE
FRACTURE
DIVISION
TUNGUSKA (one of my favorites)
FALCON
SCYLLA’S 2008 CALF (not yet named)
BLACK HOLE
This list will most likely grow as I still have a lot of photos to go through and try and identify.”
Click here for the rest of the Seven Seas Whale Watch Report

FOG OFF!

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FOG OFF!

The Wanderbird arrives in Gloucester

http://www.wanderbirdcruises.com/

Barry Marshall Shows His!

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“Show me yours and i’ll show you mine”

First Submission;

From Barry Marshall;

“Hello Joey,

Thank You so much for Good Morning Gloucester.I moved away years ago but once a Gloucester boy always a Gloucester boy.So enjoyed all the pictures and stories and actually will be back there for a couple weeks mid May.This is my palette .Unfortunately It seems the palette gets more attention then the paintings,still working on that.I studied with one of the best Gloucester painters around,David Curtis.With out his help I don’t know where I’d be today.I have a small gallery on the Central Coast of California and paint on location almost daily.

Thank You Again, In Paint, Barry Marshall”

 www.barrymarshallpaintings.com

Click here to see how you can share your painting set up with GMG 

One of Barry’s Beautiful Paintings from his website;

What Happens on GMG………………..

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What Happens on GMG When Joey’s on Vacation Stays on GMG.

Right?

Photo sent in by a Diehard GMG Fan.

I’m a few photos short of a Women of GMG Calendar.

Keep’em coming!

Tonights Supermoon and Last Years “Rum” Moon

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Tonights Supermoon and Last Years “Rum” Moon

Moonrise 7:37pm  05/05/2012 

From EarthSky.org

Photo From http://earthsky.org/tonight

“According to U.S. clocks, May 5, 2012 features the closest and largest full moon of this year.  Calendars say May 6, by the way, for this same close full moon as seen from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.  We astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon.  The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month.  But last year, when the closest and largest full moon occurred on March 19, 2011, many used a term we’d never heard: supermoon.  We’ve heard this term again at this 2012 close full moon.  What does it mean exactly?  And how special is the May 5, 2012 supermoon?” CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

Below is a photo I took last Summer of the Full “RUM MOON”

 It’s something i’ll never forget. I almost retired after taking this shot.

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/the-money-shot-forgive-me-lord-for-i-know-not-what-i-do/

Supermoon Info for tonight.

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Supermoon Info for tonight.

Moonrise  7:37pm

Look to 115 degrees on the Compass for moonrise location.

Hopefully it will clear enough for a great view. Although a few clouds would help the composition for the photographers.

Show me Yours and I’ll Show you Mine! a call to Artists

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Show me Yours and I’ll Show you Mine!

A call to Artists!

Deb Clarke shares her paint box with us. If there are any painters out there that would like to share their Paint box photos with us please email with a Photo and info like Deb has done. Also include anything you’d like to share. Such as; Your website, facebook page, exhibits etc. Email me at Frontiero@hotmail.com

From Deb Clarke;

 

“This was my father’s french easel, now it is mine. it was pristine when i got it a few years ago, now it is broken in.

my colors:
cad yellow light
cad yellow medium
lemon yellow
yellow ochre
burnt sienna
grumbacher red (napthol red)
alizarin crimson
pthalo green
winsor blue (pthalo blue)
cadmium blue
ultramarine blue
grumbacher pre-test white original (titanium)

a few big brushes, mostly flats, a few rounds, maybe a filbert or two”.

Deb Clarke

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

Deb’s Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/profile.php?id=1582751786

ORION, Son of Poseidon

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Orion Son of Neptune (Poseidon)

He was a handsome giant and a mighty hunter. His father gave him the power of wading through the depths of the sea, or, as others say, of walking on its surface.

Orion

by Melissa Lee;

“Orion was the son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Euryale. Like most of Poseidon’s children, Orion was a man of gigantic proportions. He also was quite the hunter, and the constellation that bears his name forms the shape of a great hunter in a defensive pose against Taurus, the bull.

While a young man Orion fell in love with Merope, the daughter of Dionysus and Ariadne.) Orion sought to marry Merope and he remained in the king’s service for some time attempting to win his favor, but Oenopion dragged his feet in arranging the marriage. Impatient, Orion raped Merope. Naturally, the king decided to take revenge. He got Orion drunk, and when the giant fell asleep, Oenopion put his eyes out and threw him out towards the sea.”     CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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