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Flying High watercolor
7 x 10, framed 12 x 16 $750
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The Road Home watercolor
10.5 x 8.5 framed 18 x 16 $1,200
"It has been said that one can't go home again; however, when one does, one better understands the beauty that was left behind. This is a favorite subject of mine: the main barn viewed was once where my great grandfather housed several teams of horses that helped him worked the land. The snow cover highlight the quiet, elongated winter shadows; the fields demonstrate the wonderful color that is not always appreciated in the cold season. Yes, one can go home again."
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End of Day watercolor
7.5 x 11.5 framed 13.5 x 17 $750
"Another quiet work of art — shadows lengthening, a sail yet to be lowered; no children running about, families already in retreat to their abode; a few gulls looking; the horizon given an incidental impression of the spit of land known as Monomoy."
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Off Season watercolor
13 x 21 framed 20 x 28 $1,000
"Whatever the season, tide or weather, Buck's Creek tidal basin in Chatham, like so many other Cape vistas, is a scene to behold the changing modes of nature. Many have attempted to quantitate what makes a work of art. Richard Schmid called it best when he claimed that 'a confluence of the tangible and the spiritual are needed to make a successful painting'. This painting exhibits this combination of those principles."
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Mitchell River Dory watercolor
9 x 13.25 framed 17 x 21.25 $800
"This small, sometimes neglected, boat has been catching my eye for years as it rests on the green marsh, awaiting the next rising tide, to float it free. Whatever the light or atmosphere, it's been one of my most inspirational subjects."
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Fog's Lifting watercolor
8 x 11.25 framed 16 x 19.25 $600
"It's been said that Chatham is the first stop of the East wind. Most summer mornings are affected by some
form of fog billowing in off the water's surround. The challenge for any artist is to capture the scene of a
boat in motion coupled with the elusive fog."
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Guardian of Edgartown watercolor
12.25 x 17.625 framed 18.25 x 24.625 $1,000
"Leaving the Vineyard, on the ferry, with an incoming tide, in a crowded channel, the boat made little if any forward motion. This afforded the time and prospective for several, small sketches. The atmosphere that afternoon was inspiring. Gathering heat of the day, distant clouds were pushed higher by the advancing cooler air. The scene was perfect."
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Stage Harbor Portal watercolor
11 x 17.5 framed 20 x 26 $1,000
"On my first visit to Chatham in 1970, I walked the length of Harding's Beach to this "safe" portal for boaters.
I sketched, then painted a 'primitive' acrylic picture of the decommissioned lighthouse, so many years ago.
These waters can be a challenge for novice sailors going in or out of the harbor. “Safe Harbor Portal” was outlined in the safety of my boat and sketched at a distance, a great spot to work and observe the portal."
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Hollyhocks watercolor
9.5 x 6.5 framed 17 x 13 $750
"One of my favorite flowers. As a child, these six or eight-foot tall, flowered stalks lined the sunny-side of our cattle barn where we would lean out open windows and count the many humming birds that flew to their nectar. These flowers are a wonder to paint."
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David E. Burns, M.D., was raised on a farm, retired from a career as an acute-care physician at the community hospital in Little Falls, New York.
Married with three adult children, he moved to Cape Cod 12 years ago. Recently he authored a recent memoir (Take a Deep Breath); and has now returned to a love of painting watercolors.
Artist's Statement:
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At a young age, on our farm, without any formal instruction, I was encouraged to the simple task of drawing: sketching horses, field of grain, and barns. Prospective was an apparent natural talent. On patient charts, I would sketch-out a patient's traumatic injuries or show with a pen sketch, where the fractured bones were or perhaps show the placement of an internal pulmonary artery indwelling catheter's position and even where an x-ray disclosed a position of the ‘tip’ of a cardiac pacing wire. I had found that drawing saved precious time — rather than write-out several paragraphs to explain that which a sketch could accomplish in a few seconds.
It was not until after my first heart attack, when my spouse, Marcia, signed me into a formal college art course that taught the use of watercolors. For the past 20 years, I have applied my interests, my observations, and studied with numerous nationally known artists—in various workshops. Additionally, I have spent a week, for six subsequent years on Monhegan Island with individual instruction from Guy Correiro (AWS). However I believe, having known Bus Romeling during the last four years of his life — sketching and painting with him, on-site in the rural, leather-stocking countryside of New York State — set the tone and style for my watercolor art (see BusRomeling.com). I particularly enjoy working to capture nature's affects found in sky and on the waters around Cape Cod.
The majority of my artistic efforts are attempts to capture a particular quality drawn from common ordinary scenes, sometimes derelict structures or a weathered boat or a vista that has been taken for granted, scenes accompanied by a certain light or from weather conditions that strike my fancy. I usually sketch on site, then complete my paintings in the studio. I hope you enjoy the results of my endeavors.”
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