I Paint What I See

Maine

Paintings around the Camden. I am deeply enamored of the Camden Hills.

Viewe from Maiden Cliff
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Maiden Cliff
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Camden Hills
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Camden Hills from Tenant's Harbor
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I was looking for a place to paint in Camden and pulled off at a trailhead. As I got out of the car a group of hikers came out of the woods. One of then, a woman, was morbidly obese. I asked one of them, "Nice view up there?"

"Oh beautiful."

"Tough hike?"

"Not too bad."

I thought, if that woman can do it, so can I. So off I went with my fifty pounds of painting equipment. In flipflops. I very quickly realized what a mistake I'd made, but I carried on and finally reached the top, sweating and exhausted. It was then I realized that I'd forgotten to bring water with me, and on top of that, I didn't have any appropriately sized stretched paper. I ended putting these two smaller sheets together for a diptych. I also proceeded to burn the living daylights out of myself.

When I finally dragged myse;f back to the parking liot I gratefully drank three botle of boiing hot water from the trunk. I then wondered what I would have seen had I driven a little further, and literally aeround the next bend saw the next scene. I shivered for two days with sun posisoning, then returned to paint the second view.

This is Maiden Cliff, the site of a tragic 19th century suicide. The cross at the top of the mountain to the left is the location where I did the earlier painting.