Art after Retirement - Incredible!

I've been retired from engineering for one week and here are the results.  I'm refocusing on art and making it my priority.  My results tell me I'm headed in the right direction.  What do you think?

SOLD "Department Store", 21" X 27" by April M. Rimpo

Department Store
The original is SOLD, but
limited edition archival prints and poster prints are available

Print size options (inches):

12X16 Poster Print $50.00 USD 11X14 watercolor paper $85.00 USD 11X14 X0.75 canvas $120.00 USD

If you are interested in a print on canvas or a different size print on watercolor paper, contact April.  Prints can be made up to three times the size of the original painting, which was 21" X 27".

I was drawn to this scene as soon as I saw it; all the bikes, the beautiful doorway, and the bright sign had me in a second.  We drove past it quite a few times and each time I tried to get a photograph without much success.  I loved the charm of this department store in Marigot, St. Martin.  This is certainly not what we think of as a department store in the U.S.  I love color and this store had so much to offer.  I had to rearrange colors and bikes to make a better design but this just enhanced the thrill I felt when I first saw it.  I hope you love my painting as much as I loved the scene.

Prints are available on watercolor paper and on gallery wrapped canvas; check my store for other prints.

Paintings at Bernice Kish Gallery

Venice III

The current exhibit at Slayton House's Bernice Kish Gallery shows artwork by the Baltimore Watercolor Society.  Two of my pieces are in this exhibit.  "Venice III" received an Honorable Mention award.  "Pigeon Keeper" was highlighted in an article in Howard County Times article on the exhibit.  You can see the article online at
"Watercolor exhibit is awash with talent and vision" by Mike Giuliano

Pigeon Keeper

Click here to see all the award winners.

Sometimes it is the detail that makes the painting

A Day at the Fountain, 22" X 30",  © April M. Rimpo

A Day at the Fountain

Watercolor

22" X 30" image

29" X 37" brushed silver frame

$1650  SOLD

A Day at the Fountain celebrates the joy of children at play.  I composed this pieces from a series of photographs I took while visiting Charleston, SC.  A sense of motion was a critical element of this painting; motion of the water, the running children.  My goal was to catch a moment in time.  In order to get this sense of motion it was important to get the detail of the water spray.  My favorite child in this painting is the young girl in the orange and red striped swimsuit who is featured in the blowup on the right.  The young man in front was the focal point of the painting, but the nearly pointillist appearance of the girl is an important detail used to capture the moment.