Robert Kahler Landscape Paintings for Sale!

Tired of hearing about the election?  Looking for a unique gift for the holidays?  Escape into Art!

I have one watercolor and two charcoal drawings for sale at River Arts Gallery in Damariscotta, ME.  Two of the three are pictured below.  These are sold without frames which allows a lower price for the holidays!

If you are interested in any additional paintings on my facebook page or blog  or if you would like to potentially commission a painting please email me at robert.kahler65@gmail.com

I work in oil, watercolor, charcoal, gouache, acrylic and pencil and I have paintings ranging in size from 4" x 6" to 2' X 3'

Rainy Day at the Basin

Watercolor and Gouache

12" x 18"

$125.00

The Falls, Little River Topsham/Lisbon

Charcoal on Paper

12" x 18"

$100.00

If you'd like to learn more about the locations or my creative process, please explore my blog

https://robertkahlerlandscapepaintings.blogspot.com

Enjoy and be well.

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Eastport Shades of the Past

Shades of the Past

Gouache on card stock

I've been experimenting with small painted sketches, working out different ideas for subjects including utilizing differently cropped perspectives which keeps the subject focused yet implies a lot of distance outside of the view.

This scene was taken from an on location watercolor I completed a few summers ago in Eastport, ME.  I was struck by the play of shadows on the sunlight face of an abandoned factory just off main street.

As a student of history, I could just imagine the harbor filled with three and four masted schooners in its heyday and I decided to alter the pattern of the shadows on the factory to represent that history.

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Overcast Day at the coast

 

Overcast Day at the Coast

Acrylic 3" by 5"

This is another small seascape I painted after doing some detail work on a larger painting.  It's an imaginary scene but based on many years of exploring the Maine coast.  I find these quick sketches to be very freeing.  

I go through different phases of sketching.  A few years ago it was a deep exploration of pen and ink. Lately it's been small color sketches in watercolor and acrylic from imagination.  I keep being reminded of how each work informs future works.  While I was painting this small sketch I had a an unplanned trip.  I didn't do it consciously, but when I mixed the paints I flashed back to living over a garage in Westbrook, working on landscape painting with our new arrival (Ari) asleep in the living room.  

It was just one brushstroke but as the paint mixed on the canvas I was transported back nearly a quarter of a century.   This is also what I love about painting on location.  The intense focus and observation of nature, processing it and expressing it on canvas or paper that place/moment in time becomes part of you and you of it.   I urge you to give it a try!