Today, mid-April, snowflakes fall from the sky. What a heavy, ponderous day. Where is the weather my honey bees adore? In the meantime...

Screenprints...off to their new home on Long Island. Looking good. These images were developed to celebrate the Rhode Island Bicentennial, years ago. They are still in demand. I will sign your prints, good only while supply lasts. Each is printed on wonderful Mohawk Cover stock, and uses artful colors to make an unusual statement...two of five that were in the original collection. Two designs are sold out, the Rhode Island Beach poster and the Smudge poster, the latter having been the first to sell out in that time frame. Thanks for all  your enthusiasm and support. 

"One Brilliant Easter Daffodil," Instagram print for the season. This is one of my favorite spring images. Just a simple Daffodil at the peak of its glory, center composition, commanding a momentary beauty that is just undeniable. The long weeks of gray, wet, cold weather seem to subside,  now. The wood pile is down to its last quarter-- we still have some wood remaining to burn if we should need it. My rake, some cutting tools are at close hand, these days. I will be raking this property and trimming brush for the next month or so, in anticipation of May and June when mowing will be well underway. Spring is springing! 

Easter Week, lots on our minds, lots on my mind...in Spring 2021. "Can't Deal with This,"...here is a sketch, a black-and-white watercolor drawn originally on a xeroxed image featuring an eMail interface, as if the message arrives in eMail. I confess, gave me a chuckle at the time. But the print suggests a lot about what is going on in society, these days. I live with the sense that our myths, our great stories, that which undergird our faith and binds us together, are not holding up, very well. Could be wrong. Hope I'm wrong. A new, Great Awakening could be...not far off. But here is a sketch that captures a slice of modern American life as I saw it when I did it...in which the subject runs from the figure who is at the center of Western Civilization, and from the Church that serves as the backdrop, behind him...muttering into his phone to some unknown person, "I can't deal with this." After the past year, one so difficult for so many, here is to anyone who may read this blog-- may you have a deep and meaningful Easter weekend, this year. 

You can still have this print for Easter...John 4:24...funny how people hang photos, paintings, prints of both...but graphics, typography....this is a different matter. Often, not so popular. Here, pure typographic art expressing a lovely biblical verse in Lent, 2021. If you act today, you may still receive this print framed as you may prefer, in time for Easter. Remember, do not hang in bright light or direct sunlight...but in subdued life. This will add years to the life of your print. Thank you for your interest and support. 

The theme right now is Spring, coming up in a few days. Well, I'll be! Someone ordered this fall print, just a few days ago, in production as we speak. "Fall Leaves Surprise," is one of my favorites from the Instagram Photo Collection. Like many Instagram photos, this image was a fluke. I just saw this flash of light on green one late fall day, and click! There you go. 

Winter wanes, the grass in these parts is "greening up," slowly but surely, each day. One of my bee hives has died in the past several weeks, an often brutal time of year for honey bees when mites infect, food stores run out, temps run warm and cold, condensation takes its toll. And yet, one surviving hive is doing very well...fingers crossed. Will know more completely around April 1. So what to do with winter waning and the anticipation of Spring? Here is a "transitional print," taken in York Harbor, Maine. A person unknown, dressed for winter peeks through a gate, anticipating...what? Spring? Possibility. Here is "Woman at Door," an Instagram print. For obvious reasons, sizes are limited. 

March has rolled in like a LION, high winds, lots of trees and branches down, howling Pines...for 24 hours. We're lucky no damage....!

"Newport Country Club Original"...had a good time painting this image. Was returning from day at beach, had driven Ocean Drive, took detour, suddenly found myself in front of the famed Newport Country Club...so I pulled over and snapped a photo which in turn, led to this painting. I've added the golfer in the lower right, with his phone and his ball. He's using his phone to somehow dial in the shot to the green on eighteen. Here you see the image in the context of a home business, a small business-- a business setting. This painting hung in a spring time exhibit at New England Institute of Technology...in 2019. 

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Providence Skyline Original, acrylic on canvas, pays serious homage to the ubiquitous pixelation of images, particularly digital images. Pixelation has been a pet peeve of mine going back several decades, now. Note, this is an original work-- will post originals from time to time. Yes, limited edition prints are available in a fixed size. The view here is from Kennedy Plaza looking south east in the direction of what used to be known as Fleet National Bank (right) and Hospital Trust Bank (left, across the park in the foreground. Suitable for home or office. 

Snowy Spruce Tree, choice for mid-February 2021, a gloriously simple winter scene, the storm has blown thru, clear skies show up....if you like winter wall decor, you may find this a strong addition to your collection of photo prints; excellent gift photo print idea, nice marker as days grow longer, bee-hives begin to come to life, Robins show up to augur in Spring, new life in early stages of beginning, again. 

One couple I know is headed to their favorite Inn for Valentine's Day, 2021. The Ocean House would be among my favorites, pictured below. Located in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, it sits on a perch overlooking the ocean to the east and the town and harbor to the west, just a fabulous place to spend a summer day. We used to go there, my original family, in my youth, and what a memorable time it was. 

"The Hot Club," from pencil sketch, prints now available. Once an abandoned industrial site along the upper Narragansett Bay, this waterfront property was rescued by a friend who turned it into one of the City of Providence's most successful eateries and bars-- we loved going over there anytime of afternoon or evening. On a hot day, you could sit out on the dock along the waterfront and take a deep breath. Here is my tribute to the place. 

Psalm 23:4, such a powerful, comforting verse in a troubled time. Who can say what the New Year will bring-- into it we go. 

Lo-and-behold, here in the early part of January, several orders for screen-printed posters have come in in the past week, thank you, all. 

Florida Beach Poster™...shipped out! Headed to a resident in the great State of Florida, perfect! I gathered this sand, myself...the light areas are sand, you see below. We found a means of adhering the sand to the poster, splendid wall art image, unique choice of poster, especially in January. I will sign your poster for you. Good ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. Ships tube, USPS. One of a series of high-quality screen-printed posters on 100 lb. Mohawk Bristol cover stock, a fine project that lives well over the years, am happy to respond when people inquire. Then, too, an order came in for a Cape Cod poster-- that, too, has shipped out. Here is something new, a sound file...introducing this member of the Beach Poster family. 

Cape Cod Beach Poster™, a new set of offerings on George Delany Art...each one builds on the original, the Rhode Island Beach Poster™ no longer available, sold out! Note the circle simply highlights the actual Cape Cod sand that makes up this poster-- I went out to the Cape and dug it up, put it in a feed bag, myself! Ships USPS, money back guarantee, good only while supply lasts. 

New Year, New Art...coming soon, new images from Providence, and Newport, Rhode Island...and others. These images are of paintings...that will be added to my painting print selection series, look for them in early January. Some will be prints made from oils, others from acrylics...you be the judge. We're going thru the sorting period now, taking photos, and preparing to upload new content in this early part of the new year, 2021. Look for these, soon. #giftart in 2021, am on it! < grin > 

Christmas Eve Adventure: at 7:30 Christmas Eve, this print, 'Castle Hill Light," arrived from the west coast. It was due a week earlier but what with Covid and Christmas shopping crunch, delays have occurred all over country. I checked out the print, signed the back, and set out on a 45 minute trip to deliver it to my buyer friend...which I was able to complete, returning home before eleven. Mission accomplished. Thanks to all those in the production process who helped me track and gripe about this whole thing...prompting a last minute delivery...thank you! Here is the print upon late delivery and inspection. Too close to call! 

First Amendment Poster: You might ask, pre-Chrismas this dizzying year, what is on my mind? The same things that are on my mind every day...which would include the preservation and protection of our essential freedoms...the Five Freedoms as embodied in the sacred First Amendment. This poster can hang most anywhere and be relevant, today. 

"Big Boy 1" among my favorite Rooster Art studies, acrylic master on an ordinary wooden shingle, lots of fun to scratch out...from which these prints are offered on variety of materials, canvas, paper, acrylic, aluminum and wood, you may wish to investigate! This particular Rooster grew up from a chick in our coop, became the Alpha Bird, defended the coop for several years against all kinds of invaders, was eventually superseded by one of his cockerel offspring...just the way it goes! 

Bannister's Wharf, signed, sealed, delivered! Thanks for your order. Now is the time, not TOO late, but remember, add ten days production time to get thru Covid and seasonal shopping bottlenecks. Here, I drove up to the dock in Newport, Rhode Island, one beautiful evening, found the sky lit up and no one around, except me. Beautiful moment, how can this be, I asked myself. So I snapped a couple of photos that served as the basis for the acrylic painting on masonite, from which these prints are offered. Check out this Sound file! 

Order filled, thank you! Very popular print, this one of "Castle Hill Light," at Castle Hill, Newport, Rhode Island. I drove down there myself and took a few pictures on that cold winter day...that served as the basis for the painting from which these prints are offered. Winter art, one of my favorites. The view is of a lighthouse in a forelorn spot as so many lighthouses are, up against an enormous sea, under an enormous, ominous sky. I made an effort to capture the spirit of it, here. 

Re: Good til 11/30/20, 20% OFF, check out this sound file. 

Pre-Holiday Art Print Sale Right Now, here is, by example, "First Beach, Newport, RI," prints made from original acrylic on masonite, small, 7" x 5", one of my favorite beach-scapes. During this daunting period in American history, perhaps Thanksgiving will hold for millions of us even greater meaning than has typically been true. Take a look. And...here is some news you can use! 

Look for it, shortly, Pre-Holiday Sale. Here is a recent "Order Received, Fulfilled, Shipped, Received...Hung!" Thank you for your support of my work. Prints are high-quality, available at variety of sizes, finishes, mount/frame styles, PLUS, you can use two features to imagine how your selection might look on a particular wall or..even, your wall. This uses a version of Augmented Reality and your cell phone, intriguing, to say the least. 

A  SPECIAL DAY: Thank you Vets. Whatever I can say on this subject is barely at all adequate. .5% of this population Defend our Country. These are the people who defend our 5 Freedoms, seen here. I think it is more sacred in the grand scheme of history than any of us may realize. Now seems like the time to step up to defeat the deceivers, to fight to preserve the genius provided by our Founding Fathers and our Vets. 

November 5, 2020, what a time-frame, what a set of circumstances. I will note the week on a relatively light-hearted note, here. How about a simple photo image just right for Fall...gourds, pumpkins, some flowers, an accidental arrangement I stumbled on as I strolled thru the small town of Dorset, Vermont, some years ago, an out-door setting...and here is a little Chant Video created as a simple promotion..thanks for your attention to this blog post. 

We have a winner to my first-ever "Tough Times Free Art Print Giveaway." A big thank-you to all who entered this promotion before the deadline. Here is our winner, selected randomly-- who elected the optional print on metal rather than paper...which is a substantial work, as seen here. Mary from Florida has hung her God Bless America poster as you see here. Congratulations...Mary! /;^])

Sacred Rights: First Amendment, time to cherish now, as much as ever. Election couple weeks away, Big Tech conspiring to determine what news you can know, what ideas you can entertain, what language you can use, always dressed up in the language of virtue. Lower case v. The Five Freedoms are right here. If you didn't learn them in high school or perhaps have forgotten, you can see them all included in the design of this single poster. Time to stand up, seems to me. Some things are sacred. This is one. 

Reflections on the season past. Rather than Christopher Columbus-- I value this holiday and its celebration of the contributions of Italian Americans to our culture...have no plans to give it up, I focus in a different direction. Reflections on the season past...summer. Yes, a Day Lily comes to mind. Doesn't 2020 clang around loudly in our consciousness? And its not over, yet, now by a long shot. But if serenity and peace can be found in a few seconds here and a few seconds there, I have found some in the presence of images like this. Like life itself, these images come and are gone.I am glad to include this image in my Instagram photo art collection. 

We have a winner in the first-ever, "Tough-Times Free Art Print Giveaway." Yes, we do. Mary M., from Florida, is now relishing her win and will decide whether she prefers a paper print, or metal, her choice! I am glad she is happy about participating in this new-for-me event. Her selection as winner was made after my invitation was posted to various social media sites and email invitations sent out over perhaps two weeks. Thanks to all who were part of this event. 

Bruce Peninsula, Southern Ontario, you blitz down the highway...and you will see these splendid scenes which I think make fine summer or fall wall decor, the image is taken on the fly-by, a second and its gone. Cows for as far as the eye can see, crops, and here, large wind-turbines. They don't bother me in the wide open spaces of Southern Ontario...winds whip down this peninsula. Check out photos on my website, George Delany Art. 

Summer leaves us now, Fall arrives...am left with a memory of this moment when I caught a scene on the water in York Harbor, Maine. A simple estuary, a tidal pond catches a few leaves as Fall arrives, I am the one lucky enough to be on the scene. I will be paying attention to "leaf art," in the weeks just ahead. Here is a start on the season should you find yourself in this Pandemic seeking to "change up" your wall decor. One of my favorite Instagram photo images of that year. 

Never Forget 9.11.01, a Day of Remembrance. We all know what this is about. I will add this poster image to my Americana Collection. This entire section, Americana Posters, was undertaken not long afterward...in response to the events of this day. The flag you see here flew on our home...on that day. 

Sunflower Summer! Here we are, one minute in crazy May, the next in crazy September, just what you'd expect in crazy times. Here is one of my favorites...a honey-bee working her magic on a September Sunflower-- this is my second summer as a bee- keeper, and bees this year are more mysterious than they were in year one, different flight paths, different Queens, different water sources...but a productive season it has been...so far. Check out this print, Bees on Sunflower... on George Delany Art. 

Watch Hill, Rhode Island, in August, what is more charming than this little ocean-front hamlet by the sea? I miss Watch Hlil, this year what with the Pandemic...we were headed to the beach in Watch Hill a couple of weeks ago and were reminded by friends...we risked incurring a $500 fine-- two seniors going to the beach on a sunny day. So we shifted our plans. Still plan to get down there when this condition lifts. Here is one of my favorite of all yachts seen along the wharfs in this town. 

August...Honey-bee Art Prints, of which this is one from a series of five original paintings, so far. In every case, the focus is on the Honey-bee. I'm trying to get at how astonishing these animals are...they are always ahead of me, the neophyte bee-keeper. They know what is going on. They have the whole place mapped. They are high-precision flying machines, the most incredible! In this case, the honey-bee wants to get out of the way of the smoke....the bee-keeper is smoking bees prior to investigating the hive in summer. The Honey-bee knows what is going on, all right. 

August 2020, Lilies have been on display, love this time of year, but we need rain. The earth has that "talc' quality. It's been hot, very hot... tomatoes are coming in, we have a volunteer melon coming along, seed must have come from the compost heap. Pollinator Wildflower Garden, first ever, is doing well-- I water it, nightly. Lots of inspiration for summer art prints! 

August Wall Art: How about the First Amendment? Do you believe we've outsourced our five freedoms to the corporate tech-titans? With our Federal election 90 days off, this topic keeps coming up in my life...as a particularly important one. Why is this? Because it is under attack. I am one in this context who has no plans to participate in the rewriting of it, the degradation of it, the compromise of it, the watering down of it, or the trashing of it. "Just sayin'..."-- my orientation is more in the direction of helping in whatever way I can to steward, protect, guard and cherish the glorious vision of our Founding Fathers, their battles, their struggles, their compromises, their trade-offs, their wrangling, and all the trials thru which they persevered so that we may inherit this country-- in our own efforts to 'build a more perfect union.' This is my choice, my decision. Suggest you may find "Founding Brothers," a good book to take up as summer winds down. 

Sun sets on a hot day in York Harbor, Maine...one of my favorite (among many) summer haunts...a young fisherman is happy casting from his rock, a couple of kids are still in the water in the distance, the sky cools down, peace settles in...my kind of summer evening. 

July heats up. The humidity rises, the moisture in our gardens shrinks. We need rain. But out here on the ocean where the sky meets the vastness of the cool summer ocean....all under the sun, the day-sailer has a ball. No worries, no cares, nothing but the sound of the wind and the sea, with possible exception of some random gulls squawking down food as they soar over the water-- all in all, a memorable experience. This is what I've attempted to capture in this print, made from a small original painting, 7" x 5" acrylic paint on masonite board, from which these prints are offered. "Sailor Off Newport," an antidote to the month's summer heat. 

Pandemic Beach Days-- here we are in a weird and trying year, in a weird and trying summer. I painted the original from which these prints are offered, some years ago. The series honors one of my favorite beaches around this area, Horseneck Beach in Westport, MA. I painted the series well before the pandemic of this year...but it is amusing now to see my two protagonists "social distancing" on the beach. Looks like they may just squeeze in at the 6' mark. 

Tumultuous times, Happy July 4, 2020! Yes, I've "thought about it." Yes, I've "rethought July 4." Yes, I've "reimagined July 4." Please, save your breath. Today is a wonderful day in the life of our Country, wishing you every Happy July 4 celebration!  What document, what sort of summer art can better express the times...than the Declaration of Independence. Here is to all of us who call ourselves, Americans. 

Kayaks on the river...in summer, a great summer wall decor selection, available now at George Delany art. I happened by this site late last season, only to realize the site and image work well as a summer kayak wall art selection, right now. I'll be going by this park later this week, no doubt these kayaks will be out on the river, exactly where they belong! 

The Declaration of Independence, from my Americana Poster Collection: In challenging times, I will be posting graphic expressions of American Ideals, frequently-- offered as wall art, or wall decor, or American Poster Art, or Americana-- for those who have never learned American history, now is the time. For those who may want to "throw it out," perhaps now is the time to revisit our ideals. For those who love our founding ideals and choose to live into them (rather than away from) more fully, perhaps you will appreciate these posts. I have endeavored to capture in contemporary typographic expression the quality of this essential, founding document. You may see others here to consider. 

Paint a lighthouse, you paint an image that holds romantic value for a lot of people in the art market. Here is Goat Island light, off the coast of Southern Maine in the Kennebunkport area. The original painting is acrylic on an old wooden shingle, from which these prints are offered. This image is one of a series of such images I painted in a "Lighthouse Immersion Experience..." some years ago when I completed the entire family seen on this site, and then some. 

Spring...Marches on. Amidst Pandemic, economic meltdown, racial and international tensions, last week we got from a particular family member an on-line tour of a family chicken coop. Am glad to report hens are well, roosters are crowing, and chicks are breaking out of their shells, growing up amidst saw dust, chicken feed and green grass, the spirit of the season comes thru, unmistakable. 

Memorial Day Weekend, in a daunting time, an even more meaningful weekend, just ahead. We've had months now to figure out what matters in life, to reflect, to catch up, to initiate new activities, to acknowledge, to understand...here is the weekend to pay special attention. 

We're beyond itchy. Time to work, to get back to work, to open up in every way...safely, of course, but open up! Data tells us that survival rates are much higher than we thought, originally-- and death rates are much smaller than we originally understood. So let's protect those who need to be protected...and get this local, regional and national economy on the move, again. 

View of Eagle Island Light, Maine, original acrylic on wood shingle, prints available at George Delany Art. One of a series of "shingle-lighthouses" painted by artist. 

A few recent testimonials from my FB page, thanks to enthusiasts for their remarks...

"...the very best and you never know what's next!" 

"...George is a fantastic and creative artist!" 

"...insights to nature and art..." 

We made it...to May, despite all kinds of chaos, mayhem, pandemic, economic meltdown, health chaos, geopolitical shenanigans, you name it, here we are! We can do this. < g > 

Another cold, rainy April day, today. These are the days that make May and June so glorious, are they not? These are times when people, most people are home, or occupied in some fashion decidedly different from the norm, unlike any other, I would say...here in the Days of the Virus.