Dave's small paintings

I still have several blog posts to do from our trip to the North Island, but I'm going to take a break and post some of Dave's recent paintings. He's been painting smaller works to sell matted but not framed. These thirteen paintings range from 2x4 to 4x5 inches. The first two are sunsets: fishing boats in a harbor on the Coromandel Peninsula (North Island) and Halfmoon Bay on Stewart Island (off the southern tip of the South Island). Dave paints from photographs, and, in my last post, you can see the photograph he used to paint this first one.

The next one is Otago Harbour from the Peninsula looking toward Port Chalmers, which is the main container shipping port.

The next one is a "poor man's dry dock," according to Dave.

Dave painted the next one in Queen's Gardens, a park in Dunedin.

Now some churches. First, two versions of the Church of the Good Shepherd, an iconic New Zealand church on the shores of Lake Tekapo, a turquoise blue glacier-fed lake at the foot of the Southern Alps. Then an Anglican church in Arrowtown, near Queenstown. Then First Presbyterian Church in Dunedin. You can see that Dunedin was founded by Presbyterians, because they built a Presbyterian version of a cathedral. Last of the churches is the small Roman Catholic church a couple blocks from our house, with lovely tree roses lining the walkway to the church.

Now lighthouses. The first one is in Lyttleton Harbour, near Christchurch. Then Tairoa Head, at the very end of the Otago Peninsula, near Dunedin. Then Shag Point, a lighthouse about an hour north of Dunedin.