Nantucket Thoughts

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I have to say mine was a little less eventful in many ways. However, I truly found more joy this year than all the years I spent running around overspending to make sure I was getting the right gift that would soon be put a aside for the next great gadget that came out. It takes me back to when I was a kid, now that I think of it!

To this day I can remember the one gift that my Grandfather would have for me that trumped all other gifts. Funny now that Im thinking of it and perfectly fits to what I experienced this year. When I was a young boy my Grandfather would leave me a bag of Apples for Christmas and it was the one thing I was always happy to get. You see my Grandfather knew that I loved apples. It was personal and from the heart that he gave me those apples and that is what makes for a special gift, a gift from the heart! So this year we cut back and gave from the heart. We listened the each others stories and the joy and happiness came through this Christmas. A true Blessing!

The New Year is almost here and I find myself thinking more and more about Nantucket. It has already been way to long, yet the days seem to go faster and faster. I'm so anxious to get back the the island and do some paintings and meet new clients. But I know the truth of the long winter days that summer is a long way off. Winter is set in here around me in New York and almost keeps me in lock down mode to my studio and for me that is a happy feeling. Not that I don't like to be social because I do love being around people, I Just find that this is the time I really get to sink into who I am and try to find out the person God wants me to be. A peaceful place for me that I truly enjoy.

I am just getting myself set on doing a series of paintings, large canvases of Nantucket. I'm going through sketches and reference photos to working from of my favorite locations and picking the best of the best. My hope is to come up with over 10 large master works that will be available for sale as soon as they are complete. I will be doing a video update of the progress of each of these a paintings as I work through them. I will have a link here as well as my website www.christopherwheat.com If you have a favorite location on Nantucket let me know what it is, maybe it will be included in the series.

Today, I will be making my first selection of the view and will be getting the main details sketched out on the canvas, Check back tomorrow to see what the first painting will be.

The one thing I love about Painting is that It allows me to jump in the the place that I am painting, So I'm looking forward to Nantucket in the Summer time... Follow me on this journey I will be taking over the next 6 Months and tell your Nantucket Loving Friends too!