by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 4, 2021
Driving the country roads in the North Woods of Maine looking for places to paint I did not expect to come face to face with a historical episode from World War II. Yet that is exactly what happed when I learned of the remains of a prisoner of war camp hidden away in...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 26, 2020
The summer of 2015 was the first time I really set out to explore art and develop my skills in Maine. I sketched and painted like crazy. Spent days wandering the DownEast coastline towns such as Rockland, Camden, Southwest Harbor, Bass Harbor, and Belfast, visiting...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Oct 11, 2020
Plein air painting in Maine’s North Woods during the Fall season was exhilarating, but I was totally awed when catching a glimpse of the endangered Atlantic Salmon leaping upstream to spawn. My agenda included painting a waterfall, and while asking directions a local...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 1, 2020
I am a fan of old trains, so in late July I went on a sketch adventure to the abandoned locomotives of the Allagash wilderness. Deep in Maine’s North Woods sit two rusting 100-ton steam engines, remnants of the lumber industry that once supplied twenty percent of...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 30, 2019
This past summer while roaming the Maine countryside looking for enticing scenes for plein air painting I came across a piece of American railway history. It was the crumbling remains of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. The town was Thorndike, and it sits...
