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Childhood Revisited is probably the most amusing thing I've ever painted. With my grandson Henry in mind, I wanted to paint something for him that would always remind him of me just as I was reminded of him (and smiled) while painting it. I set up the still life but took a photo of it since at the time I couldn't paint from where it was set up. So, it is a still life that I painted from a photo. When I was a child, things were much more simple than they are today and so it was with toys as well. This is the stuff that made my childhood memorable. The blocks and the plastic army men were always around the house and we played with them all the time. In the painting, a dinosaur has come into view from the darkness but the little band of army men were expecting him and set themselves up around the little red truck and the blocks. Now that the stage has been set, only imagination can complete the outcome.

I hope you enjoy the theme as much as I did painting it.

Best Regards!

Yesterday I put up my latest piece of art titled "At the Koi pond".  This is the largest piece that I've posted on my website and it is also one of my favorites. There is something soothing and relaxing about watching fish and so it also goes with painting them. They inspire me and putting them on a canvass is the next best thing to being there. And I think it follows that people will want to admire this painting as much as I enjoyed making it. I will be making a series of Koi paintings in the upcoming months. I hope folks will check in to see this and all of my works as time rolls on.

If you see something you like on my website, please consider ordering a print. Of course the original is available for sale also.

Merry Christmas and highest regards to all!

R.B. Christian III

There was a time where I envisioned owning a very large boat. The substantial funds for such a boat never arrived during my more idealistic and younger years. Yet, I've always admired the people that owned these large boats or as some would call them "Yachts". Although I have owned a couple of boats they were very small by comparison and very modest in price. Much to my wife's chagrin, the maintenance and work caused me to eventually get rid of my boats. I don't envy the owner's of these large vessels because of the work and the expense involved and I can think of better places to spend my money anyway. Not that I could afford one mind you. Rather now in my later years, I prefer to pay a small sum and take a tour boat etc. Less work and more enjoyment for me.

Speaking of tour boating, my painting, "Planned Retirement" is from a photo I took while I was on a tour boat in Saint Augustine, Florida. I knew then I would make a painting of it someday. As I painted it, I started to wonder what the owners of this boat did for a living. Hence the title of my painting was conceived. 

I'm not really sure what was the actual name of the boat, but I named it (in the painting) the "Mary Carol" in honor of my late mother. The thought of her and boats made me smile when I was painting it. She always loved the beach and never missed a boat if she could catch it.

Regards!

RB Christian III