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Artwork by Bill Paarlberg

Artwork by Bill Paarlberg

  • Artwork for Sale
    • Bill Paarlberg’s Watercolor Paintings For Sale
    • Bill Paarlberg’s Sketchbook Paintings and Class Demos For Sale
  • Portfolios
    • Living Creatures in the Paint: The Paintings Are Alive
    • Watercolors
      • Paintings of Smuttynose Island
      • Watercolors of Portsmouth
    • The Famous Monsters of Portsmouth
    • Drawings of Portsmouth
  • Exhibits
    • Full Bloom Flower Show at Caffé Kilim
  • Writing About Artwork
    • When Artists and Scientists Learn from Each Other: The Shoals Marine Lab Artist-in-Residence Program
    • DeWitt Hardy Taught the Making of Magic
    • The Nature of the Plein Air Artist
    • Illustrating Portsmouth
    • Illustrating Mayto
  • About and Contact

Author: Bill Paarlberg

Sasha and Sperry Are Gone

Sasha Davidson was a freelance art director who lived with his partner, writer Ralph Sperry, on Langdon Steet, just off Isling

re:Ports. Magazine

In late 1980 or early 1981, when I was living at 159 Middle Street (here is another post about interesting goings-on there), P

Kongress Street

This, without Kong, was one of the earliest drawings I did of Portsmouth, in 1979 or 1980, as maybe you can tell by that car i

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Here’s the image from a card I sent out for Valentine’s Day 2007. Yeah, I know it’s not Valentine’s Da

New Year’s Card 2008

I sent this image out as a New Year’s Card for 2008: “Time to take down the lights.” I did the pen and ink d

New Hampshire Colonial State House

The old State House used to stand in the middle of Market Square, twenty or thirty feet in front of the front of the North Chu

Pease Air Force Base Entrance

Editor Dan Wise asked me to do the cover illustration for Business New Hampshire magazine’s July 1989 issue on PeaseR

Atkinson Street, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Here’s the view looking northwest up Atkinson Street, from Strawbery Banke out to State Street way in the distance. Thos

Thomas Bailey Aldrich House, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

I did this drawing in ink with a crowquill pen (which can be messy, but gives interesting thick or thin lines, depending on ho

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