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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
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Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

Here’s a view of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Some kids came up while I was painting this and interviewed

What’s in a Title? Or, When Is a Title More than a Title?

Here are three of my pieces just installed at 100 Market Street, Portsmouth. On the left the viewer must feel the surface of t

Spotlight Outstanding Illustrator 2010

Earlier this year I was honored to receive the New Hampshire Spotlight Award for Outstanding Illustrator for 2010. Here is a v

Hosmer Garden Cemetery, York, Maine

The Kittery Art Association hosts a plein air session every Thursday night. I did this watercolor at that session last week, a

Dan and Holly Invite Us to Visit Mayto

Dan Gair and Holly Hunter invited Nancy, Zoe and I to visit their ranchito in the little seaside town of Mayto, Jalisco, Mexic

we’d like to hear them.

Illustrating Portsmouth on NH Chronicle

That’s myself and the Illustrating Portsmouth show on NH Chronicle. Jennifer Marchewka and WMUR Channel 9’s NH Chr

The Illustrating Portsmouth Opening Reception!

The Illustrating Portsmouth opening at the Discover Portsmouth Center, photo by Nancy Grace Horton  Almost 600 people came th

The Mermaid Felicia and Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse

Just last week I finished this drawing of The Mermaid Felicia and Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse. A big print will be on displ

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