How many lighthouse do you know or have photos of that are painted red (the body of the lighthouse - not just the roof and trim and preferably not made of red brick)?

Looking at my photos, I have:

New London Ledge



Bloody Point Bar



I don't know if Sharps Island is red enough to be considered red - I don't have a good photo of it.

Seven Foot Knoll

my painting on one of our boat screens

Sombrero Key


Sandy Point

Wolf Trap


St. John's River (which I think is brick painted red)


Faro di Napoli (the same)



St. Petersburg Russia Rostral Column Lights



Jupiter (red brick)
Ponce Inlet (also red brick)
Currituck (ditto)

I love your painting of Seven Foot Knoll. How cool, and I would think pretty difficult on a screen.

The technique of screen painting is pretty simple really - it is a Baltimore folk art. You just paint both sides of the screen with white sign paint, and then draw your design on the screen with charcoal and paint it on (also with sign paint). The advantage is that with a painted screen, you can't see into the window in the daytime, but you can see out. So people in the row houses in Baltimore could sit in the window in the summer in their underwear and see what was going on and no one could see them. I've done lighthouses of the Chesapeake on the porthole screens on the boat.

This is the one I did of Sharps Island, but it was the first one I did and I have it listing about 15 degrees too much.



Sandy Point was another early one.



By the time I did Bloody Point Bar, I had gotten better at it.



Here's another red one from Kronshtadt Russia
Fort Nikolai Range Front



And this one in the same place is the Kronstadt Range Front over the fort

Is your avatar a screen painting in a porthole too? I had looked at it wondering. Are the screen paintings to the inside or outside of the boat? Does the air still flow through? Hope you don't mind the questions, but that is very interesting, beautiful...and practical.

Back to your original question...red lighthouses
Thimble Shoals (sorry its not a better picture)

and Newport News Middleground

Yes my avatar is a screen painting of Old Point Comfort. The paintings are on the outside of the screen.



From the inside it just looks like an ordinary screen. Yes the air still flows through




This is one of the square ports from the inside



and this is the outside



I took the pictures for the screens myself but I didn't like the way 7 foot knoll looks now - this was my photo



So I took a picture of the area where it was and put it in there.

I did the same with Cedar Point, which no longer exists at all except as a model