Blog Archives: New Work
Sacred Vistas series for upcoming exhibit
Working hard getting work ready for an upcoming exhibit at the NAACO Gallery. This exhibit with the theme “Sacred Vessels & Vantages” opens Thursday, July 28th and runs through August. It is a two-person show featuring the work of ceramic artist Jessica Phillips and my watercolor paintings. For this exhibit, I’m creating a series of works which are literally vistas [...]
“On The Point” – New Watercolor Landscape Painting
This watercolor painting depicts the gradual and subtle changes that occur as winter changes to spring. During this time of the year the light is slowly becomes brighter and warmer, earth that has spent weeks under layers of snow begins to reappear and streams thaw and begin to visibly run at the surface again. This scene is late in the [...]
“End Of Season” – New Watercolor Painting
My latest landscape painting began as a demonstration for my current “Landscape Painting in Watercolor” class. The class focuses specifically on the most efficient and effective techniques needed for painting watercolor landscapes. Since the class is held indoors, we are working from photos. The two reference photos are shown below. In this particular class, we combined images from the two [...]
“Under the Canopy” – Plein Air Watercolor Painting
This painting began as a demo for my recent “Painting the Autumn Landscape” workshop, held last weekend. On Sunday, the second day of the workshop, we decided to set up on the grounds of the historic Park-McCullough House in North Bennington, Vermont. The grounds have many paintable scenes, but this one which included these three old trees attracted our attention. [...]
Plein Air Painting – “Armstrong Road”
Another painting done during the Billsboro Winery Plein Air Festival – and my personal favorite from the weekend.   For a plein air work, it is large – 14″ x 21″. Generally I work at quarter sheet size, or smaller, when I paint outdoors.  I chose a larger size for this work mostly because of the nature of the landscape. The [...]
“Lady in the Park” – New Plein Air Painting
This painting was completed during this weekend’s Billsboro Winery 3rd Annual Plein Air Festival and was awarded Third Prize in the Competition. The scene is the war memorial pool, fountain & statue, titled “Peace” in Pulteney Park, in downtown Geneva. I began the work early in the morning and wanted to capture the feel of the light on the statue [...]
New Plein Air Watercolor Painting – “Vents”
As sometimes happens when painting plein air, my recent Plein Air Workshop was visited by rain. As a result, this work which began as a class demo was done while I was sheltered just inside a door to the back deck of the Media Barn at Taraden Bed & Breakfast.  The view was of the next barn over and the [...]
New Painting – “Beached”
In my post on May 6, I mentioned that my usual landscape subjects were not inspiring me and that the my usual solution to lack of inspiration is to work on something new. At that time, I began working on a still life composed of wine bottles placed in front of my studio’s picture window.  At about the same time, [...]
“River Valley” – New watercolor landscape painting
4″ x 11″ Private Collection With out going into a lot of detail about why, part of my painting process often leaves me with odd shaped leftover pieces of paper. Many of them are in this “panoramic” format where one dimension is more than twice as long as the other.  The shape is well suited for a panoramic view of [...]
New watercolor painting – “Side Street”
12″ x 20″ This painting began as a demonstration painting created for the residents of Equinox Village in Manchester Vermont.  The scene is adapted from pencil sketches done on Cape Cod in the early 1990′s.   Though the sketches are older, the sense of place from that July morning has stayed with me. Although the Cape is a popular vacation area [...]
