Watercolor Sketch – Covered Bridge
4″ x 9″
$99
Since it has been non-stop snow here lately it has been hard to get outside for new material. In the case of this small watercolor painting, I went back to my sketch books. Covered bridges are plentiful in Vermont and are painted by many. It can be hard to take on a subject [...]
Gallery Exhibit – “”Fresh Paint, Hot Pots, Dressed Wood”
The latest exhibition of North Adams Artists Co-op continuing members’ latest masterpieces and the introduction of our newest members to the public. While “fresh paint” will fill the air with “just off the easel paintings”, “hot pots” will emerge from the kiln with surprises in store for both artist and viewer.
My watercolor painting “Calla Lilies [...]
"Barn Snowscape" – new watercolor landscape painting
“5 x 7″
This small work began as a study for a larger composition and took on a life of its own. The main challenge for this work and for the larger painting was in balancing the warm and cool areas and in unifying the colors. The background went in first with yellows, oranges and mixed [...]
“Rural Route” – watercolor landscape painting
“Rural Route”
5″ x 22″
This watercolor painting is unusual in several ways. It began as a warm up excercise using an oddly shaped leftover piece of watercolor paper and leftover paint from the mixing areas of my studio palette. Using a single brush for the entire painting – one of my favorite 1″ flats (Winsor Newton [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Winter Landscape
“Snow Cover Landscape”
5″ x 7″
$95
Having lived in Vermont for the past 20+ years has not made it easier for me to endure winter. It is long, cold and dark. Worse, there is usually not a warm spring with gentle rain and bright flowers as a reward. People from places that have warmer, or at least, [...]
New Autumn Landscape
“Golden Afternoon”
11″ x 15″
$425
This painting began as a way to experiment with a new color, Daniel Smith’s Quinacridone Deep Gold. My palette doesn’t change much in that I generally stick with colors and brands that I am used to, this one caught my eye while browsing the Daniel Smith catalog. Once the paint arrived, I [...]
New Sketch
This is a quick sketch of two of my wife’s watering cans done as a demo for a recent class. The cans sit on a table top and were catching the bright late summer light. The pattern of light and shadows caught the eye of one of the students so we used it as the [...]
New Work, Designing Winter
“Farm In Winter”
9″ x 12″
Don’t get the wrong impression, I am not pining for winter. Although I am not a winter sort of guy - I exist mostly indoors with a mug of hot tea not far away from December to April – there are many things that I find very paintable in the winter [...]
New Summer Work
“Along The Way”
9″ x 13″
Unframed
$235
It’s been almost two months to the day since the last post!? Summer is a busy season for me with exhibits, shows and fairs. The unfortunate reality is that actual painting time tends to get squeezed. I have been more productive lately, with a number of works in progress and [...]
New Work, Think Spring
March in Vermont is when you can begin to anticipate spring, although it is not guaranteed to arrive until May!. My Monday morning painting class is a group of ladies who are interested in subjects that are found in classical still life paintings – dishes, fruit, & flowers. Recently, we began painting a [...]