Watercolor Beginners Weekend Class
Although perceived to be a difficult medium, watercolors’ unique working characteristics and unique working process are easily learned. Whether you are a beginning watercolor painter, or have worked with the medium for some time but still find the medium difficult, this class is for you. The weekend long class will teach the techniques required for [...]
“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 [...]
New painting – “Glass On Glass”
What, then, to do when the usual subjects are not inspiring me at the moment? The solution generally is to do something different. In this case placing a group of wine bottles in front of my studio’s picture window with the intention of painting some compositions. This work “Glass on Glass” is the first painting [...]
Open Studio Weekend 2010 – May 29 & 30, 2010
Most Vermont craftspeople work in studios located in or close to their residences. These are places of production and inspiration located in downtowns as well as at the ends of dirt roads. Wherever their locations, they are exciting places to visit because they reflect the dynamic yet organized process that is used to produce the [...]
Upcoming Watercolor Class – “Creating Watercolor Paintings from Your Photos”
Creating Watercolor Paintings From Photos. Tuesdays, May 4 – May 25, 6:00 – 8:30pm. Digital cameras make it easy to catch interesting scenes, fleeting light effects and snapshots of paintable scenes that you don’t have the time to paint. Simple design principles will help in turning reference photos into terrific watercolor paintings In this class, [...]
Upcoming Watecolor Painting Class
Creating Watercolor Paintings From Photos. Tuesdays, May 4 – May 25, 6:00 – 8:30pm. Digital cameras make it easy to catch interesting scenes, fleeting light effects and snapshots of paintable scenes that you don’t have the time to paint. Simple design principles will help in turning reference photos into terrific watercolor paintings In this class, [...]
Shade into Light
On Tuesday, I posted a new painting, “Side Street”, which began as demonstration painting. The post is long and covers the composition and color choices made while painting the demo. What was left out of that post was any discussion on another question that came up during the demo and which I have been thinking [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Covered Bridge
4″ x 9″ Private Collection 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 [...]
“Just Desserts” – Art Exhibit, North Adams Artists’ Cooperative Gallery
Exhibit on view from February 25 to March 22, with an Opening Reception which is open to the public on Thursday, February 25th, 5-7 pm Just Desserts: the sweet and not-so-sweet juried art exhibition featuring fine art and fine craft created by its members and nonmember regional artists. As the title of the exhibition suggests, [...]
New Watercolor Painting – Early Winter Landscape
“Light Dusting” 10″ x 14″ This scene could depict either the early time of winter when light snows begin to cover the fields, or late winter when the snow cover is receding. The title gives a hint that it is early winter and in fact that time of year is the inspiration. Unlike most of [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Watercolor Sketch – Winter Landscape
“Snow Cover Landscape” 5″ x 7″ Private Collection 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 [...]
“Farmyard” – New Watercolor Landscape Painting
“Farmyard” 9″ x 13″ This is one of what I often describe as one of my “drive by” paintings. Most of my paintings are the result of series of sketches and studies that culminate in a so-called finished painting. Sketches completed on location are usually the starting point in this process, and I very much [...]
"Woods Edge – Afternoon" – watercolor landscape painting
5″ x 7″ Private Collection This small painting begun as a quick sketch study for a larger watercolor work. The painting itself has a nice feel on its own and so became a more finished work. This and other works on this site are available for purchase. Contact me if you have an interest in [...]
“October Leftovers” – New Autumn Painting
“October Leftovers” 10″ x 14″ Another painting of the autumn season. The look of moving water reflecting the colors of the environment around it has become a new inspiration for my work recently. Like “Late Autumn – White Creek“, this painting features a stream and its banks, along with the trunks of the trees near [...]
New Painting Depicting Autumn
“Late Autumn – White Creek“ 11″ x 15″ Private Collection The change of season from summer to fall to winter is rapid and dramatic from late September through late October. I have several works that explore this theme currently underway. This is the first of the works to be completed. More to come.
New Autumn Landscape
“Golden Afternoon” 11″ x 15″ 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 [...]
Vacation sketches
Family takes priority during family vacations, so I sketched and painted less than I might have. Still, I was able to get some work done on our recent trip to Hilton Head. Living in New England means that I have very little opportunity to see and paint trees from the southeast. Trees are a favorite [...]
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
“Cape Ann Walk” 9 x 13 This work began as a demo for my Cape Ann Workshop, which took place June 22 – 25, 2009. Unlike most of my work, this one began using a reference photo taken by one of the students. The photo depicted a gray, rainy day on which a few brave [...]
Open Studio Weekend
Vermont’s natural scenic beauty is enhanced each spring when the work of Vermont artists and craftspeople can be seen firsthand during Vermont’s 17th annual Open Studio Weekend May 23-24. My studio will be open from 10am – 5pm both Saturday and Sunday, May 23 & 24. I’m looking forward to again welcoming visitors my studio, [...]
New Work – Thinking of Summer
Officially out of winter mode – my latest work is pictured below. This work was inspired by a few things; a simple demo for one of my classes on creating rather than using tube grays, making plans for a summer class at the coast, and a simple sketch found in one of my sketchbooks. ”Sunrise” [...]
The End of Winter
This is my last winter painting for the year. This one, titled “Late Winter”, is from a real location near White Creek, NY and was drawn in a sketchbook some years ago. The painting is imbued with the feeling of late winter. Generally, March is the time when fields begin to emerge from under 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 [...]