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 [...]
"Barn Snowscape" – new watercolor landscape painting
“5 x 7″ Private Collection 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, [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
New Painting Celebrates the Change of Season
“Equinox Road” 20″h x 27″W This work is available – contact me for more information This work, with its final details and adjustments made only a few days ago, represents the final statement of a series of explorations in paint. It’s title, as well as the painting itself is more metaphorical than literal. The idea [...]
New Watercolor Landscape in Winter
On January 23, I left a post about a new work that was on the board. That post was a somewhat detailed description and illustration of the process of creating a new painting. It included a number of sketches, both in pencil and in watercolor. Well, the work is finally finished and is presented below [...]
My Painting Process Illustrated
There is a new watercolor painting “on the board”, as I like to put it. The paintings that I create in the studio are stretched on gator board, so anything that I am currently working on is “on the board”. While the painting is not complete, I often get asked about the process creating a [...]