Featured Work, Landscape Paintings, OS 2017, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
This painting is available. This painting was done during the Jehrico (VT) Plein Air Festival on July 16, 2016. The morning was quite overcast so there was little in the way of light and shadow to work with. On overcast days, I often look for water, since the...
Landscape Paintings, OS 2017, Uncategorized, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
Winter of 2017 has so far been warmer and less snowy than usual. The “warmer” temps have brought rain, instead of snow, which often turns to a glaze of ice over night. Such is the case this morning, as I set up on Harrington Road in North Bennington. The...
Landscape Paintings, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
This one really is just light and landscape. Painting what the sun leaves behind is often what en plein air painting is all about. Usually what’s left behind is something like this – long trails of alternating light, shade and shadow. This painting would...
Landscape Paintings, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
The biggest difference between winter en plein air and any other time, is how early the sun makes it’s presence felt. Although I was out right around 6am, the sun had already started to the tops the tallest trees and even managed to touch down here and there on...
Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
It’s the space in between that sometimes makes the composition. The fields could be the subject of this painting. But what makes them important is the separation that happens because of the weed and sapling filled gulley that runs around and between them....
Landscape Paintings, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings
Subtle light greens signal spring’s arrival. It’s often drama we want in our paintings. But it is subtlety that reigns in this scene. Bushes and shrubs line the bank of the Battenkill river. on this early spring day, their emerging buds gave them the...
