autumn | Vermont Watercolor Artist Tony Conner

“Fading Glory” – original watercolor landscape painting of fall in Vermont

Open Studio, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

“Fading Glory” – 11″ x 15″ The glory of fall in Vermont is hard to match, even if it’s fading. This painting started as a composition exercise and demonstration for a watercolor painting group. The idea was to use dramatic contrast to create light...

“Bend In The Road” – watercolor landscape painting with farm and fields

Landscape Paintings, Open Studio, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

“Bend In The Road” – 11″ x 15″ This is a studio painting depicting a country landscape with farm fields and fall foliage. The main subject is actually the light. In this case it’s that cool autumn light that creates terrific light-dark and cool-warm...

“Banks of the Walloomsac” – light and atmosphere in late autumn

Landscape Paintings, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

“Banks of the Walloomsac” – painting is 7 1/12″ x 11″ Sometimes it pays to look the other way! This small painting was done as a distraction from another en plein air painting underway at the same time. I ventured down to the Walloomsac...

“Old Depot Road” – afternoon light on the first day of autumn

Landscape Paintings

On a morning that offered dense fog followed by brilliant sunshine, it was hard to know what to expect for the afternoon. It turned out to be what it often is on autumn afternoons – bright sunshine and long shadows. The two morning paintings were scenes of...

“Marsh Morning” – en plein air landscape painting

Landscape Paintings, VT Landscape Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

September 23rd, 2015. The day of the Autumnal Equinox. This painting is one of three paintings done that day. This is the second one, done after dense fog had burned off the marsh area. The sun was bright but still low in the sky. It cast lots of shadow onto the trees...