Kid Stuff
Jan 21, 2016
Sea Study. 5x7, oil and cold wax medium on linen panel 2016 When I was 5 or 6 I went through a period of painting nothing but boats on the ocean, usually with a small island thrown in for good measure. I'm not sure why I felt this was such a compelling subject, but I suspect that it had something to...
Some Forgotten Studies
Jan 16, 2016
In my studio I have a stack of sketches and studies. It's essentially a pile of doodles and ideas, things that I've hung on to in the anticipation that they can eventually be turned into real paintings, or things that might be helpful as I work on something further down the line. I created these stu...
Clam Bay Studies
Jan 10, 2016
Clam Bay Study. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 This small study was a way to experiment with a different approach to the blue-gray colors of the seascape. Using a palette of black, alizarin and yellow ochre, I proved to myself that it's possible to paint the coastline without using a blue. &nbs...
Gloucestershire Old Spot
Jan 6, 2016
Gloucestershire Old Spot. 20x28, oil on linen. 2016 It's becoming a tradition that I start off the new year with a farm animal painting. In all honesty, I haven't seen any farm animals in Seattle yet, but I have enough reference photos from Virginia to let me do this for the next several centuries. ...
Capitol Hill Seattle
Jan 1, 2016
Capitol Hill, Seattle. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 This is the view from one of the windows in our apartment in Seattle, painted on a re-used linen panel that had been worn smooth by the sanding and re-priming. The abstract idea is a cityscape as a landscape: the field of buildings in place of a ...
Charcoal Sketch of a Gloucestershire Old Spot
Dec 31, 2015
Gloucestershire Old Spot. Charcoal on paper, 11x24 (approx). 2015. In this sketch I'm working on the layout for a painting of a pig I met at Ayrshire Farm in Upperville, VA. Sketching it out like this lets me see the image without any of the clutter in the photograph. The abstract idea is to have a ...