Elvan Road Study
May 25, 2015
Elvan Road Study. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2015 This is a driveway off one of the many unpaved back roads around our town which I had not traveled until recently. The broken concrete driveway created a strong contrast with the dark greens of the grass and made a great lead-in to the focal point. I w...
Blue Ridge Leader Article
May 24, 2015
Earlier this month a nice article written by Andrea Gaines appeared in the Blue Ridge Leader (a local Loudoun County, VA newspaper). This is a link to the online version:http://brleader.com/?p=17075...
Nimrod
May 20, 2015
Nimrod. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015 It doesn't start to feel like spring until I have a couple of rabbit paintings under my belt. This is one that was hanging around in our garden the other day. His ears looked like they had been nibbled by his mom when he was a youngster, so I gave them some pa...
Turbulence
May 18, 2015
Woodgrove Meadows. 8x6, oil on linen panel. 2015 The sky was cloudy and a storm was starting to develop at our first day of painting at Woodgrove Meadows last year. I tried to convey a sense of the turbulence and heaviness of the sky in this small sketch. The sky was painted with some restraint at f...
North Sky (Large)
May 13, 2015
North Sky (Large). 10x8, oil on linen panel. 2015. Two scraped-off paintings in a row shakes an artist's confidence. Determined to avoid strike three, today I pulled out a small plein air study and painted a larger version of the thing. For a fresh look, I limited the working time to about the same ...
Warm Morning Sky
May 12, 2015
Warm Morning Sky. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2015 Today's paint out with the Loudoun Sketch Club was back to Trappe Farm in Upperville, VA. Before starting a larger work (which didn't turn out well) I did a small "warm up" painting to try and capture a feeling of the warm sky in the east. ...