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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...
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. ...
Barn Cat
May 7, 2015
Barn Cat. 12x9, oil on linen panel. 2015. Composition and palette are fundamental elements of my work. Today I revisited an older painting that I thought would benefit from a different approach to both. The original panel was divided into a light half and a dark half. The barn door in shadow be...
The View from Trappe Farm
May 5, 2015
The View from Trappe Farm, 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2015. The first official paint-out of the season with Loudoun Sketch Club was a warm day. I found a nice location up the hill which had a view across the whole of the Loudoun Valley. After first doing a small color sketch of the same scene I...