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A Few Small Outdoor Sketches
May 4, 2015
North Sky. 6x4, oil on linen. 2015. Looking Towards the Catoctin Mountain. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2015. Trappe Farm Sketch. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2015. These are a couple of small studies done over the weekend from our back yard and one done on location at Trappe Farm in Upperville, VA. Worki...
One More Painting Out in the Back Yard
May 2, 2015
No Edges in the Sky. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2015 What a great day to be painting outside! Standing in the shade of a pine tree this afternoon I could only hear the sound of birds and someone in the far distance mowing their yard. The spring greens have arrived in full force and, as usual, it take...
Painting the Light (A Work in Progress)
Apr 19, 2015
Stoney Point. 14x18, oil on linen. 2015 WIP This is one of those paintings that sits in the studio for a long time while I chip away at it. What drew me in was the way the point of the roof looks against the light of the sky. Unfortunately I started without a clear focal point in the picture, a...
Fall at Oakland Green
Apr 16, 2015
Fall at Oakland Green. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015 In this painting I tried to capture the sense of fall by mixing all the colors with reds, oranges and yellows. The palette is phthalo blue, alizarin permanent, cad orange and cad yellow medium. This was based on some photos I took during a paint...
Hay Bales by Furnace Mountain
Apr 12, 2015
Hay Bales by Furnace Mountain. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 On the way home from a paint out last fall I stopped at the Point of Rocks boat ramp. Although nothing about the river caught my eye, on the way out I noticed a mowed field by the side of the ramp access road and felt it had some potentia...
Faraway Farm IV
Mar 20, 2015
Fields at Faraway Farm IV. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015. About 18 months ago I did a series of paintings at Faraway Farm near Upperville, VA. This week I revisited one of those plein air pieces and used it as the basis for a studio painting. To make it more interesting I re-imagined the compositi...