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The Wildlife Meadows at Innisfree
Aug 23, 2014
The Wildlife Meadows at Innisfree. 11x14 oil on linen panel. 2014. This is my fourth painting of the landscape at Innisfree Farm in Rectorstown, VA. I was intrigued by the way the light was coming through the big tree and the way it was set against the very background treeline. I used a color called...
Barns on Shelburne Glebe Road
Aug 23, 2014
Barns on Shelburne Glebe Road. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2014 I painted this small landscape with deliberately subdued colors and spent most of my time focused on the way the light wraps around the tops of the trees. There are a lot of architectural elements in the painting, but the way they a...
Clune Forest Sheep Update
Aug 20, 2014
Clune Forest Sheep and Barn. 24x30, oil on linen. WIP Here's an updated look at the painting of the sheep. At this stage it is almost complete, but I still need to do a bit of adjustment to some of the dark areas....
Plein Air at Silverbrook Farm
Aug 20, 2014
Silverbrook. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2014. This was done on location at Silverbrook Farm in Hillsboro, VA. I had a great perch from which to paint this scene, standing under a mature Norwegian Maple on the side of a hill which let me overlook the fields and valley....
Shelburne Glebe Revisited
Aug 12, 2014
Shelburne Glebe Meadows. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2014. Unable to go painting on location today due to the rain, I spent the day in the studio. After working on a commissioned work this morning, I decided to revisit the plein air painting that I did last week at Shelburne Glebe in Lincoln, VA...
Featherbed Lane
Aug 10, 2014
Featherbed Lane. 24x20, oil on linen. 2014. Although I've been planning this painting for a long time, the actual painting part went very quickly: I started this last weekend and, after letting it dry for a week, I did the finishing touches today. In preparation, I did a few pencil scribbles, follow...