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Waterford Gardens
Jun 8, 2014
Waterford Gardens. 12x16 oil on linen panel. 2014. I've been working on this painting for a the past month and consequently it has a thicker paint layer than usual. My starting point for this painting was a plein air study that I made a few years ago, however, in a more recent photograph I not...
A Few More Sketches and Studies for the Studio Tour
Jun 6, 2014
I've been prodigiously busy this week so I'm going to spare the effort of writing a separate post for each painting and, instead, group a few together. All the paintings will be for sale at stop #4 on the WLAST tour. Barry. 8"x6", oil on linen panel. 2014. I painted this small picture of Barr...
Rams Head
Jun 3, 2014
Ram's Head. 11x14, oil on linen. 2014 A new sketch portrait which will be for sale at the Western Loudoun Artist's Studio Tour in June. This ram is one of several I found at Willow Hawk Farm in Lovettsville. Like the sheep portrait I painted at the end of last year I decided to paint thi...
Painting on Location in Waterford, VA
May 14, 2014
Talbot Farm I. 9" x 12" oil on panel. 2014 This is the first outing of the season for our local group of plein air painters. I decided to attempt a painting of the barns and it proved to be a challenging scene as the sun was partially towards me, something I usually try to avoid. I also w...
Meadow Grove Farm - A Limited Palette
May 5, 2014
Meadow Grove. 11" x 14" oil on linen panel. 2014 I'm gearing up for the first of my summer shows: Upperville Stable Tour, over Memorial Day weekend and the Western Loudoun Artist Studio Tour the third weekend in June. This latest painting is a landscape that I've been contemplating for a coupl...
Chicken Thursday
Apr 10, 2014
Chicken Thursday. approx. 16" x 16" oil on linen. Unmounted. 2014. The latest painting off the easel. It is currently unmounted so there are a few natural hills and valleys in the surface of the linen which you can see in this image. This is one of the chickens I photographed last weekend at G...