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Catoctin View Lane
Jul 26, 2014
Catoctin View Lane. 10x8 oil on linen panel. 2014. This is a roadside scene just around the corner from our house, along the back road into our neighborhood. I pass it all the time and thought the look of the dark mass against the light mass would make an interesting sketch. I saved the thicke...
Studies based on a scene from Copeland Farm in Hillsboro, VA
Jul 19, 2014
In July I painted at a plein air session at Copeland Farm in Hillsboro, VA. The painting didn't survive once I got back to the studio, but I was interested in understanding how I could have approached it differently so I resurrected its basic elements in a series of studies: 1. I tri...
Study for Featherbed Lane
Jul 19, 2014
Featherbed Lane Study. 10x8, oil on linen panel. 2014 This is a small study I did in advance of trying to tackle a larger (24x20) painting of the same scene. I wanted to see where the main stumbling blocks were going to be and get a feel for the overall difficulty of the painting. Now that I have it...
Phillips Farm at Waterford
Jul 9, 2014
Phillips Farm. 8x10 oil on linen panel. 2014. Another small painting that I worked on over the weekend. I've been sitting on some photos I took at Waterford for a couple of years now and finally decided to use some of them as the basis for a painting. I pushed the treeline high up in the...
More Wheat Fields near Mountville, VA
Jul 9, 2014
Wheat Fields at Groveton II, 9x12 oil on linen panel. 2014 I painted this over the weekend just to give myself the chance to play around with a few ideas and techniques. In particular, I tried to keep the painting as loose as possible. The look of the wheat in the distance suggested a more exaggerat...
Wheat Fields at Groveton Farm
Jun 26, 2014
Wheat Fields at Groveton Farm. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2014 After a near sell out weekend with the Western Loudoun Artist Studio Tour I ventured out again on Tuesday with Loudoun Sketch Club to do some painting on location at Dresden Farm in Middleburg. I was excited to find that their hay fields ...