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Tuesday's Plein Air at Innisfree Farm
Jun 17, 2014
Innisfree III. 8x10 oil on linen. 2014 Plein Air This Tuesday's outing with Loudoun Sketch Club was back to Innisfree Farm in Marshall, VA for the second week. We had a great tour of the farm in the back of a 4x4 and I got the chance to see the inside of some Purple Martin nesting boxes. This ...
Sunday Morning in the Studio
Jun 15, 2014
Innisfree Sketching: 8x10 oil on linen. 2014 For the past 6 weeks I've been getting in the studio every day at 6AM. I have 20 paintings ready to go for the WLAST studio tour and one delivered to Cooley Gallery in Leesburg, VA. With some inventory ready for the tour, this morning I felt I could affor...
Painting on Location in Marshall, VA
Jun 10, 2014
Innisfree Farm. 9x12 oil on linen. 2014 I spent this morning standing in the middle of a field at Innisfree Farm in Marshall, VA. It started out quite cloudy and overcast but by the time I was half-way through the painting the sun had come out. I laid this one down fairly quickly and did...
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...
A Sketch Portrait of Shakespeare the Cat
May 29, 2014
Shakespeare. 8x10, oil on linen. 2014 Last weekend one of the patrons at Upperville Stable Tour asked me if I ever painted portraits of cats. In truth I paint about 30 dogs for every cat I attempt, although I'm not sure why there is such a great imbalance. After dwelling on this for a few days I dec...