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Another go at the Duck
Jan 16, 2014
Duck - transparent oil on linen, 9" x 12". 2014 I recently painted and posted a painting of a duck, but I never really took to the painting. So today I started again with a different approach. This painting is done using transparent oil paint (i.e. I didn't use any white). Using this app...
Monochromatic Sketch - Waterford
Jan 10, 2014
Waterford House. 8"x6" Oil on linen. 2014 This sketch was done with Gamblin's Torrit Gray (2008 version, I think) and white. I wanted to see how this building looked in paint, but I found the actual colors a bit overwhelming. I premixed the paint into five piles, each a different values and la...
More Sketching
Jan 6, 2014
Sheep Sketch. 9"x 12", Oil on linen panel. 2013 With all the holiday commissions completed and delivered I managed to find time to work on some sketches, and studies for future paintings that may or may not happen. In the fall I spent one Sunday morning roaming around a sheep farm and I had some nic...
A Plein Air in Black and White
Nov 2, 2013
Stonehedge Antiques. 8"x6", oil on linen. 2013 The fact is that some paintings don't go as well as others. It was raining in Hillsboro, the light was dim, and I had spent an hour and a half painting a scene that looked like a brown mess. In frustration, I scraped the canvas, turned 90 degrees ...
The Rooster at George's Mill
Nov 1, 2013
George's Mill Rooster. 12"x9" oil on linen. 2013. I visited some local farms over the Loudoun Farm Tour weekend looking for some residents to paint. The rooster at George's Mill was molting and had lost most of his tail feathers so I sketched out a three-quarter view of him. I put most o...
Beans in the Belfry - A Black and White Oil Painting
Sep 11, 2013
Beans in the Belfry. 4x6, oil on linen. 2013. Black and white paint. This is a study I made of Beans in the Belfry, a coffee shop in Brunswick, MD, which is 5 minutes from my studio. I've been trying to paint this scene for a couple of years but I couldn't make it work. For this at...