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East South East
Jan 25, 2014
East South East 2. 8" x 6", oil on linen panel. 2014 The evening sky seen from our back yard looking toward the Catoctin mountain. We get some amazing views of the sky in the fall and winter, but I rarely get the chance to paint them....
Dusk
Dec 28, 2013
Dusk. 20"x16". oil on linen. 2013. This is one of the most challenging commissioned paintings I've ever accepted. It was being given as a holiday gift and was a surprise for the recipient. I was given a brief description of what the customer wanted (a dog walking down a path towards ...
Another landscape with reworked sky
Dec 8, 2012
This is another landscape study with a re-worked sky. I broke up the flat expanse of blue sky by adding in some cloud formations which were there in real life, but had been omitted when I first painted this scene. The underlying gradation of value and chroma in the sky gives a very reali...
Landscape study
Dec 8, 2012
This is a study for a larger painting which is currently on display and for sale at Hillsborough Vineyards until the end of 2012. Originally painted with a flat grey sky, I used the same technique as in the previous post and scumbled some light, warm grey into the sky around the center of interest. ...
Painting clouds
Dec 7, 2012
My efforts to paint cloud formations have met with very mixed results over the years. They often end up too heavy or, worse still, muddy. With this study I set out to paint something more like real cloud formations. I painted the whole sky over with a thin layer of mid-tone grey mixed wit...