Post card design for Versailles Farm. A beautiful local farm in backcountry Greenwich. Amazing fresh produce and the loveliest people imaginable. So happy to be able to do their “We are Open” announcement this year.
Yellow Sky
Acrylic on wood panel. 16 x 16
Continuing Maine series
Exploring Maine memories - the trip to the lake, the tiny islands and always the light Acrylic on wood panel, 16 x 16"
Back at the Lake
Continuing with the Maine series. Another lakeside view with more autumn color. Acrylic on wood panel 16 x 16".
Maine Coastal
Inspired by a wonderful weekend in Maine. Coastal landscape, acrylic on wood panel. 16 x 16 "
San Ildefonso Pueblo and Black Mesa
A week ago we were in New Mexico. We visited San Ildefonso Pueblo, just outside Santa Fe, one cold, windy afternoon. Luckily it was one of the days when it did not snow. The pueblo is famous for its beautiful black pottery. Hand built rather than thrown on a wheel and polished by stones. The clay is dug locally and fired in the traditional manner of the pueblo, using animal dung for fuel. Dwarfing the pueblo is an enormous rock structure, "Black Mesa", almost a guardian spirit. It seems alive, the colors change with every shift of shadow. Go on a cloudy day. Journal pages, watercolor.
Pueblo, after a little more work
Getting close to being finished. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 ". Pueblo patterns of light and shade.
Pryor Park
Pryor Park, Bath. Brown ink over gesso. Journal page .
Rainy Day
A wet, late March sort of day. Watercolor and colored pencil over gesso.
Stuck Inside
Yet another snow day. The longest Winter. Having spent part of the day shoveling I decided it was time to a quick, summery landscape to remind myself that sometime soon I will be back walking on the beach..... Acrylic. 12 x 12.
Chinese Landscape Painting
I had planned to be done with snow but this winter had other plans.....A landscape based on a painting, " Calm Snowy World, White Sky" by Hong Yuzi, 1753, which in turn was based on a painting in the seminal work, "The Mustard Seed Garden", A treatise on Chinese landscape painting, from 1679. Double page journal spread, watercolor, depicting our home in the Mianus river valley. Meanwhile we are in the midst of what looks to be the worst snow storm of the entire winter.
River Trout
Looking across the river on a grey Fall day one might, if very lucky, spot a leaping trout. They are not easy to see. Sketch book page, watercolor.
In the shade
Sunday, a quick study of a clump of trees. Oil on panel, using a mid green toned background.
Last day - from the train window
The last in this series - from the train window. Storm moving in.
Day 8. Swollen river, Vermont
Day 8, Swollen River, Vermont. A glimpse between trees of a very high river after heavy rain. Oil on board. Painted with just 2 minutes to spare.
Day 7, A rainy night in the Mission
Day 7, A rainy night in the Mission, San Francisco. 90 minutes is not proving long enough. Oil on board, 11 x 14". I could definitely use some help from Hopper here. May have to go back to this one.
Day 6 Cathedral Rocks, NM
Day 6. Cathedral Rocks, NM. Oil on board. One hour and 37 minutes but I just had to finish.
Day 5. view from the window.
Day 5. Not so pleasing, maybe the size was just too small. a tiny landscape of the English countryside. Clearly I will have to keep practicing....
Day 4. The Lollipop Walkway
Day 4 - The Lollipop Walkway. Photo and memory of a beautiful garden in Hudson, New York. painting from dark to light. Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 "
Day 1. Orchard.
Summer camp finished last week so now I have a week off to finish lots of small but needful projects. With just a week at my disposal I decided to try to do a painting a day, limiting myself to a maximum of 90 minutes on any one picture. Mmm we shall see how long this lasts, especially as day 1 is a sort of cheat since I am reworking a similar painting I did earlier this year that was not working for me. but at least I stuck to the time limit. The goal is to get more comfortable working with oils. Orchard, oils, 8 x 10"
