Study, Sweet Potato Farm

Study, Sweet Potato Farm, 5x7, oil on linen, $100, farm, landscape

Study, Sweet Potato Farm
5x7
oil on linen
$100

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Approach

Approach, 9x12, oil on panel, $700, landscape, skyscape, rain, thunderstorm, 

Approach
9x12
oil on panel
$700

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Autumns End

Painted this one afternoon in my mother in laws lawn. The lake is so beautiful and blue and I love the contrast between this blues and the oranges in those last leaves of fall. This painting will be used for s larger studio piece.

View From Mt. Battie

A quick sketch looking down on Camden, ME from atop Mt. Battie

A Stream Runs Through It

Did this piece at our RV campground near Bennington VT during OPA Nationals... I was late for the opening.

Vermont Stream

During OPA Nationals, I carved out some painting time between events to paint. This little stream was the subject of a couple of paintings. 

Down by the River

Experimenting on a wider surface than I am used to AND a new surface... Shellacked mohagany. I think I liked it... Trying some new Rosemary brushes to boot... SER 278

Sunset Dancer

I love to paint plein air because it is so relaxing, especially when I am out and there are no people around. That is my favorite. It can't always be like that, and usually when it is not... that's where the best painting stories come from.

This painting for example was painted within 10 minutes. The sun was setting rapidly in Costa Rica so I set up and was slashing color down when this American girl came up to me. She was working at the Adventure Camp and had served us the night before... but she did not recognize me. She had obviously been indulging in some of the native plants (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

We talked for just a minute as she realized I was with the group that had been there for a while, she thought we departed already. She told me she would love to be able to paint and thought she could pull it off. Good luck, I thought... it ain't as easy as it looks.

As we ended our conversation, which was basically her talking and me painting, she excused herself from the conversation stating that she did not want to disturb me any more. "How nice," I thought. I wish all onlookers were like that. I usually get stories about their aunt that was a painter or that they have a dog and would I like to paint said dog. I was impressed with her ability to recognize the importance of the moment and to excuse herself. We exchange pleasantries and she excused herself. What happened next was so funny that I could hardly contain myself and only wished I had witnesses. She literally stood right next to me in my peripheral vision, facing the same sunset I was and DANCED her weird Grateful Dead, Widespread panic, Phish dance. All I could think was, "didn't want to disturb me?" Luckily for me it started to rain, which chased the Sunset Dancer away and gave me a few more undisturbed moments to finish my last stokes with the knife.

Plein air is always interesting and I know that 10 days painting at the Forgotten Coast paint out next week will yield some great stories!

Sunset Dancer, 8x10, plein air, landscape, sunset, palette knife, $600, framed

Corcovado Beach

Drake Bay, Costa Rica, 8x10, oil sketch, plein air, landscape, palette knife

This is the first piece I did upon arrival at the Corcovado Adventure Tent Camp on Drake Bay in Costa Rica. It was hot... super hot and sticky and I did not have everything I needed. I had shipped tubes of extra color and OMS from Dick Blick to Costa Rica and they had not passed through customs at this point. I had to improvise with think paint and no thinner!

The Path

Just finished this commission for some of my collectors. It has been so long since I have done a landscape this large with a palette knife. I am very happy with the outcome!

Rise

Rise, oil on linen, framed, 8x10, $500

Daybreak at St. Mary's

Trapped in my classroom studio most days keeps me combing through old photos to paint from. This image was from a photo I took while out on a run last October in St. Mary's, GA. There is a great spot east of town where a paper mill used to be. Lots of good views.

Sunset on Lamar Potts Road

Daybreak

Playing with some new colors. I have always made my own violet, but started inserting dioxazine purple into my palette.  Makes a great green when you add lemon yellow... The more I paint the more I've found that you rarely use a mixed color out of the tube like dioxazine for purple, but for other mixtures.

Hidden

Hidden, 11x14, oil on linen, $625, palette knife, landscape, architecture, rural

While in Tennessee this summer, I had a friends father drive me around to show some places off the beaten path. I had driven past this tobacco barn a hundred time and had NO idea it was there.

Cross Road SOLD

Cross Road, 11x14, SOLD, oil on panel, landscape, palette knife, Thirty Days Downtown

Northbound SOLD

Northbound, oil on panel, 11x14, SOLD, palette knife, landscape, Thirty Days Downtown

Under LaGrange Street in the Fog SOLD

Under LaGrange Street in the Fog, 10x12, SOLD, oil on panel, palette knife, landscape,  Thirty Days Downtown

The New Space

The New Space, 8x10, oil on canvas panel, $400 framed, landscape, PBS

This is the first a series of paintings that you will see coming from me during the school year called PBS paintings, or Paintings Before School. I will be doing a lot of paintings before my school day starts. I don't have the same schedule I had last year that gave me an entire afternoon, from 12:30 until whenever every other day, in the studio. I do have a free block every morning and I will be doing a great deal of plein air work on campus and in downtown Newnan for another project I will tell you about later.

The school just put in a traffic circle or roundabout and it has open the campus up to a filed that I have coveted for years. It has been the subject of many foggy morning photos and paintings. I now have vehicular access to this field, although that comes with it's own curse, and will be able to paint it much more frequently. It will not continue to be a beautiful field as it will become a new road in the next few years. I will continue to immortalize it in paint and film until and through that day that the road goes in.

Sunflower Field

Sunflower Field, oil on linen, 12x16, $775, framed, landscape, sunflowers

Painter friend, Sue Christensen, invited me down to my old stomping ground in Gay, GA for a day painting at a private sunflower field. This was my best effort for the day.