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!

Bittersweet Arrival...

Glad to have been accepted to OPA Regional last year with the piece, Good Morning, Sun, but I am always a little disappointed when a piece does not sell. I have amassed a small collection of my show pieces that I will keep forever, but I cannot keep them all. This one needs a new home. Good Morning, Sun is custom framed, 24x30in in size and available for $2100, shipping included. Please pass this along to anyone who may be interested.

Good Morning, Sun, oil on canvas, 24x30in, custom framed, $2100, transportation

Low Tide, Playing with the Palette Knife

Low Tide, oil on canvas, 16x20in, $1000

Been working very hard to try to marry my aggressive impasto, brushwork and knifework from the studio into the open air. I set up my Glouchester style easel and used a handheld palette and palette knife to see how quickly I could turn out a 16x20. I want to work larger outdoors but also want it to look more like what I do in the studio. I don't want to spend hours upon hours outdoors working on a large piece, I want to rock it out in a couple hours and be done with it. We will see how it works...

Frank's Red Hot 297 SOLD

4 1/2 Street Inn, 234

Sometimes when painting under duress, you make mistakes. I did this piece late in the day, before a dinner reservation and without too much thought. I wanted to get the light at the end of the day before it changed too much without much consideration for the background. I don't do too well under pressure!

This is the truck at the Inn that i fell in love with. I got great pictures of it, but my painting left me feeling a bit flat... I need to change the background a bit.

This piece was also painted on a red background...

Marlboro, 212

"Hey, smoke up Johnny..."

John Bender

Lamar Potts Barns 164

I really like this piece, the sun was coming up and the hills in the back ground were lit and the sides of the barns I could see were darker than the hills, it was beautiful.

Barn, Luthersville Road 080

I was on my way home yesterday and I passed some of my painter friends on the side of the road, Dana Johnson and Elsa Sibley. They were painting this beautiful old farmhouse on the way to Luthersville. It was great to see them and talk about getting together to paint. It also got my juices flowing to do some small landscapes. I couldn't get out yesterday because it was dark by the time I settled in, but I had taken some pictures on my way home that I could work on. Dana and Elsa are amazing plein air painters, I love their work and I am excited about being able to paint with them later this summer when I don't have to work everyday! I have a link to Dana's blog on my blog and Elsa's work can be seen at Flint Gallery and Huff Harrington Gallery. You can see Dana's work at Flint Gallery and The Dogwood Gallery.

Pink Roses 075 SOLD

Jules has the uncanny ability to go out in the yard gather a few things, throw them in a jar... and they are beautiful. She could arrange burned twigs, pine straw and poison ivy and make it look beautiful. Granted, these are roses in a jar, they were eye catchingly and beautifully simple. I meant to paint them yesterday, but I didn't get to them until this afternoon. The petals had started to drop, and of course, that made me mad... until I realized that it made for a much more interesting piece. I was afraid I had lost this one as well, all the values were very light, and for the first time in a long while, I actually felt strange and uneasy in front of the easel. It all worked out, like it usually does, and I was very happy with the outcome.

Kentucky Lake Cedar 012

This piece was inspired by a picture I took while walking the shore line of Kentucky Lake after doing some geocaching with Jules. It was just hanging there, growing out of the shore on the upper water line where the water is during the warm months. It was beautiful and crooked and growing in such a strange direction.

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Stand of Pines in Mud 003

This piece was done while away last weekend. Still experimenting with different monochromatic color schemes lead me to use these warm grays. Technically, is is the mud that is made from scraping my palette, mixed together and tubed. I like the colors of this piece, but the value of the sky is too light. This is a study, look for a larger piece with a darker sky!

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