Good to be Outside Painting Again

Chilly here but the birds have returned and trout are rising. May is the best time of year to fish and paint, I've been doing both. This old farm house is nearby, it's an exercise in color temperature and value. Hoping this Spring finds you well! Thanks for stopping in.

Winter Ice and Snow

I admit to being a fair weather painter. Give me warm sun and I am happy. Winter color is more silvery to my eye and perhaps more true to natures outdoor light in general.
We've had some snow here and the collection of shapes behind some buildings really caught my eye.
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Creekside

We've returned from a painting workshop in Maine enjoying both sun and a little rain. The class of around 15 worked daily on the fundamentals of seeing. These were/are difficult exercises, but the ideas are important and continuing them will be useful.

 

 Large lobsters were consumed most evenings, but we left a couple for others. The art galleries in the area, which are numerous, also kept us busy. Fine to see such talent.

Fall has arrived here, this 9"X12" oil on board was painted along the Yellow Breeches Creek.  Thanks for looking in. 

 

 

Challenging Light

Seeing and painting the behavior of light and its effects upon local color is a great challenge. 

 

I painted this some time ago near our home in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.

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"Walk in Town"

I've painted outside often lately, every day in fact. Tree leaves are moving toward warmer colors and that is a favorite time of year to be working out of doors. Begun last week in a nearby town, this painting was finished in the studio. It was a bright day and I tried to get that. The figure is a friend who lives in the brick house.

 

 

 

"Walk in Town" 11"X14"

 

 

Summer Days

The beautiful greens of Pennsylvania summer, they're a challenge to paint from a couple of standpoints. To capture the lushness and variety of an August day without an overload of the color green is the sort of problem that makes painting interesting. Like every aspect of painting a balance is needed, and so the red flag.
This is "Patriot Shepherdstown" 16"X20", currently on view at the Cumberland County Historical Society gallery and shop at 33 west High St. in Carlisle Pa.
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Note: painting sold.

Angling...

            A favorite pastime of mine is angling with a fly. This painting is one of twenty five on view through July 2012 at the Cumberland County Historical Society gallery, 33 W. High St. in Carlisle Pa.

                                      "Western Cutthroat" 12"X16" Oil on Canvas