Heaps of Windblown Dried Grasses at Christmas Cove (Landscape Painting in Pastel)
I liked how the directional lined grass marks in the foreground contrasted with the chunky rock marks in the distance.
I liked how the directional lined grass marks in the foreground contrasted with the chunky rock marks in the distance.
I love painting outside in the fall, and it is so fun to get to use my cadmiums! They’ve just done the haying the hill, so the field is bare. It’s the place to be but getting there is gorgeous too.
I set up right up close to this magnificent tree to paint the ancient trunk and the glorious back lighting.
Don’t you just love how dawn just spills over a hillside? You’ve just got to be up and out in order to see it.
Both of these are 11″x14″ and done in oil. Which one do you like best?
I’ve always loved that the Bible likens your soul to a “watered garden.” With all the rain recently, it was finally time to paint it.
I’ve been painting in the garden lately in oil. I’ve got several on the go, but this is the first one finished.
Don’t you love a road trip? I’ve been on many! Here is a abstract painting of one.
This painting is of early spring in Huntington, in a different color way that makes it look like out of a fairy tale.
The idea for this painting germinated from the intro to a favorite show All Creatures Great and Small, which traverses winding, hilly roads toward town and home. Here too in Connecticut roads are undulating and indirect, surrounded too by foliage and fields
I loved these sinuous roots over the rocks in the Cathedral Woods on Monhegan and I have seen them in many different types of light
To counter the oppressive darkness of the news, this new painting of mine refers to a phrase from Psalms 30:5: “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
While praying about Venezuela, I remembered this unusual sunset looking south over the gulf of Mexico from Corpus Christi after our nephew’s wedding.
I was thinking about the autumnal season of life, and how it is still glorious, interesting, strong, and dynamic – just gorgeous.
I’ve been looking closely at the brambled thickets and bracken here in the late fall.
Will you give this process a try?