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New Plein Air Oil Painting: Morning on Chaffinch Island
I enjoyed painting this on location on Chaffinch Island in Connecticut with a limited palette.
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Henry Isaacs / Ashley Bryan Workshop Notes
A powerhouse group, their advice was gentle and encouraging, freeing and supportive, and blissfully without prescription. If I taught,...
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Two Islesford Apple Trees I Painted
Since it was foggy during the workshop, I did not paint any grand vistas as I expected, but instead...
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Two Plein Air Pastel Paintings Done on Echo Lake Beach
I really enjoyed painting on location in this lovely setting on Echo Lake Beach in Acadia National Park in...
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Two Recent Plein Air Pastels
The paint above was done from Chaffinch Island in Guilford, Connecticut. I was attracted the the intensely vibrant greens...
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Same Scene: Four Sketches and Two Paintings
He is trying to get us to paint quicker and to be "less precious" about it, trying different things....
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New Painting: Blooming Crabapple in Evening Light
Here is the painting I did this week of a crabapple tree about a block from our house captured...
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Two Early Spring Plein Air Oil Paintings
I've been painting outside a couple times here this spring before the weather turned cold and rainy.
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Two Abstract Pastel Landscapes
This pastel that I did plein air last fall is titled In the Presence of Swans, and the other...
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Featured Artist: Rick Stevens
This time of year, when there are just a few leaves left on the trees, reminds me of the...
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Notes from Richard McKinley’s Pastel Workshop
You can see here the notes I took for the class, preserved both for my reference and yours.