Color is Coming, 8”x10”, Oil on Canvas Monday, less than a week after I got my studio back and functioning, I put on my student hat again as my fall courses started. Tonight, I am putting on my teacher hat to get ready for the in-service days that precede the arrival of middle schoolers into… Continue reading Hat Season
Category: landscapes
Cast of One
Dead Heads, 8" x 10", Oil on Canvas Click Here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. This was the second of a pair of paintings that upended my outlook on landscapes. For the past few years I've been painting the scenes in Southwestern Vermont and Michigan, and it wasn't until… Continue reading Cast of One
Overcast
Overcast, 18"x 24", Oil on Canvas The punches of color are showing up more frequently along the southern Vermont roadsides, and this painting started as an attempt to keep the glory of late summer early fall in my head. Instead, on this last weekend, before school and graduate work, begin again, I found myself returning… Continue reading Overcast
Talking to Trees
Talking to Trees, Oil on Canvas, 24"x24" Click here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. The last few lazy days of summer, and right now, it’s the light and the lines of the trees that compel. There are some red hair in there, but mostly the mountains are a jumble… Continue reading Talking to Trees
Too Soon
Please contact me if you would like this painting to live on your wall. Too much rain has brought out the fall colors far too soon. They are just starting to peek through, and it would only have been noticed on a day like today when the sun makes an all too rare appearance for… Continue reading Too Soon
Hill Climb
Please contact me if you would like this painting to live on your wall. This past weekend Manchester/Sunderland, hosted the annual hill climb — a bottom to top tour of the Equinox mountain in Manchester, Vermont. The hitch is that all of the cars doing the climbing are classics, and none of them are equipped… Continue reading Hill Climb
Missing Michigan
Please contact me if you would like this painting to live on your wall. Too many things came up this summer, and we are missing seeing our family along the banks of Lake Michigan. I anticipated missing seeing parents and siblings, but I’m always surprised when I actually miss the violent storms that are a… Continue reading Missing Michigan
What Compels You?
At the Point, 14" x 14", Oil on Canvas Click Here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. I tried to paint a different spot in that creek the night before, with no success. I knew instantly why it hadn’t worked. I was trying to paint everything all at once, and… Continue reading What Compels You?
Winter Heat
Ice Jammed, 10"x20", Oil on Canvas Click Here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. Sometimes to help someone, you need to disconnect just enough from your empathy to keep the other person from the fog instead of marching into it holding their hand. I’ve had a few such cases at… Continue reading Winter Heat
Weird things
Morning Break, 10"x20", Oil on Canvas Click Here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. So I realize there’s this one--OK not only one – weird thing I do when I paint lately. I’m trying to get more into working in abstraction, and to “get in the mood“ for whatever try… Continue reading Weird things
Little Piggies
Passing By, Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10", Click Here if you would like this painting to live on your wall. While I’m working on art for art’s sake, by limiting myself to one art/craft fair for the summer. The unintended consequence of making art and not selling it is that you accumulate a fair… Continue reading Little Piggies
Where the Cows Are (usually)
Saturated, 8" x 10" I have never driven by this field once without marveling how Mother Nature makes such lovely compositions. I’ve painted the spot at least twice a summer for the last few summers, and it’s never the same view, never the same painting. Click Here if you would like this painting to live… Continue reading Where the Cows Are (usually)