Copy of messonier

Always enjoy his work, this was done just before x-mas for a cousin

Cloud study

A quick study from this past summer, looking out over the bay.

Civil War Drawing

This one was fun to do, good model and wonderful detail to his uniform, great!

Chalk Drawing

Have been spending the fall driving once a week to Alexandra, VA to take a drawing class and a painting class with Robert Liberace. This is a red chalk drawing on shellac prepared paper

Bethesda Row Arts Festival!

"Moving On" a new painting will be hanging in my tent at the Bethesda Row Arts Festival this weekend, October 15 & 16, look for me in booth 64E Elm Street. Will have 30+ paintings and lots of prints of my favorite subjects: the beautiful skies over the river marshes and farm fields of Maryland and, of course, horses & hounds!

Golden Afternoon

The evenings continue to show a wonderful gold light. Another 8 x 10

Evening Skies

This was a quick study of the skies over the hay fields. Cool, early spring with great clouds.

This is 8 x 10" oil on panel.

Late Winter

Really like painting the long shadows on the snow covered fields. This is small, 6 x 8", oil on panel.

Road home

Started this outside yesterday afternoon but it was too cold and I wasn't dressed for it. Many of the fields around here are carpeted in a purple flowered weed, chickweed I think. It turns brown pretty quickly but for a few days blankets fields in color. Did take a pic of before packing it in and gave it a three 20 min sessions this a.m.

8 x 10"" oil on board

Green Eggs

Always fun to paint eggs from Christina's hens. The shape of the right one is a little wonky but was a good morning exercise. Since I have gotten back here, seems I have only found time for morning exercises. Oh well, hopefully will be caught up enough to get a few things done later in the week, and not just laundry, however good it would be to get the washer fixed.

6 x 8" oil on board

self-portrait

Spent the previous weekend at a portrait workshop with the excellent painter & teacher, Rob Liberace. Years ago I studies for a winter under him working with three-color pencil. Part of this workshop was working first in burnt umber, burnt sienna and white, similar to the pencils. First morning home I worked on this, starting the first 20 min session in only burnt umber, second adding sienna and white, third & fourth session, tweaking a bit. Could do more, but will leave this one here

Aura & Behr, morning exercise

Was staying up in DC with Annie and this morning joined her at Joan's studio for morning exercises. Joan had set up this simple still life and we spent several 20 min sessions painting this, from about 7:30 to 11:30 am with breaks for coffee and stretching. It was a fun one to do. This is about 8 x 10" oil on paper.

Meissonier again

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier is one of my favorite painter of horses. Military scenes were something he was known for, which required knowing horses. I like his sketches best, have copied this one before and look forward to copying others.

12 x 16" oil on board

Snow Goose Down

From the series, the snow goose that fell from the sky last winter. Scared the dickens out of my old white horse and startled me, too. They are not as big as Canada Geese.

Morning exercises

Spent a few days with Annie in DC. Joined her and Joan for their morning painting exercises, several twenty minutes sessions with a still life. Spent two mornings with these colorful eggs. The twenty minute stints are a good exercise. It is long enough to allow some paint to be put down and check things, but not too long to get beyond help!.

Gray evening over long fields

Pretty much painted from the same viewpoint, only a few weeks later with snow

Two Hounds

Another syudy done on the natural linen, A nice surface.

Sunset over long fields

The view across the fallow fields down to the boat ramp

Two kenneled hounds

This one was fun to do. Used a panel with a natural linen on it

Sunlit shadows

Another painting a of light on the huntsman, his horse and hounds

fresh start

Have had the idea for this painting and another for awhile and had fun painting the white horse against the dark trees with the hounds sprinkled behind, just flashes of light following.

Snow geese in the corn

This is part of a series of paintings from images and thoughts of last years. Couldn't do them all then, will do them as I can from time to time. Not for any reason but for me, I'll post them from time to time. Only that one winter have I seen snow geese on the fields around here, and watching a cloud of them drop down to land and them disappear among the corn stalks was fascinating.