Saturday, December 24, 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Civil War Drawing

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

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

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.



Monday, April 4, 2011

Late Winter

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

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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

Monday, March 21, 2011

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.

Monday, March 14, 2011

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

Monday, March 7, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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!.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Friday, February 4, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011

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.

Friday, January 7, 2011

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.