"Vermont Vermillion"

My new painting that is going to be framed and delivered along with two others for the Bryan Gallery "From Farm to Table" exhibit which runs from May 5 to June 26 in Jeffersonville VT. The other two are animals and they are not of the feathered variety! I'll post those here in the next several weeks.

Swan pair

Posting a photo from my sketchbook of two swans and a glimpse of my "doctored" travel palette, which consists of multiple pans (half and full) from different companies. Plus I squeezed extra pigment in empty spaces where I think a small brush would normally live. How to maximize a small color footprint! 

Spring

Just a little glimpse of a sketchbook painting and some lettering I did on some clear plastic that I photographed so the letters cast the "Spring" shadow on my paper. This was another Kilimanjaro paper experiment.

Delphinium Dreams

New studio work...Delphinium inspiration...this was done on a square block of Fluid wc paper. It has different handling properties compared to the papers I am used to...but nonetheless a really nice surface to work on.

Go (ld) fish

A wee little fishy to brighten up a Monday morning with some warm orange colors.  

Sketchbook blooms

This 9x12 sketchbook bouquet was another Kilimanjaro paper experiment.  After a few of these I was getting the hang of the new to me watercolor paper.  Bright white and a nice textured surface...always fun to give something new a try..although tried and true is comforting we sometimes have to push ourselves to learn.

Strong light

These figure sessions I attend are mostly held in white walled rooms, but that doesn't keep me from inventing a background that wasn't there...like this deep green, which makes it look like she is a forest faerie! Plus it adds that element of complements when her skin tones and hair are on the orange spectrum...

Familiar subject

Back to doing some flowers in a new sketchbook that is filled with Kilimanjaro 140lb CP watercolor paper....I'm a bit unfamiliar with it, but trying to get a handle on it...experimentation..the word of 2016!

Portrait 2

Here is another from my Self portrait project...this one quite appropriate for the weather! I might start another themed journal like this one soon...it is fun to work towards a goal and to fill up those blank sketchbooks that are filling up my studio, because I can't seem to stop myself from buying them any time I see them! Large, small, thick, thin, square, hard bound, fancy, plain...you get my drift...anyone else have this obsession?

Small

Not a self portrait, but I will post another one next week...this is a morning sketch from my sketchbook using hooker's green...a small one, just 5" x 5".

Selfie

Not a watercolor today (although the under painting is wc)...but a color pencil study I did last year, when during the month of January I did a self portrait every day....simply as a challenge for myself...I varied the techniques and media used...all in one handy sketchbook...I'll post some more soon...

Lettering

Trying something new...shapes within shapes... This was fun and got me back to thinking florals and spring time...

Have a Baa-velous 2016

Wishing everyone a "Baa-velous" 2016. May it be filled with color, joy, peace, health and happiness!

Chick chat

I will be doing a demonstration at Frog hollow on Church Street in Burlington (VT) from 11-2 tomorrow (Sat. the 12th).  Painting with watercolors for a couple hours should be fun...if you are in the neighborhood stop on by!

Tough Guy

It has been some time since I posted a rooster painting...so here is one from a previous studio session.  This guy is definitely protecting his plot of farm land and looks to challenge anyone who wishes to dispute that! Or maybe he's just striking a pose to show off his multi hued plumes...

Portrait of a model

A portrait done in last night's figure session. Bold strokes, big highlights, blue hair.

Show opening

"It's a bird, it's a plane..." This is one of my figure paintings at my solo show at The Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Show opening today from 4-7 p.m.  Stop by, say hi, look at some art, have a snack plus enjoy a drive through the countryside to get there! "Flowers, Figures and Fowl" all represented.

"Hollyhock Highlights"

This is one of my new paintings that I dropped off at the Gruppe Gallery in Jericho yesterday for my upcoming solo show....September 3 to October 11...opening reception Friday September 11 from 4-7 p.m. Hope you can join us and say hello...I'll be there!