I WORK EN PLEIN AIR, OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE… Welcome. I am back to painting again after a sabbatical that included a few pieces done for charitable fund raisers. I am continuing to make small, 6" x 8", landscape oils, but not every day. I am also working on larger pieces. Every time I finish a painting, I will place it here on my website. If you see something you'd like to purchase, email me. Thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new pieces. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter. Sign up for my emails and I will send you an image of each new painting. I love to paint and am happy to share my painting experience with you. Most of my work is impressionistic landscape oils, inspired by the beauty of the Island of Martha's Vineyard where I live.
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“Water Tower Sky”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
I wasn’t going to paint today…getting ready for my show Saturday at Flavors From Afar at 6712 Snyder Plaza in Dallas, TX, 214-696-2327 but when I went for my walk this afternoon there was this sky waiting for me. So, no walk!…
“Comanche Peak”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I had to get out of my studio to paint today. It was 81 and a beautiful day. Suggestions had been made to paint Comanche Peak as it is the commanding presence above Lake Granbury for 10’s of miles around. I found a spot in a school parking lot which was far enough away and high enough for a great view. As the sun began to set, the colors came out and shifted into this wondrous collection of tones and values…
“Winter’s Stack”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.
I was out and about counting birds for The Great Backyard Bird Count when I stopped to write some notes. I looked up. Here were the hay rolls all stacked up for the winter feed source. The sun was kissing the edges to give great drama to the hay against the darker shadow side of the old barn. This was a race to the finish as sun slipped in and out of a receeding cloud bank before the final set a half hour later. Working on into the after light I was treated to a most spectacular afterglow from the under bellies of the clouds…
“Ruminating”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
The cattle rancher pulled out about 5 hay rolls for the live stock today. I couldn’t resist doing this painting after my afternoon walk through the pasture and seeing the lighting and positioning of this roll and cow…
“Old Texas Disappearing”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. This painting has SOLD.S
Finding old stone or adobe buildings to paint are getting harder to locate as they are replaced with metal buildings…
“Cowtown”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
It is stock show time in Fort Worth at the moment. I have never seen so many shampooed, brushed, combed and cleaned cattle and pigs before in my life. Wilber would be proud. It took a while to find a quiet corner with some live stock already in place for me to paint. These critters did a good job of it for me…
“On The Hillside”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
The shadows were great tonight. They hold longer and stronger on a western sloping hill at sunset than on flat terrain…
“My Back Yard”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
Sunset with the sun to my back in the barnyard at home. The cattle hadn’t seen me painting in their field in 6 months. They all had to huddle around me as I worked. Other wise I would have painted one or two into this scene…
“Church, Dynamite Shack”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
Another view of the dynamite shack, up on the hill…
“The Dynamite Shack”, this is a Small painting, 6″x 8″, oil on canvas panel. $750.00 US
Most of the settlement of the Terlingua Ghost Town, when the mines were operational, happened in, around and below the area where the church is. The dynamite was kept up above and away from the living areas in that little shack up on the hill. I suppose being out there and so visible was a deterrent to any accidents or would be saboteurs…