Spring at Last!

First day of spring break and the boys got to go painting with me.  Not too much of a hardship, it was glorious at the beach, and they found plenty to do.

After some adjustments at home...I added a red wing blackbird that I saw today.

                                          oil, 8x10"

At the Dock

Silver Lake in Barnard, Vermont.  One of my favorite places with my favorite people.

                                           Oil, 12x12"

Day Two at the Lake

It's not really the same lake, but what the heck.  Value study of wet kid in a lake on a sunny day.

Day One at the Lake

I'm on a painting-the-kids kick again.

Point No Point

Painting the lighthouse at Point No Point, another REALLY cold day, but the sun was out!

Indianola Part II

Yesterday's painting from Indianola beach again.  I must have just turned slightly from my spot the day before, because my paintings almost fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.  Not planned, but cool!

Indianola Beach

Yesterday's painting from Indianola beach.  I had to leave after an hour and a half, because the dog got too cold.  She needs to toughen up if she wants to be my painting companion.  She would probably rather stay home on the couch.

Rutland Tracks

This is a 6" VT landscape.  An exercise in simplifying a complex scene.  I found the little frame at an antique store here, $2 for 2 frames.  

Jim by a Blue Chair

I painted this yesterday from a photo taken four years ago.  The boys are almost old enough to sit for paintings, with "incentive" of course.

Sam, a Cat, and Anders Zorn

My attempt at painting Sam using Zorn's palette, black, white, yellow ochre & red.

Feeling Blue

Newest little house in my little house series.  

Pink House in the sun.

Another Bremerton house.  It's raining and grey today, nice to paint sun.

The Wrong Fruit

First still life of 2013!

Two Pitchers, Two Pears

My still life attempt yesterday.  Trying to be loose, but still fussing with the edges too much.

Persimmons & Coffee Pot

Robin Weiss is an incredible painter whom I have been lucky enough to get some lessons from recently.  I did this painting during one of those lessons after he did a demo of the same setup.  It was great fun to paint, and a revelation for me in paint handling methods.  Check out Robin's amazing work on his blog inpleinair@blogspot.com.

Missing spring.

Our yard rabbit.  It's not quite this green out there now, though.

Vermont

Some paintings from my visits to Vermont, my home state and where my parents still reside.  

Washington

We moved to the Kitsap Peninsula in the winter of  2011.  This small oil painting is of a house on the water in Indianola, one of the first outings I made with the kids after we arrived.  It was one of our many excursions that confirmed that I was really going to love living here, and I do.

oil, 6x12"

oil, 6x12"

My small Bremerton house paintings.  

8x8"

8x8"

8x8"

8x8"

8x8"

8x8"

9x12"

I found a sheep farm/bed and breakfast on a drive one day in Beaver Valley, and not able to pass up sheep, I knocked on the door and asked if I could take some pictures.  Did a few little paintings from that day.

6x6"

8x10"