Artist Studio
This painting and poem is based on a morning in the Kalahari Desert, when the sun was extremely bright and the temperatures were quickly rising. We were headed to Deception Valley and I just felt an unbelievable attachment to the land and all those who had walked this ground for as long as we have been on the planet.
This painting and poem are about a day spent painting during the winter a few years back. I painted in absolutely cold weather in watercolor with vodka put in the water to keep it from freezing. The painting was not fabulous but I learned a lot as I always do outdoors. I painted this oil
This sunset painting was a demonstration for one of my classes. I was trying to explain the concept of value control and how value affects color. If the color is wrong most times its the value that is off. Analyze the values in the major shapes and keep relating those values to the ones that
This painting is about a wonderful farm that I passed for years on my way to teach and was just recently sold to developers. I made up this story and poem to express my feelings about the farm, the painting and the state of life. Today on the county steps, another farmer’s shattered dream. He
We drove out onto the Tai Pan very early just as the sun came up. In an open Land Cruiser, the morning chill was heightened by the wind blowing back through the open window. The world was surreal, dreamlike, and was cloaked in mystery and romance. We were looking for the Kalahari’s Black Mane Lion. Driving down the dirt path we came to a field where everything was covered in beautiful delicate spider webs
This painting is just an impression, of one of those moments that exist for just a fraction of time. The brilliance of the sunset in the desert is so spectacular it can be a cliche if handled too sweetly. I tried to get the values right and to emphasize the concept that it is all
Here is another revisit of one of my paintings an oil painting of Botswana. I have written a poem about it that reflects my feeling of the change that happens when a weather front comes through. The painting is a very direct piece that I did in on short session, my goal to just capture the energy of the weather and the beautiful light.
What a great day painting with a new collection of wonderful student. We painted at one of my favorite places the Belted Galway Farm in Camden, Maine. The lesson this morning was to focus on a very small light pattern and play it against a dark and dark middle value major piece. My demonstration is