Oil Painting
6×8″ gessoed board
At Acadia National Park granite boulders like this one are scattered over wide smooth slabs of rock that serve as natural walkways. Storm clouds enhanced the dramatic view, cooling the landscape colors way down.
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Oil Painting
8×10″ canvas mounted on panel
This couple had the right idea, tucking into the shade along the banks of the Delaware River. This was the scene one fine afternoon in the Park at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.
Please contact Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery in Washington Crossing, PA for purchase of painting with plein air frame.
Oil Painting
8×6″ panel
Please contact Canal Frame-Crafts Gallery in Washington Crossing, PA for purchase. If you’re in the area, stop by the gallery in the heart of historic Washington Crossing Park. This year mark’s their 20th anniversary!
Oil Painting
6×6″ gessoed card
I looked up and saw the silhouette of a bird, framed by a thick coil of electrical cable, against the bright blue sky… That bird was singing its little heart out!
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Acrylic Painting
6×8″ beveled panel
Here’s another Bucks County landscape that caught my eye. The late afternoon sun created long, dark shadows across the fields and thankfully I was camera-ready. I need much more time to capture her beauty than Nature will allow so the photo is for reference only; composition and light – not to be slavishly copied. I try to paint my first impression.
Please contact Chapman Gallery in Doylestown, PA for purchase of this painting with “plein air” frame.
Detail of a wood mosaic
Materials: “waves” are poplar wood painted in blue glazes; “beach stones” are natural woods of cedar, poplar, spalted maple
This is a detail of a larger mosaic, based on one of my favorite themes. It grew naturally from my Meditations series of paintings and silverpoint drawings. This work will be part of an online exhibit called “Off the Floor” through Crafthaus. I’ll post the full image here next month when that show is up and running.
As you’ve seen on my blog and website, I love working in 3 mediums, but I will say that working in multi-media does have its pros and cons. The most difficult is the energy and time involved in marketing. The most rewarding is exploring a particular theme over multi-media: via a paintbrush, a silverpoint stylus, or in the case of my wood mosaics, a band saw – and being sensitive to each medium.
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Silverpoint Drawing
5×7″ prepared paper
These fortune cookies are drawn with a rod of silver on gray-blue prepared paper. This drawing medium, known as silverpoint, pre-dates the graphite pencil and was used extensively during the Renaissance era. Over time the metallic silver lines will “tarnish” to a sepia tone.
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Acrylic Painting
6×8″ beveled panel
I love the back roads of Bucks County where I often pass fields of trees like this one. Here’s an impression of the fluttering leaves and flashes of color that caught my eye while I drove by.
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Oil Painting
5×7″ beveled panel
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Oil Painting
6×9″ beveled panel
I started doing paintings of glass spheres and beach stones in the mid-’90s and haven’t stopped. I still find these elements completely absorbing and elusive, paying close attention to which objects to use and how to arrange them. One painting leads to the next and to the next in a continuous stream, as I spontaneously try to capture the essence, in a brushstroke or color, of these things that I love.
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