Porch l

24" x 24" Oil 2005

Another wonderful place to paint
in a wind blocked upstairs porch
during inclement weather

Beautifully framed with custom 2" x 1" beveled floating mahogany

$2400 +S/H

Village of Golf

16" x 24" Oil 2005 SOLD
One of the bonuses of painting en plein air, is people
invite you stay over so you can paint their homes and views!

Fishing Bridge

20" x 24" Oil on board 2001

$225. + S/H

The Round Barn

9" x 23" Oil SOLD

The Art in the Round Barn show is annually held here in Waitsfield, VT.
Many a wedding and other events are prepared by Cooking from the Heart.

American Flatbreads

11" x 14" Oil SOLD

American Flatbreads in Waitsfield, Vermont
Painting this memorable business property was a delight
as it brings so much pleasure to all the guests for dinners on Fridays & Saturdays.
There are also incredible gardens and
100 feet of stacked wood stored for the clay hearth ovens!

Hildene View

10" x 10" Oil

View facing east from garden

$225. + S/H

Over 1000 peonies!

Hildene Peonies

9" x 24" Oil SOLD

Hildene was Robert Todd Lincoln's home around the turn of the century
that has a splendid garden planted by his daughter. Last year they had
artists come to the grounds to paint and exhibit during the summer.

Shelburne Coach Barn

6" x 12" Pastel on board SOLD


The Shelburne Coach Barn is a magnificent building
as are the grounds on Lake Champlain.
Our VT Pastel Society had their meeting here following
a plein air outing. Only two of us painted, as others
felt it was too cold.
Working in plein air is not for sissies!

Temple Farm in Value Study

18" x 18" Oil

$725 + S/H

Temple Farm, Putney, Vermont

12 " x 12" Oil SOLD

My digital camera pooped out, and I sent it to be cleaned,
overhauled, whatever and should be back in 2 weeks.
Meanwhile I'll post paintings from my archives not posted
and catch up with new paintings when I can photograph again.

As Roseanna Danna said "it's always something!"

Water Over Rocks

10" x 10" Oil
This moving water always so captivating, but in capturing the movement I think it's more abstract than I realized when doing it. Sometimes that works better than straight realism.

$99. +S/H

New Mowed Hay

10" x 10" Oil

Having lived on a farm with 80 ewe once
and mowed hay, I still love the contour lines of it.

This is from 2004, and I'd probably not paint it
the same way now. We've got alot of family and friends
visiting this month and I'll retrieve some oldies to keep up
with posting.

$225 +S/H

Emily's Covered Bridge, Stowe

12" x 12" Oil

Quick study done in June before I went to my first
Frank Mason critique in Stowe, Vermont.
Thought I would get back into this but
still haven't tackled the dirt road in the foreground.

Bragg Hill Amy

6" x 6" Oil on masonite

Sold

$125. + S/H

Kinny & Richard's Home

16" x 16" Oil


Kinny designed a permaculture garden
with the help of a class at
Yestermorrow Design Build School

Kinny's Laundry Garden

6" x 6" Oil on masonite

I watched Kinny hang this line of laundry as I was painting
the one I'll post tomorrow of her house and part of the garden.
I was an invited artist to participate in the annual
Artist in the Garden Tour for the VT Arts Festivel over 2 days.
The first day it was drizzling rain early in the day, and overcast
for the rest of the day.

Bragg Hill Barn

4" x 6" Oil

In the collection of Governor Jim Douglas, Vermont

Summer Estuary

24" x 24" Oil on birch plywood
custom framed with 2" X 3/4" mahogany

An estuary is where the river meets the Ocean

$1,900 with custom frame + S/H

That Sheep May Safely Graze - Bragg Hill

6" x 6" Oil on masonite SOLD

End of day light right after a light rain.
Every August 6th I make a painting and call it
"That Sheep May Safely Graze" in memory of Hiroshima.

$99. + s/h

Laundry

24" x 24" Oil SOLD

This is a continuing subject for me
of laundry on the line.

$1900. + s/h
Congratulations to a couple in
Westport, CT who purchased Laundry!

Perfect Fishing Spot

5" x 7" Oil and Mixed Media SOLD

Every now and then making a painting that goes
outside of the box seems like a good idea. Sometimes working within
the frame can be limiting. Mixing it up.
I made portable "shrines" for
Bread & Puppet's Cheap Art during one week years ago,
that incorporated mixed media collapsible
"installations". They were immediate to make and fun.
This mixed media simply incorporated a landscape "emerging+"
I should more of these.

Upstream

5" x 7" Oil SOLD

River Study

11" x 14" Oil
This was an older river study using a fisherman
from photo inserted into my painting. Thought I'd put my moving water
pictures together.
I've always wanted to incorporate figures more in settings of nature
(think Luncheon on the Grass!) I'm always pushing my limits of knowledge
when painting and approaches in general to my studio work.

Here's a source I have found interesting as well.

Has anyone ever read Richard Diebenkorn's notes to himself on beginning a painting?

1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
2. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued, except as a stimulus for further moves.
3. Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.
4. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
5. Do not discover a subject of any kind.
6. Somehow do not be bored but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
7. Mistakes cannot be erased but they move you from your present position.
8. Keep thinking about Polyanna.
9. Tolerate chaos.
10. Be careful only in a perverse way.