Purple Haze

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Softly shifting light
reveals grass and dune and sea
today?  Purple Haze

I've done a lot of sunsets in this style, but this is a morning painting.   The sky has the delicate colors of sunrise and soft purples cover the grasses and shadows on the sand.  This watercolor measures 9.75" wide by 6.75" high, but is double matted to 11 x 14".  The mat colors I'm using are Whisper White and Cloud.  I chose them for the color, but loved the names, which seemed to go so well with this painting.

This piece is done on 140# Arches watercolor paper, with transparent Winsor & Newton watercolors.  The colors in the actual painting are more intense in the sky, with some beautiful peaches to complement the purples.  Hope you enjoy!

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Along the Cher - Watercolor

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I thought it would be fun to paint the same scene in both oil and watercolor.  I took a little artistic license for a few elements of the original reference, but it's basically the same.  I might just do it in pastel next!
It was a little harder to get the monitor image colors just right with this watercolor, but it's pretty close.  This landscape painting of scenery along the Cher River in France is done on 140# Arches watercolor paper.  It's roughly 13.5" wide by 9.75" high. 

Along the Cher - Oil

Ahhh--France.  The Loire Valley filled with charming chateaux and an abundance of flowers.  This painting is based on an area visited there along the River Cher.  No matter where you turned, there was a beautiful view.  This oil painitng is 4 x 5", done on an archival quality canvas panel.  Hope it makes you take a deep breath and relax. 

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Summer Sunflower

Soon the farmer's field behind our house will be dotted with smiling, summery faces of sunflowers!  I love the way they have an "attitude" after a few weeks when the rain, sun and wind have weathered them a bit.  This watercolor is 4 7/8" wide by 11 7/8" high and is done on Canson 140# watercolor paper.  It's just a blue summer sky behind the flower with the slightest indication of additional foliage at the bottom.  I have it double matted with an off white acid free mat.  Hope you enjoy it!

Spring Chores

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"Spring Chores" is a pastel, 9 x 12", done on LaCarte pastel paper.  The location is New Pond Farm in West Redding, CT and it is an environmental education center and working farm.  It hosts many groups of children over the course of the year and opens the farm to visitors to meander its beautiful acreage.  Here's a link to view the site--it's a beautiful place!  http://www.newpondfarm.org/

I've only been doing pastel for about a year and a half but find I love the medium!  Hopefully, I'll be posting more soon. 

Country Barn

With warm weather finally here, I was reminded of this watercolor painting I had done of a barn in summer, with flowers blooming by the roadside, framing the tranquil scene.  It was done on 140# Arches paper, approximately 10 x 14".  Happy to say it caught someone's eye and just sold! 

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Country Bouquet

Country Bouquet

As many of you know, I'm a picture framer in addition to being an artist.  In recent years, I had framed many lovely pastel paintings generated in a class given by Peter Seltzer, an amazing pastel and oil artist.  I decided I just had to give this medium a try and enrolled in Peter's class.  I have to say I've come to love the pastel medium!  Framing it is another story (it's difficult), but I love the immediacy and strength of color of working in pastel.  This is my first effort worthy of framing so I'm excited to post it. 

It's done on LaCarte pastel paper with hard and soft pastel.  It's 14.5" wide and 15.75 " high.  We're all waiting for the warmth of Spring here in the Northeast, so this is in tribute to our spring and summer flowers to come.  Hope you enjoy it.