8 x 6″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard, unframed
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A couple of times a year, I go on photo expeditions with my painting buddy Sue to collect painting references. I painted this from one of the photos I took at Muscoot Farm. I love painting there en plein air, but since they don’t open until 10, it’s hard to catch the light and shadow on location before the sun is directly overhead. This beautiful path winds around behind the fields, with old trees and huge rock outcroppings.

This was painted with a limited palette of cadmium yellow lemon, venetian red, burnt sienna, and ultramarine blue, plus white. This is one of my favorite landscape palettes when I don’t need a bright red or strong violet. It yields nice greens and earth tones, and a lovely soft violet.

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12×16″, Pastels on Wallis sanded paper
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I did a tiny, 6×6″ acrylic painting of this scene and liked it so much that I’ve been meaning to do a larger version for quite some time. Today I broke out the pastels for this 12×16″ rendition. I haven’t worked in pastel for quite some time, and really enjoyed the immediacy of the medium and color brilliance. I think perhaps there is a still larger version to be done at some point down the road!

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6×8″, oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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This painting was started a few weeks ago en plein air and finished up in the studio. I love this view of the Hudson River and surrounding hills, painted from a peninsula along the riverfront.

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12 x 16″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard
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This is a plein air painting that I did awhile back of the famous water tower along the Hudson River at Hastings-on-Hudson. There was a big environmental feud brewing between residents who wanted the tower restored and kept as a local landmark, and the property owner who wanted to avoid the high costs of restoration and just tear it down to build something more lucrative. I love the warm colors and interesting shapes, and wanted to be sure I had the opportunity to capture it in paint before it disappeared. I’ll have to check back and find out what the current status is, and whether or not the residents will be able to keep their landmark.

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1.5×2″, Golden Fluid and Golden OPEN acrylics on rag bristol
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This little gem is just off my easel. My tiny paintings, which I fondly refer to as “Jamie’s Jewels”, make ideal holiday gifts. You can commission a favorite scene, or choose one of the unsold miniatures already available. They are only $100 and come gift-boxed. Take a look at some of them by clicking here and then scrolling down the page beyond this post.

You’ll see that they can be either on tiny, unframed, gallery-wrapped stretched canvases, or I can paint these postage stamp size minis and put them in beautiful gold frames. I ship them in gold gift boxes with gold ribbons, so they are ready to put under your tree or in Somebody Special’s Christmas stocking. They can be prepared to be hung on a wall, or set on a miniature easel like this one. Surprise a loved one this holiday season with a creative gift from the heart!

I took a photo of this painting with a tape dispenser so that you can better see the scale of this tiny work. The paintings are done under a magnification lamp with very small brushes, and actually take longer to do than paintings many times the size. Plus, they come beautifully framed!

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I’m working on finishing up a commissioned painting today, and don’t know if it will be done in time to post it here for today’s painting. So, I thought instead, I’d provide this link for you to click on for your entertainment. Now you’ll all know what plein air painters really face when we head out on location! Be sure you have your computer speakers turned to experience the full effect!

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5×7″, oil on canvas covered hardboard, unframed
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This painting was done on location at Peach Lake in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

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24×36″, Oils on stretched canvas
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This large painting was done on location in Cold Spring, New York over a period of several days. It was pretty windy some of that time, and I thought the painting was going to act as a sail and carry off the entire easel from time to time! I was exhausted by the time the painting was completed, with the long days and long drives over to the location, but it was worth it.

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8×10″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard

All of these objects were “white”, but had leanings toward different colors. I pushed the colors and values of the different subjects, and varied edges and contrast to make my focal point.

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6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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I hiked into Constitution Marsh on the Hudson River the other day while the skies were overcast, but they didn’t stay that way for long. Keeping up with changing light as I painted was a real challenge! I brought just my oil paints and my Guerrilla Painter Thumbox in a backpack. That’s about all one could comfortably carry in over the hill and along the trails and boardwalks.

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12×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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I don’t paint still lifes very often this time of year, but the Three Muses and apples were hard to resist!

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8×10″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This is the same composition as the painting posted yesterday, painted at 12 noon on location. Notice how the light is flatter in the middle of the day. Shadows are not as dark, and contrasts are less pronounced than they were in the morning.

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6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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It was so cold standing in the wind at Olana while painting this that tears were running down my face!

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What is your least favorite color? This is the question my viewers were asked to vote on this past week, and here are the results:
Yellow (18%)
Orange (23%)
Red/Pink (9%)
Violet/Purple/Lavender (5%)
Blue (5%)
Green (14%)
Black (27%)

Isn’t it interesting that during Halloween month, Black and Orange led the pack? I’ll be putting up a new poll this evening. Many thanks to all the participants!

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