8×10, Watercolor on Fabriano Artistico 140#cp
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I’ve been so eager to work with watercolor this week, perhaps because of all the rain we’ve been having. This is painted from a photo of a tree out on a peninsula on the lake here at home. I loved the reflections of the colors and tree in the water, and the large, brooding clouds way above.
8×16″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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The other day, I saw these boats all lined up along the shoreline here by the lake and couldn’t wait to get out and do a wide-format painting of them. The clouds broke for a few hours today, so I dashed out during my window of opportunity. With rain this morning and more rain coming in later, I lucked out with a perfect midday break in the weather.
6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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Our back yard along the brook is too wet to mow this time of year. The sweet Forget-Me-Nots take over there and create an exquisite mass of tiny blue flowers beneath the Purple Martin house.
5×7″, Oils on Ampersand Gessoboard
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This was painted from one of the photos I took on my walk last night. The yellow tinge to the sky at sunset, and the little red boat, glowed all the more with the muted colors surrounding them.
6×6″, Oils on Ampersand Gessoboard
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I didn’t feel like straying far from home today, so I set my chair outside in the yard and took in the first blooms of spring under the stand of evergreens. My little dog kept me company, the temps were in the high 40s, and the sun was shining. It’s hard to ask an early spring day for more than that! I’ve been peeking at these hyacinths from the window for a week or so, and I’m glad I got to paint them before they disappeared for another year.
Palette:
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Cadmium Yellow Light
Permanent Red Medium
Permanent Rose
Ultramarine Blue Deep
Venetian Red
Chromatic Black
Viridian
Titanium White
5×7″, oils on panel
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30×40″, oils on stretched canvas
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This is an older painting that has never appeared on my website nor in a show. I just took a picture of it yesterday for the first time. My style has changed quite a bit since I painted this. I thought it would be interesting for my viewers to see something I did many years ago.
I am offering this huge painting for sale now for the first time, and at a great price!
5×7″, oils on linen, mounted on hardboard
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A couple of years ago, there was an amazing sunrise over the lake on a winter morning. I grabbed my camera, dashed out the door, and took hundreds of photos for future paintings. Here is another painting of the “Majestic Morning” series, just off the easel.
My palette for this painting was:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Cadmium Yellow Pale
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Raw Sienna
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red
Permanent Rose
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue Deep
Ivory Black
Viridian
I didn’t really need all those colors to do this painting, but since I’d put them all out on my palette, what the heck! I dipped into everything.
5×7″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
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6×6″, Oils on linen
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Palette:
Cadmium Yellow Lemon (Rembrandt)
Cadmium Red (Williamsburg)
Cobalt Blue (Winsor Newton)
Titanium White (Winsor Newton Artist & Winsor Newton Griffin mixed)
Initial wash of transparent yellow oxide (Rembrandt)
18×24″, Oils on canvas
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This is a painting done from a photo I took while out for an evening stroll with my husband in winter. It was done with a limited palette of just four colors and white. I love the way this turned out, with the dramatic light, contrast of the snow and branches, and harmonized color. It’s one of my personal favorite paintings.
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.
6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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This is my favorite tree along the lakeshore here. It turns this bright crimson color in fall, and I love the twists and turns of the trunk.
I painted this with my new little pochade box! It is the Guerrilla Painter Thumbox with the palette extension and watercolor palette. I filled the watercolor palette up with oil paints. That palette gets covered with the mixing palette, so the paints stay wet and it’s really fast to set up. Here’s a picture of the new box with a progress image of the painting:
12×12″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This painting was started on dull, dreary, rainy Sunday. It was lifeless and boring, so I went back to Tilly Foster Farm this morning when the sun was shining to “turn on the lights”. I like it much better now as a happy day painting!
11×15″, Pastel on LaCarte sanded pastel card
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This used to be my favorite tree along the lakeshore here. It had such an interesting shape, and the colors were beautifully vibrant as they changed with the seasons, leaving the intricate branchwork in winter. The entire left part of the tree came down in a storm last winter, and I miss it! It was one of my favorite painting subjects. Now the fullness of the leaves is gone, and the shape is not as inviting. This one was done from a photo taken before the tree’s mishap.
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Ampersand Gessoboard
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A few weeks ago, my husband and I drove to the other end of the lake to get western views of the sunset. We took loads of photos. This is my first painting from that series of images. I managed to stop myself a few times along the way to take some photos and post a demo.
I set up to paint with more colors on my palette than usual in order to get the more highly saturated sunset colors.
As you can see above, I used a more expanded palette for this painting than usual. My color choices were:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Primrose
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Pyrrole Red
Quinacridone Magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Jenkins Green
Phthalo Blue
Carbon Black
When I paint on a small board like this 5×7″ Gessoboard above, it’s hard to hold it and paint edge to edge. I use “blu tack” and affix it to an 8×10″ board. Then I can hold the larger board and be able to paint all the way to the edges without getting paint on my fingers, or I can set it down on a little tabletop easel.
My computer monitor yields stronger, more accurate color and chroma than a printed out photo, so I like to set up like this for small works and paint right off the computer screen. I use the old telephone book on the right to wipe my brushes before rinsing. It’s a great way to conserve paper towels and simultaneously recycle and old phone book. When the page gets filled with paint, I just tear it off, toss it, and go to the next page.
When a painting has areas of light, highly saturated color, I always put that down first. That holds the chroma, and then I can paint into it. It’s a lot easier to dull down strong color than it is to get this kind of brilliance on top of a grey or dark color. You can see how I reserved all the areas of strong color here:
Once the base colors and values have been laid down, I can start painting into them, creating variation, adding details, and adjusting edges. From the step above, it isn’t a long way to the finish line:
12×16″, oils
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Morning is such a beautiful time at Tilly Foster Farm. The light on the side of the horse shed and the distant views in this scene caught my attention. I stopped in my tracks and set up my easel. Every time I think I’ve painted here enough, I see another five scenes to be painted!
11×14″, oils on canvas covered hardboard, unframed
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Painted on location at Tilly Foster Farm in Brewster, NY
3.5×2.5″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on 100% cotton rag board (Shown above larger than life size!)
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As a step along the path to curing my funk, I decided I’d do something “just for fun” today. Again it was raining out—a true northeast spring. Normally I’d sketch or paint in my sketchbook for fun, but I decided this time to do an ACEO-size painting (click here if you don’t know what that is) from my studio window. I had such a great time, and love this little painting to bits!
The image above is much larger than the actual painting. Depending on the size of your monitor and your screen resolution, the painting as shown below is probably closer to the real size. At this small size, it really shows how much detail the painting has. Isn’t it adorable? By the way, you can get standard size frames for these at Michael’s Arts and Crafts and other stores. They also look great on little table easels.
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Fabriano Artistico (rag paper) hp
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My friend Shelli came up from New York City so that we could go plein air painting together for a couple of days. We were painting alongside the stream behind my house and she said, “Is this what you call ’streaming’?” 
For once I left the stream out of my painting. The recently-opened forsythia blossoms and evergreens caught my eye, along with the chunky textures of the big willow trunk. It was a gorgeous afternoon, but still very cold. In spite of the spring colors, I wondered if spring is really here. Maybe it’s just an optical illusion!
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Stonehenge 100% rag paper
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I almost changed my mind last night about going out to paint plein air at sunrise when I heard it was going to be overcast. However, I found myself awake at 5am, and since I was already packed up to go, I decided to go anyway. I was thinking that I’d just do some value studies, but as the sun came up and I saw the beautiful soft colors, I couldn’t resist the color work. Now I’m so glad I went. I used just one each of red, yellow and blue, plus white. The birds really were sitting there on the tree just like this. Some deer trotted by too, but I couldn’t get them into the painting in time.
7×5″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This is my favorite tree to paint by the lakeshore. The foliage changes dramatically with the seasons, and the twisting trunk and branches are so interesting to paint. We lost a big section of the tree in a wind and rain storm last week! I hope it will be able to recover.
6×4″, oils, unframed (see below to mat to 8×10)
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10×8″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Multimedia Artboard
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I am fortunate enough to have this beautiful scene in my back yard. I’m getting into the mood for spring color. This was painted from a photo I took last spring. I loved the strong blues contrasting with the forsythia hedge in the background. Hopefully, with a little help from the weather, I’ll soon be back out there painting from life.
12×18″, Pastel on Wallis
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This is definitely one of my favorites of the series so far. It felt great to break out my pastels for a landscape again, something I haven’t done for quite some time. This twisted tree is one of my favorites along the lakeshore. I’ve painted it many times in all different seasons and weather conditions, but the color on that special morning was truly the most spectacular I’ve ever seen at this location.
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5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on clear sized linen
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The three swans out on the ice during that spectacular morning sunrise put on quite a display, with their strong ultramarine coloring flashing against the reflected orange colors.
12×16″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This is the second painting of the Majestic Morning series, which will be a set of paintings from photo references taken during an amazing sunrise here at the lake a couple of weeks ago.
About 5.5×7.5″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Saunders Waterford 300 lb cold pressed, primed rag paper
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This is third in the series of the morning with the amazing sunrise here by the lake.
Palette:
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Ultramarine Blue
Pthalo Blue
Titanium White
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12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This was painted from the front porch of my friend Cathy’s house. She has a fabulous view of the distant hills, and the foreground tree was lit up against the dark hillside. The tops of the grasses and goldenrod on the field were illuminated by the strong morning light, and popped against the deep shadows.
I did some sketching today and haven’t had a chance to photograph any of them, so I’m bumping up this painting for those who haven’t seen it yet. It’s one of my favorites from the fall.
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18×24″, oils on stretched canvas
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This is a the headquarters of Putnam County Land Trust. It will be housed permanently over the fireplace in the building. The Land Trust has been renovating this building for years, and the painting will be unveiled at the grand opening in the spring. PCLT owns about 140 acres here. A local resident, with property bordering the preserve, left her house to the Land Trust in her will, to be used as a headquarters and for educational purposes.
This site is only about a half mile from me, so I’m very excited about doing this painting for the Land Trust!
Below are various stages of the painting in progress.
Second Stage:
First stage:
