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12×24″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This painting was done this morning at sunrise at Cold Spring waterfront park along the Hudson River. It was sooooo cold. Brrrrrr!!!! Storm King mountain was initially shrouded in fluffy pink clouds. It was an awesome sight, but the clouds had risen by the time I was set up to paint.
Bench with a Hudson View
7×5″, Watercolor on Fabriano Artistico 140lb hot press
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I’ve always admired watercolors and love using them to sketch, but it seems I never set time aside for them. I’m going to start “Watercolor Wednesdays” here on my blog as a means of reserving time to work on my watercolors.
This is a scene from a little park near the train station in Cold Spring, New York. I used a photo reference and a 5×7″ Fabriano watercolor block of their delicious hot press, rag paper. I began with a modified contour drawing alla Charles Reid:
I just received his new book Watercolor Solutions, and the DVD that goes along with it. I give them very high marks, and I’m looking forward to exploring some of his techniques as I work through my own plein air landscapes, life studies, and photo references.
16×20″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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This was painted on location in Cold Spring, New York, facing Storm King Mountain. I paint all over the Hudson River Valley, and the Hudson Highlands region certainly rates as one of the most dramatic along the river. I had to wait a long time for the clouds to break before they struck the mountain, but once the sun broke through it was quite spectacular.
For those who like to see some of the process, here is a photo of the Quinacridone Gold underpainting that I did for this one:
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18×24″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This painting was done from a photograph and a small color study of the scene that I painted a few weeks ago. You can see the color study here.
It is a fall view overlooking the Hudson River from private property in Garrison, New York. I may still tweak a few things on the larger version and will try to get a better photograph of it soon!
6×8″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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I once knew a wonderful painter named Mike Pacitti, who passed away a few years ago. He used a few different colors to underpaint with. One of them was called Burnt Carmine, made by Rembrandt. I remember it as a strong carmine/crimson color mixed with black. Even with black in the mix, I was surprised by how strong the color was when I saw Mike use it, and yet his paintings were filled with beautiful subtleties.
I decided to try something like that while waiting for clouds to break along the Hudson River in Cold Spring. I mixed Quinacridone Magenta half and half with Carbon Black, and used that to do the underpainting for this little plein air. It was much stronger than the colors I normally use to lay out my composition and values. No matter what you use to paint over it, the magenta seems to work its way through. Part of me thinks it still comes through too much. Another part of me thinks I’m just not used to it, and that I kind of like the effect.
What do you think? (Please click “comments” at the bottom of this post to let me know rather than emailing, because I’m getting swamped! 
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12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Raymar smooth canvas panel
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This was painted late in the afternoon on location in Cold Spring, New York. It was one of those perfect pre-fall days, filled with the glow of the late day light and the Hudson River breezes. I took the photo below after completing the painting, so the light and shadows had changed somewhat from the time I started. I kept going out to the car to get more things, so you can see that by the end of the day, I had accumulated enough stuff on site for three artists!
6×8″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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I had a true painting marathon today, leaving the house at 7am and not returning until around 8:30. It was a fabulous day of great weather and beautiful scenery in Cold Spring, New York, along the banks of the Hudson River. I can well understand why some of the Hudson River School painters loved to paint from this very spot; I love to paint here too!
This was the last one of the day—attempting to catch the fleeting sunset colors during the few minutes before the light faded into darkness. There’s never enough time to “finish” one when painting sunsets on location. It’s really a matter of grabbing color as it emerges, and hoping for the best!
I’ll be showing the other paintings soon. Some need finishing touches, and then I’ll take the photos and upload them. I’ve got some images of the works in progress and nice location shots, so stay tuned!
I’m exhausted!
6×6″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Ampersand Gessoboard
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Above is the completed painting, and below is an image of the work in progress. I’d initially planned to put in foreground grasses, but after doing that, I felt the painting was more effective without them. So, I worked on it yet a third time, and took the foreground grasses out!
It’s interesting how much the color of light affects what we see. The image of the finished painting was taken with the corrected light of my photo box, but the progress image was taken in cool daylight. The actual colors in paintings vary according to the lighting conditions where we view them.
I did the underpainting for this work with a color I’d not tried before from the Golden OPEN line—Quinacridone Gold. I love the warm glow that it brings to the work. I could get hooked on this color!
This is painted from a photo I took down in Constitution Marsh on the Hudson River. It’s been in my file of things I want to paint for a long time! With fall on the way, it seemed the right moment to pull out this lively autumn scene.
I’m still using an expanded palette because the paint is still wet from yesterday, and I’ve even added a few colors to the large assortment I was working with. So far for this painting I’ve used:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Primrose
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Naples Yellow
Cadmium Red Light
Pyrrole Red
Ultramarine Blue
Transparent Red Oxide
Quinacridone Gold
Carbon Black
Jenkins Green
12×16″, Oils
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Join me and the other members of the Hudson Valley Four for our show opening this Sunday, September 14, from 4-6pm. In addition to the small format works that Bannerman Island Gallery always carries of mine, I have many in this show ranging in size up to 12×24″. They are all oils and acrylics, beautifully custom framed with my wide, gold, plein air style frames. The show will run through the first week of October, in case you can’t get there this weekend. It’s already hung, so can be viewed before the opening as well, and on the evening of Beacon’s “Second Saturday” (Sept. 13). Call the gallery (phone number above) for their hours. I’ll be there on Sunday the 14th from 4-6pm.
My works for this show include work done in the Catskills area of the Hudson Valley, as well as paintings from Olana, Cold Spring, Garrison, and Hastings. My good friends Suhua Wood, Daisy Deputhod, and Phyllis Tarlow are also in the show. We all show together sometimes as the Hudson Valley Four.
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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I’m starting to go through fall images, thinking about places I’d like to go for plein air painting this upcoming season, and simultaneously doing some small color studies for large studio works. This beautiful view of the Hudson River was painted today from a photo I took last fall. I love the look of the Hudson Highlands as the trees lose their leaves. They take on the most beautiful pinky-violet color until the greens of summer re-emerge.
8×10″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Raymar canvas panel
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I was down painting in Hastings-on-Hudson this morning. The Hudson River view was gorgeous as always. The sun hit the cliffs in the early morning light, giving them a reddish color. As the morning wore on, they became darker and more violet. I am always amazed by how much the color of the cliffs changes so quickly there. I stuck with my early morning version.
After painting, I went to a wonderful exhibit at the Hudson River Museum of the work of Anna Richards Brewster…..highly recommended!
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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Today is one of those unbearably hot and humid summer days, so I set out early for Boscobel Restoration in Garrison to beat the heat, and did just one small painting. The Hudson was shrouded in more than its usual share of haze with the high humidity. I found Golden’s Titan Buff color to be the perfect palette addition to capture that atmosphere. I painted the entire panel that color, then painted into it with my other colors. I love the effect it gave!
12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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I had a wonderful excursion to Nyack today to paint along the Hudson River. The day was supposed to be very hot, so I left home early this morning to beat the heat. When I arrived at this wonderful path along the river, I was captivated by the yellow, atmospheric sky over the far hills across the river, and the shapes of the trees. This spot is very close to the parking lot, but I saw no reason to venture further, and set up my easel.
I used more than my usual limited palette for this one, expanding my colors to a whopping seven tubes!
Buff Titanium
Naples Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Primrose
Cadmium Red Light
Transparent Red Oxide
Ultramarine Blue
Titanium White (hardly used it at all)
The buff titanium and naples yellow were great additions to my palette for this particular scene. I think they’ll likely become staples for these atmospheric, early morning paintings.
8×10″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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The other day, I stayed at Olana until sunset to paint the Hudson River overview from the top of the hill. The river has a very distinctive shape from here. You can always spot a painting of the Hudson done from Frederic Church’s home.
6×6″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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A month or so ago, I went to Poet’s Walk along the Hudson River near Rhinebeck. I did a couple of watercolor sketches and took some photos as reference images. It was raining out today, so I pulled out one of those photos and painted this little color study. You have to hike about a mile along the dirt path to arrive at the Hudson River with this magnificent view of the Catskills.
6×8″, Golden OPEN Acrylicss on 300 lb Saunders Waterford watercolor paper
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I was finally able to get out to paint plein air this evening for the first time since I hurt my back. Whatever pain I endured while crouched on my folding stool with my lap-painting box, was well worth it for the view of this spectacular sunset over the Hudson River.
8×10, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This is a work-in-progress image of my second painting from Nyack. I had to move my spot when the tide started coming in and lapping at the feet of my Soltek easel! I took the photo before I changed painting spots, then worked on the painting a little more and signed it. I forgot to take another picture when it was completed, and now it’s sold!
Like the first one, the colors are a bit off due to being photographed outside with all that blue reflected light. Memorial Park in Nyack was a great spot to paint. I’m sure I’ll return there someday to do some more.
16×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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I woke up early and headed across the Hudson River to Memorial Park in Nyack. I got this one done before it got too hot out. It’s a beautiful site to paint. It was quite hazy out this morning, and you can just make out the Tappan Zee Bridge on the horizon.
The photos were taken outside, since I didn’t get to bring the painting home, so they are filled with blue reflected light. I can’t really adjust these images properly, but you can at least get an iidea of what the painting looked like! That area that appears greenish in the upper left is not really green at all, but rather the yellowish glow from the early morning haze.
Here’s a photo of the painting in progress with the scene, a little later in the morning:
I have to say that I was so impressed with the way the Golden Open Acrylics handled in the heat. They stayed wet the entire time on my palette with just an occasional spray of water. In fact, when I was done with this painting, I was able to use the remains of the paint piles on my next one.
5×7″, Gouache on Fabriano Artistico hp watercolor paper
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I was back up painting at the castle today. Since I did so many paintings of the Hudson River overview from up there last week, I decided to do a smaller view of part of the castle today. You can see the river peeking from below in the background. It was a beautiful day, but very cold up there on top of the world! The castle blocked the wind and I was sitting in the sun, soaking up the warmth.
12×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This painting was again done from the castle balcony. Breakneck Ridge was far, far in the distance, but I liked the way this square crop of the scene worked out with the weaving of the Hudson River, and Bannerman Island balancing the composition on the far left. I wished I’d had my binoculars with me while I was painting! The shadows on Breakneck Ridge are so dramatic late in the afternoon. This painting didn’t get finished until almost sunset.
8×10″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Saunders Waterford 300lb cp
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This is an afternoon scene painted on location from The Castle in Garrison, overlooking the Hudson River. What a location! Breakneck Ridge was occasionally thrown into deep shadow by clouds overhead. I thought it very dramatic! The light is quite different from the morning view that I posted yesterday.
12×16″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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I went back up to the castle today and finished this one finally! You can see the work in progress and a photo of the scene I was painting on this thread.
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I was able to get permission to paint at the old Garrison Castle today. I stood out on an upper floor balcony, with a straight shot above West Point, upriver, through the Hudson Highlands and beyond. You can even see Bannerman Island next to Breakneck Ridge from here. The river does a complete, tight “S” curve at this point between West Point and Constitution Island. It must be quite the navigational nightmare for a large ship. It is a staggeringly beautiful view.
It started out as a sunny day, but quickly changed over to cloudy, and then the rain showers moved in. (The photo above, painted toward the end of my session, was clearly after the light had changed!) This is a very complex scene, with layers of hills and mountains extending all the way through the Highlands, to the cliffs of the Shawangunks, and even to the Catskill Mountains beyond the Gunks. Plus, all those buildings at West Point! The shifting weather made a tough scene even harder. I had to pack it in before I could finish. There’s not too much left to do on this; I’ll either finish it from a photo I took, or else try to get permission to return.
Here it is in its current unfinished state. It’s 12×16″, oils on canvas covered hardboard. I’ll post it again when it’s finished.
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24×36″, oils on stretched canvas, custom framed
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This is a large oil painting done over a period of several days on location at the Boscobel Restoration in Fall, with some finishing touches completed in the studio. It is the famous view from the bluff above the Hudson River, overlooking Consitution Marsh. I’ve painted this scene many times in every season but winter! The marsh glows red in the fall and it’s a spectacular sight come late October.
Sometimes it’s hard to find these larger works among all the smaller ones on my blog, and many viewers have been asking to see more of my larger works, so I am bringing this up to the top today. Yesterday was a hectic day and I didn’t get to paint. This painting is varnished and ready to ship.
5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Fabriano Artistico rag watercolor paper
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This painting was started en plein air in Cold Spring, New York. There was a lot of construction noise from the site next to this one, so I ended up leaving the location and finished this in the studio from a photo. It was about 80% completed on location. I love this spot in the Hudson Highlands, with the purple mountains looming over the river.
16 x 20″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard
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This is a painting I did on location in springtime at Boscobel Restoration, enjoying the beautiful cherry blossoms along the path above the Hudson River. The painting is varnished, framed, and ready to hang on your wall!
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16×20″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
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Here are yet more spring flowers and trees from Boscobel Restoration in Garrison, NY. This was painted on location in the garden courtyard.
16×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This is another Hudson River painting done this week on location at Hastings Waterfront Park. This time, I turned toward the Palisades across the river, with the rocks and trees in the foreground bathed in cool, morning light.
8×10, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Canson board
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This is another painting done this week from the Boscobel overlook to the Hudson River. The channels wind through Constitution Marsh, and the spring foliage is still sparse enough to clearly see them between the islands of violet-toned grasses. It’s a spectacular view in any season.
12×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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We had a paintout today of the Lower Hudson Valley chapter of New York Plein Air Painters. Five of us gathered at the beautiful Hastings Waterfront Park on the Hudson River for a day of perfect spring weather. There were a couple of fishermen there, and one of them was kind enough to pose for me. Thank you, Sean!