6×8″, Oils on Raymar canvas panel
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This was painted on one of those gorgeous spring days when everybody should be outside painting! I went to Tilly Foster Farm to take in the beautiful view of the pond and rolling hills.

I used a wash of raw sienna to start off this painting, and a little Liquin Fine Detail to help it start tacking up. The painting was done with a limited palette:
Williamsburg Cadmium Yellow Light
Rembrandt Permanent Red Medium
Winsor Newton old tube of Ultramarine Deep (now French Ultramarine)
Winsor Newton Raw Sienna
Winsor Newton Titanium White

24×36″, Oils on stretched canvas
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This painting has been a long time in process. It started out with a small monochrome study, followed by a color study, both completed on location. I then did an intermediate stage in the studio at 1/2 each dimension of the large painting. (Intermediate size was 12×18″.)

After a day and a half of working on the large painting in the studio, I took it back to the location a week or so later to work on it outside, where I could gather more information directly from the source once again. I felt lots of things were improved after that session of on site painting, but it still wasn’t finished.

I’ve put in more time on it here and there as it’s sat on the big easel in my studio, and I think I can finally call it finished! Here it is up on my studio easel during today’s session, with the studies next to it for reference. The studies are a progression toward the finished painting, but as you can see, I changed things that I wanted to improve upon in each version.

10×8″, oils on panel, unframed
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Painted on location at Tilly Foster Farm in Brewster, New York. I’ve bumped up this painting because it just made it into the local paper! Take a look!

8.5×11″, Watercolor

Text (continued from yesterday’s post):
….typing, inventory lists, printing and mailing post cards, shopping for receptions….It was so great to wake up this morning and be able to just go out and sketch! I didn’t even have to be concerned about turning out a finished painting. There is so much freedom in a sketchbook!

I used a palette laid out with old paint, which I misted as I went along. But there’s nothing like truly moist pigment, freshly laid out on the palette. I think it’s time to either scrap these dried globs of paint, or at least add new color to the old. I was also finding that these old colors (at least some of them) are no longer regulars on my watercolor palette. Manganese blue hue and phthalo green definitely need to go!

11×8.5″, watercolor

Text:
Tilly Foster Morning

My dear friend, Jan Blencowe, has a wonderful watercolor sketchbook with thick paper, not too rough and not too smooth. Just a few days after I complimented it, a box arrived in the mail for me. Jan ordered one of these great sketchbooks for me!

It’s been sitting around, waiting patiently for me to finish my work for the shows that opened this past weekend. It takes a special kind of day to break into a big, new sketchbook. Today was that kind of day, with blue skies, some clouds, warm but mild temperature, and a hint of fall color making its way into the foliage at Tilly Foster Farm.

I’ve painted this little shed and pond from the other side, looking toward the mountains. Today was the first time walking around to the west side of the pond, to examine the potential for future paintings.

I’m exhausted from framing 50 paintings for shows,

(…to be continued tomorrow….)

8×10″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Canson board, custom framed (14×16″ including frame)
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What was I thinking? I sat in the blistering hot sun at Tilly Foster Farm for hours to paint this. Even with my large beach umbrella for shade, the heat was too much. When I was finished, I walked over to where my smart friends were painting, under the shade of a huge tree! It felt 20 degrees cooler there. The great subject matter of this old truck was more than I could resist, even in the heat. The hay bales were glistening in the morning sun, and the large barrel of flowers provided the final, beautiful touch.

My palette for this painting:
Naples Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Primrose
Pyrrole Red
Transparent Red Oxide
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Jenkins Green
Titanium White

16×20″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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This is one of those situations when I used the scene for inspiration, but made many changes for the sake of color and composition. Below is a photo of the scene, so that you can see what I was working with. Using elements found in the landscape, I arranged them to create my painting. I removed part of the fence so that we could enter the scene, painted in a path to draw us into the composition, gave some leaves to the bare tree, and warmed up some of the color.

Here’s a pic of my setup with the painting and the scene.

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!

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