8×12″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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This was another painting done pulled off to the side of a country road while out exploring. I love this scene and definitely want to go back to do a larger version sometime. I’ll bet it will be even more beautiful in [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Catskill Mountains, Farm Scenes, Greene County, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Palenville and Catskill, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

This is another entry in my Shades of Gray, monochrome value study book. It was painted en plein air while out sketching with my friend Karen the other day. I’d already done the full color sketch of the red barns (which I posted a couple of days ago), and was waiting for Karen to finish [...]

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I went out painting with my friend Karen on Friday, and decided to do some sketches rather than a focused effort on a single painting. This was my first sketch of the day — beautiful barns up on the hillside that we’d been admiring on our painting outings for quite some time. This one was [...]

Farm Scenes, Sketches | 1 Comment »

12×24, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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If you think you already saw this recently, you did! I decided to work on it more in the studio, so above is (hopefully!) the final image of the completed painting. These long, horizontal formats show so small on the blog page, [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Catskill Mountains, Farm Scenes, Greene County, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Palenville and Catskill, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

16×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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While driving around Amenia, New York with Tarryl last week, we came upon this wonderful hillside with cows grazing and a converted barn at the top. We pulled our cars over to the side of the road to take [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Dutchess County NY, Farm Scenes, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Sold | 1 Comment »

8×10″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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I have painted this scene many times at different times of day. This one was 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.

8x10 and smaller, Available, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Olana and Hudson NY, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

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!

8x10 and smaller, Available, Fall, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Olana and Hudson NY, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

6×8″, oils on canvas-covered hardboard
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I went to my friend Marcia’s house for lunch the other day. Next door to her, there’s a fabulous view with a red barn and distant mountains. It was very overcast in the morning, and raining later in the day. [...]

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8×10″, Oils on Raymar linen panel
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After braving yesterday’s cold and windy temps up on a hillside overlooking the Hudson River, I decided to opt for something more springlike today, and pulled out some of my favorite spring photo references. The red [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Flower Gardens and Flowering Trees, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, spring | 1 Comment »

8×6″, oils on Raymar canvas panel
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This magnificent spot, with the red barns nestled in the valley below the Catskills, is about five minutes from our house. There are mountains and rolling fields everywhere you look. Locations like this one are what make me realize [...]

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10 x 8″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard, unframed
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This was painted from a photo I took in New Paltz, New York. I love the vistas there by the Shwangunk cliffs, with rolling farmland and old barns everywhere.

8x10 and smaller, Available, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape | No Comments »

5×7″, Oil on canvas covered hardboard
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This old stone barn at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation is just loaded with character. It’s a wonderful subject in any season, but of course nothing beats fall!
red fields stone barn evergreen ward pound ridge reservation plein air landscape

8x10 and smaller, Available, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation | 1 Comment »

6×8″, Sepia ink pen and watercolors
My daughter and her friend had a photography class today, so while they were in class I pulled out my sketchbook in a shady spot and did a “Saturday Sketch” at Tilly Foster Farm. I struggle with architecture, so it’s always a great challenge for me when I’m out sketching.

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8×10″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Canson board
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I love this spot in the Catskills with the little red barns. I’ve been doing a bunch of compositional and color studies to select a composition for a large painting of the scene. This is the third one I’ve done. It was [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Catskill Mountains, Fall, Greene County, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Fabriano Artistico 100% rag watercolor paper
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I am painting a number of views of this charming red barn in the Platte Clove area of the Catskills. One of them will become a large painting at some point this year. I’m testing out a number [...]

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8×6″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on Raymar smooth canvas panel
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I’ve finished posting the plein air paintings from my Hudson River School trip, and am now beginning to work from the photo references I took. Many of these are deserving of large canvases. I’ll be doing these small ones now, [...]

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On the first day of our trip, we visited the home of Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. The house was part of a 100+ acre fruit farm during his lifetime, owned by his wife’s family. She had to sell off most of their possessions after he passed away, so there are a lot of [...]

Greene County, Hudson River School, Palenville and Catskill, Shows and News | 3 Comments »

12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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This was painted on location in the heart of the Hudson River School, at Frederic Church’s Olana estate in Hudson, NY. You can feel his presence on the property and all that inspired his work. There is a complex of red [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Olana and Hudson NY, Plein Air--painted on location | 2 Comments »

4×6″, gouache on Strathmore cp watercolor paper
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Behind the barns at Muscoot Farm in Somers, NY, there is a beautiful path that winds around the fields. This was painted en plein air along one of those serene paths.

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5×5″, Gouache on grey Canson board
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The weather forecast for today was awful, with thunderstorms predicted. The sun poked out for a couple of hours, and I quickly grabbed my gear and headed for Muscoot Farm. The deeply shaded back of this barn provided fantastic contrast with the bright [...]

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5×7″, gouache on Fabriano Artistico rag paper, matted to 8×10″
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This was painted at Muscoot Farm, Somers, NY, in the Hudson Valley. The forsythia was so colorful against the red barn that I had to stop in my tracks and paint it. The fields at [...]

8x10 and smaller, Flower Gardens and Flowering Trees, Landscape, Sold | 1 Comment »

12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This is a scene that I really wanted to paint on 9/11 on location, but it was raining. I did an ink and watercolor sketch of this barn with the flag years ago, and I’ve been meaning [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Brewster and North Salem, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Landscape, Sold, Tilly Foster Farm | 5 Comments »

6×6″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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This painting will be in a silent auction to benefit the Golden Foundation for the Arts .
I met with a wonderful group of painters at Benedict Farm in Montgomery, New York. I’d never been there before, but [...]

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5×7″, Gouache on watercolor paper
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This was painted on location at the Stone Barns (Rockefeller property). These cute chicken coops on wheels are moved around the fields on the property.

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6×8″, oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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It was brutally hot today. I wanted to paint the Rockefeller Stone Barns, but couldn’t find a shady vantage point. I wandered around until I found a shady spot with picnic tables. There was a lovely view of this stunning oak tree beside [...]

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8×10, oils on linen
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It was way too hot to be standing out in the sun doing this painting on location! My EasyL painting umbrella saved the day, though I was still pretty cooked by the time I was done. The late afternoon light against [...]

8x10 and smaller, Brewster and North Salem, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sketches, Sold, Still Life, Tilly Foster Farm | No Comments »

8×10″, oils, beautifully framed
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From up high at the top of the pastures, there is a magnificent overview of the farm, barn, reservoir, and distant hills. This was painted on location there. It was a challenging scene and I almost didn’t take it on, but [...]

8x10 and smaller, Brewster and North Salem, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold, Tilly Foster Farm | 3 Comments »

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6 x 6″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard, unframed
Tilly Foster Farm is an old horse farm that was purchased a few years ago by Putnam County to retain as open space. It has beautiful rolling fields, old buildings and barns, and a fantastic overview [...]

8x10 and smaller, Brewster and North Salem, Demos/Work in Progress, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Sketches, Sold, Tilly Foster Farm | 4 Comments »

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5×7″, double matted to 8×10, gouache on watercolor paper, unframed
Who isn’t getting ready for their springtime gardening this time of year? I know I’m eager! This is a scene of a garden at Stone Barns, which is part of the Rockefeller property in Pleasantville, New York. The big [...]

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