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    If you haven't seen the two-DVD set, "The Impressionists", you don't know what you're missing!

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    I rented it from Netflix and absolutely loved it. It is an enactment of the lives of Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, and other Impressionist painters living at that time around Paris. Fascinating and eye-opening!





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Fall Impressions

Posted by Jamie on October 9th, 2011

7 x 5″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
$130.00 plus $10 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This little plein air was painted in the back yard along the stream on a beautiful fall morning.

Thomas Cole House

Posted by Jamie on September 7th, 2011

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9×12, Oils on archival linen panel
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This is a new painting of the Thomas Cole House, done from a small plein air painting and a photo as references.

Hidden Falls

Posted by Jamie on September 6th, 2011

8×10″, Golden Fluid Acrylics on archival Canson board
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Deep in the woods is a stunning waterfall with clear water, rusty colors, and striking rock outcroppings, set in a hemlock grove. I often hike there with my husband, but this was my first time going with [...]

Contemplation

Posted by Jamie on March 29th, 2011

12×16″, Oils on archival linen panel
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This is one of my favorite painting locations in the Catskills. You can sit on the rocks for hours and hear nothing but rushing water. The water is crystal clear, and so transparent that the pool looks a lot shallower than it [...]

Water Media and Life’s Tough Choices

Posted by Jamie on February 26th, 2011

You can click the image above to enlarge it.
These days, there are so many fabulous options for painting with water, if one doesn’t wish to use solvents. A reader made a comment on my blog, asking a question about these choices which I thought would make an interesting blog post.
From Dennis (Edited a bit for [...]

Fall at Cooper Lake

Posted by Jamie on November 2nd, 2010

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12×24″, Golden Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
$720.00 plus $30 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
I went with a group of seven plein air painters to paint at Cooper Lake in Woodstock, New York. The lake is gorgeous, [...]

Last Call for Sunflowers

Posted by Jamie on September 20th, 2010

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8×16″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
$395.00 plus $20 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
It’s that time of year when hard frost can hit at any time up here, and that’s the [...]

The Cliff House at Lake Minnewaska

Posted by Jamie on September 13th, 2010

12×16″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
$495.00 plus $20 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
A group of the Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters went to Lake Minnewaska to paint last week. The white conglomerate cliffs and striking water (which varies [...]

Morning by Garrison Train Station

Posted by Jamie on July 7th, 2010

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8×16″, Golden Fluid Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
Custom framed
$630.00 plus free shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This is a plein air painting that I did in May at Garrison Landing. It needed a few minutes of tweaks [...]

Amenia Afternoon

Posted by Jamie on June 9th, 2010

8×12″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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This is the finished painting that I started on location a couple of days ago. This time of year unfinished paintings often sit around my studio for a long time while I’m busy outside painting plein air pieces. I’m glad I had [...]

Tulips By the Fountain

Posted by Jamie on May 20th, 2010

7×5″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
$125.00 plus $10 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This is a painting I did some time ago. It is seasonal and has always been one of my favorite little garden/fountain paintings, so I [...]

11×15″ (quarter sheet) watercolor on Fabriano Artistico
$395.00 plus $20 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
It was a beautiful evening on Friday along the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. My painting buddy, Sue, went with me to Long Dock after we [...]

Late Day Fishing on the Hudson River

Posted by Jamie on April 8th, 2010

8×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
Custom framed
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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of days looking at my photo references. Usually I set aside photos that I [...]

View from Hunter Mountain — large oil painting

Posted by Jamie on March 27th, 2010

28×42″, Oils on stretched canvas
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Finished at last! This was such a great painting to work on. Those of you who have been following along may remember that my client for this painting sent me samples of her carpet colors to work into the landscape. [...]

Sunrise Footprints in the Snow at Peach Lake

Posted by Jamie on February 16th, 2010

Sunrise Footprints
5×7″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
$125.00 plus $10 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This is another sunrise view from my living room window. I really enjoy painting “plein air” from there in real time, but this one was done [...]

Fire in the Sky — Sunset over Olana

Posted by Jamie on December 20th, 2009

6×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
Custom framed
$290.00 plus $20 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This began as a plein air painting this past October. Just as the sun sank below the horizon, the sky lit up like a fireball. As [...]

Beside the Babbling Brook

Posted by Jamie on December 16th, 2009

8×10″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
$250.00 plus $15 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This is one of my plein air paintings that hung around the studio for months waiting to be finished. Well, today was the day!
There is a [...]

Athens Lighthouse from Hudson — Miniature Painting

Posted by Jamie on December 2nd, 2009

1.5×2″, Golden Acrylics on 4-ply Rag Bristol, framed
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These miniature gems are too much fun to be legal! This is a miniature version of an 8×10″ painting that I did en plein air in the spring. You can see that painting by clicking here. I [...]

Little Red Shed en plein air

Posted by Jamie on November 30th, 2009

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!

Clouds Over Ward Pound Ridge

Posted by Jamie on November 26th, 2009

5×7″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This is a scene from Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Pound Ridge, NY. This county park is over 4,700 acres of rolling fields, beautiful trees, and hillsides with dramatic vistas. This is a 5×7″ plein air painting—done on location. [...]

Portrait Sketch of Troy — Left Profile

Posted by Jamie on November 19th, 2009

12×9″, Pastel on Art Spectrum sanded paper
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This is my first portrait since last winter — a two hour sketch from life. The model sits for three consecutive sessions, but I prefer to [...]

Breakneck Ridge and a Yellow Sky

Posted by Jamie on November 18th, 2009

9×12″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
$325.00 plus $15 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
Today I returned to the location where I painted yesterday. When I first arrived there, the sky was totally blue. I had to run back to the [...]

How to Tube Paint — Demo

Posted by Jamie on November 8th, 2009

Since my post about tubing my own paint, I’ve received many requests for instructions from viewers. Hopefully this demo will answer most of your questions. Many thanks to Marc Hanson for his paint-tubing advice as I got started with doing my own.
There are many reasons for tubing your own paint:
Mix leftover paints when a session [...]

Fall Trees by the Lakeshore—large plein air oil painting

Posted by Jamie on October 15th, 2009

20×24″, oil on stretched canvas
$960.00 plus $35 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
This is a fall plein air painting looking toward North Salem, across Peach Lake. It’s quite large for a plein air painting at 20×24″, and took several sessions [...]

Solo Act — Plein air painting at Olana

Posted by Jamie on October 13th, 2009

6×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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Sunday was the Olana Paintout, an annual event at the estate of the late Hudson River School painter Frederic Church. As I drove along the road that runs through the grounds to the top of the hill overlooking the [...]

Gazing Up at Olana en plein air

Posted by Jamie on October 9th, 2009

12×16″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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There is nothing for a Hudson River painter quite like standing in the yard at Frederic Church’s estate and looking up at his home, paintbrush in hand. Spending an occasional day at Olana makes me appreciate the history and [...]

8×10″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This was painted early yesterday morning for Artists on Location in Garrison, NY. There was a misty drizzle on and off, so I found a spot off to the side of the dirt road where I could paint in [...]

(Shadows along top of image are from the easel holding the painting)
24×18″, Oils on stretched canvas
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Although there were heavy clouds overhead today, I spent another day on location with this painting to finish it up. It is such a beautiful and tranquil spot. I [...]

Chinese Friendship Pavillion — work in progress

Posted by Jamie on September 29th, 2009

18×24″, Oils on stretched canvas
This is a work in progress that was started on location today. I’d like to get in at least one more plein air day with it, and a third day in the studio should finish it up.
You can see how much the light and colors changed once that thick cloud layer [...]

6×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
$290.00 plus $20 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
I painted with friends last week at an overlook on the west side of the Hudson River. The scene was very dramatic as the filtered sunlight fought [...]