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 [...]

8x10 and smaller, Cold Spring and Garrison, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | No Comments »

(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 [...]

16x20 and larger, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | No Comments »

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 [...]

16x20 and larger, Demos/Work in Progress, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape | No Comments »

6×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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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 [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Beacon, Currently In Gallery, Fall, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Quadricentennial Series, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

12×15″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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Today I brought my new Beauport easel down to the beaver pond. I tried to send progress images to my Facebook page from the painting location, but it doesn’t look like they arrived there. I’ll have to get help from my daughter [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Catskill Mountains, Demos/Work in Progress, Fall, Greene County, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Palenville and Catskill, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

5×7″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard, unframed
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This was painted from a home high up on a hilltop in North Salem, New York. There were beautiful views of distant hills to the west, but when I saw these bright pink flowers against the [...]

8x10 and smaller, Brewster and North Salem, Flowers, Gardens and Flowering Trees, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | No Comments »

16×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
$440.00 plus $25 shipping and insurance within the Continental United States. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for International purchases or with any questions.
I liked this painting from the time I brought it home from the painting spot by the lake. However, I never varnished it because I [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Brewster and North Salem, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Peach Lake and Brook, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

16×20″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on sealed, primed hardboard
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Below is the painting in its initial form, as it came home from my plein air expedition. I was always bothered by that large piling so close to the center of the painting. Adjusting the composition, in this case, was [...]

16x20 and larger, Available, Cold Spring and Garrison, Currently In Gallery, Demos/Work in Progress, Fall, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River Paintings, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

12×16″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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This week I’ve been working on touching up paintings done previously. Often I am not 100% happy with a completed painting. I hold off on varnishing those for as long as possible, so that I can make [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Lighthouses, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold, Tarrytown and Hastings Area | 4 Comments »

When I walk into my future studio in Palenville, I get discouraged by how much renovation work there is to do, and how long it’s going to take before I can get this space up and running. It’s got great potential, with 14 windows and two exterior doors, and about 600 square feet of working [...]

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11×14″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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This painting was a composite of two photos. Often when I work from photos, I need to find several in order to satisfy what I feel is necessary to make a good painting. When I’m out on location, painting [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Landscape, Lighthouses, Sold, Sunrise/Sunset | 1 Comment »

10×8″, Oils on canvas
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This is a plein air painting that I did at New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. It was a beautiful day, and I set up in the courtyard garden facing the conservancy building. Just as I was finished setting up, [...]

8x10 and smaller, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | 2 Comments »

16×12″, Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard
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Visiting the Hudson River School show at the Thomas Cole Historical Site last Friday made me think about many of my own paintings of the Hudson River, and how our contemporary, plein air pieces fit into the [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Boats and Ships, Golden OPEN Acrylic Paintings, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Nyack Area, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Brewster and North Salem, Flowers, Gardens and Flowering Trees, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

6×8″, Oils on canvas covered hardboard
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I went to paint by a lake in Newburgh, New York with some friends from the Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters. This little boat by the [...]

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

10×8″, Oils on Raymar canvas panel
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My plein air painting buddy, Sue, wanted to go paint at Nyack Beach State Park this morning. Conditions were freezing cold, very windy, and overcast. I was honestly not thrilled about this idea, but didn’t want my friend to [...]

8x10 and smaller, Flowers, Gardens and Flowering Trees, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Quadricentennial Series, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Nyack Area, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | No Comments »

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.
What’s with the meteorologists these days? It was supposed to be overcast and raining, but I awoke to brilliant sunshine and mild temperatures. After all the rain [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation | 3 Comments »

12×16″, Oils on Raymar canvas panel
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This painting was started on location along the Hudson River waterfront in Athens, NY last weekend. I started setting up to paint at 9am, admiring the way the sun lit up the side of this little red building by the shore. Within [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Quadricentennial Series, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | 1 Comment »

6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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Today was heavily overcast, with showers predicted. I had a hard time deciding whether or not head over to the Hudson River to paint at Boscobel. In [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Cold Spring and Garrison, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Quadricentennial Series, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

5×7″, Oils on Ampersand Gessoboard
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This is the 400 year anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. I am doing a series of Hudson River paintings to commemorate that event, and this is the first! This fabulous, huge yellow ship came down the [...]

8x10 and smaller, Boats and Ships, Cold Spring and Garrison, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Quadricentennial Series, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Sold | No Comments »

5×7″, Watercolor and ink on Fabriano Artistico 140# hp
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Every so often, I like to play with paints and ideas like a child in a sandbox. Today I did some small plein air [...]

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My friend MaryLou Roberts sent along this story today. It is a true story from the Washington Post. I think it says a lot about our society, and it made me realize that one of the things I love most about painting, and plein air painting in particular, is that it forces me to “stop [...]

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18×24″, oils on stretched canvas
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I used a smaller, plein air version of this scene as a field study to paint this larger work inside the studio. This painting is still wet, and since it’s too large to fit in my light filtering box, there’s [...]

16x20 and larger, Fall, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River School, Landscape, Olana and Hudson NY, Sold | 2 Comments »

8 x 6″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard, unframed
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A couple of times a year, I go on photo expeditions with my painting buddy Sue to collect painting references. I painted this from one of the photos I took at Muscoot Farm. I love painting [...]

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

6×8″, oils on sealed, primed hardboard
Custom framed
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This painting was started a few weeks ago en plein air and finished up in the studio. I love this view of the Hudson River and [...]

8x10 and smaller, Available, Beacon, Hudson River Paintings, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location | No Comments »

12 x 16″, Oils on Canvas covered hardboard
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This is a plein air painting that I did awhile back of the famous water tower along the Hudson River at Hastings-on-Hudson. There was a [...]

8x12 to 12x24, Available, Hudson River Paintings, Landscape, Plein Air--painted on location, Tarrytown and Hastings Area | No Comments »

I’m working on finishing up a commissioned painting today, and don’t know if it will be done in time to post it here for today’s painting. So, I thought instead, I’d provide this link for you to click on for your entertainment. Now you’ll all know what plein air painters really face when we head [...]

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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.

8x10 and smaller, Brewster and North Salem, Fall, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Peach Lake and Brook, Plein Air--painted on location, Sold | 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 [...]

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

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16×20″, oils on sealed, primed hardboard
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From this spot nestled in the Catskill Mountains, there are gorgeous views from every angle. I can’t wait to go back in different seasons to experience the changes. This was painted from a photo I took while [...]

16x20 and larger, Catskill Mountains, Greene County, Hudson River Valley, Landscape, Sold, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »