Which Way to Turn

Driving along Sweet air Rd in Baltimore Co. MD at sunset I have often passed this small Methodist church and wondered if the the world was trying to lead us away. The setting just feeds my facination with roadsigns and their graphic impact on the landscape and how they not only tell us where to go but where to look. oil 9x9in. SOLD

maryland barn

One evening in May around 5 pm I drove by this barn with incredible blue shadows on Whittiker Mill Rd in Harford Co. MD. oil 9x9in.

Cairn on Big Crow

One of my earliest climbs in the Adirondacks was Big Crow Mt.

It's a smaller peak with a spectacular view, another one of the great walks in Keene. I am attracted to how the light plays over these sculptural entities. I love painting rocks. You build a painting just as the cairn was built. This is a large pastel and I haven't quite decided how "finished" it will be. I am working from several different photo references and it is not my intention copy the photo exactly. Why do that?

pastel 18x26in.

Keene Dusk

Sitting on the deck of the Tippicanoe one evening I looked up to see the bright sunset behind me reflected in the windows of the old Victorian house in Keene. 11x14 oil

Morning light lll

This color sketch is the last in a tryptych of two buildings in Keene Valley that capture the light at both dawn and dusk in extrordinary ways. I usually walk out from the inn just past the school around 6 am with my thermos of coffee and the dog. I wait for the sun to come up over the mountain and when it strikes the town I am rewarded with long dramatic shadows and patterns of warm light. 9x9in. oil SOLD

Pegasus

This was just a quick sketch. As I was walking down Market street I spotted this remnant of the old Mobile station (now a health club) that someone hung over their garage.

I wasout of panels but I did have a cigar box I kept my oil pastels in. So I used that. I may frame it with the left over pieces. I just thought it was fun and unexpected. 9x9 3/4 oil

Hydrangias

Warm Summer dawn light shines in on a Keene Valley screened in porch. 9x9in oil