IDLE RIVER

This is the view I was painting in the photograph below. My goals were to flatten the trees into shapes and to capture the orange-yellow light of the setting sun reflecting off the boats. I also liked how the white sailboat in the shadows turned blue and had to keep waiting until the boat drifted into sideview.

12x12in. on birch panel. oil SOLD!

Painting on Brewer Creek

Sunday was a clear evening down in Sherwood ForestMD. I painted until dusk on the shore of Brewer's Creek. I grew up calling it by another name which Iprefer, the Idle River.

Painting on Brewer Creek

A passing Kayaker snapped this photo of me painting at water's edge with Maggie.

Kilgore Falls

Last sat. weather was so clear and cool I drove out to Harford Co. MD's highest waterfall and painted on site.Kilgore Falls is a 10 min hike into the woods. I set up deep in the shadows. The sun broke through the trees in little bursts of bright color. It was a 2 hour color sketch but it was good to get out into the world and sit in woods and try to capture a fleeting moment. I will probably
re-work this sketch and deepen the shadows.
It was quite dark when I painted it in the woods and the painting is very pale under brighter lighting conditions. oil on birch panel 12x12 in SOLD

cairn II

This cairn sits atop Big Crow as well. It may be closer to the Nun da ga o ridge trail that links Big Crow with Mt Weston in the High Peaks region of the Adirondack Mts.

18x26in pastel

granite detail

A close up detail of the granite rockface from my pastel. the texture of the mineral colors reminds me of Jackson Pollack's "Lavender Mist." Perhaps this is where my direction is heading. This is what the rock pictures are really about.

The cairns are about place. This is about markmaking.

Summerhouse

This house in Keene Valley gets the first rays of the morning sun. as it rises up over the mountain. I am always facinated by the color of these pine trees. Sometimes they look orange. sometimes violet. I have painted this house before a year ago (older post) I think this one captures the warm morning light in August even better, oil 9x9in.

SOLD at the High Peaks show 2010