by | | Just For Fun, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
This is just a fun painting I did for Devon Horse Show Art Gallery. The original half sheet watercolor sold at First Night. Limited Edition Prints, enhanced by artist’s hand with color pencils, are now available. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Flowers, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor, Uncategorized
A small group of us gathered for years in the garret studio of a fellow artist and it was way up here that I imagined myself as the sun and tried to capture how the sunflowers were so happily reaching toward the sunlight from the darkness beneath their beautiful viridian leaves. I used transparent watercolors on 300 lb Arches acid-free paper. Sadly, this image does not show the brilliance of the original painting, especially the intense violets and bright blue cobalt. The painting sold immediately to a Collector. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Flowers, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
Poppies Popping was just an idea swirling in my brain when I began to paint it in April at the shore. I used transparent watercolors on a full sheet of Arches 300 lb cold press 30″ x 22″ paper. My critique group voted down the black frame (which I felt really popped the poppies) that I had ordered to go with the painting and its 5″ acid-free mat in favor of a pale platinum gold frame. My daughter-in-law loves the painting with the black frame, so if it doesn’t sell from this show, I’ll give it to her, with my love, re-framed in black. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Paintings, Real Places, Transparent Watercolor
Once again I had to work fast en plein air – this time I had to finish Low Tide at Littlefield Farm before the incoming tide reached the spot on Mansion Beach where I had set up my easel and transparent watercolors to paint this very early Block Island farm. The original painting was a “half sheet” (15″ x 22″) but I didn’t like all that sand, so I cut the bottom off. I don’t think it needs those extra inches of sand. What do you think? Because this is one of my favorite paintings, it was years before I could put it up for sale, and then it sold immediately here in Pennsylvania. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Landscape, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
I did three paintings of sugar maples. All three are here – keep scrolling down to see them. The first, Sugar Maple Hill, (below) is an early transparent watercolor that I painted from memory remembering my days at school in New England. It sold immediately from a Philadelphia Gallery to a Philadelphia Collector. This second Sugar Maple Hill (below) was painted and given to a friend who was always there for me – in good times and in bad – and who loved this transparent watercolor. This third painting I called simply Sugar Maples (below). It, too, I painted from memory, and it also sold the very first time it was displayed here in Pennsylvania. When I compare the three paintings, brushstrokes get looser with each new rendering. Painting Orpheus Revels sets in three days makes one deliver paint to canvas fast and I did Revels for years at about the same time I was painting the latter two Sugar Maples. Hooray for Orpheus! Hooray for loose, fun brushstrokes. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
by | | Boats, Paintings, Transparent Watercolor
Down at Beach Haven we learned at a very young age to sail sneakboxes and race around Mordecai Island. If a Skipper or Skipperette could sail a tricky, tippy sneakbox, he or she was ready to graduate on to Comets, Lightnings, E-scows, and could definitely handle a Catboat. This transparent watercolor of Catboats Sailing was my first. I was commissioned to do two more “just like it,” but of course each was a little different – all had catboats, blue sky with white clouds and blue water with whitecaps. I wanted the viewer to feel the wind. Share this page on:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new...
