back in the cool morning air

12"x12" oil plein air

Finally got outside to paint this morning. Nice crisp air. I went back to my buddy's farm where I did the grain silos painting oh so long ago. I don't think I've done a plein air piece since spring so I was happy with the experience and the piece I think. I always need to see them in a month or two to gauge the result.

Might just do the cityscape this afternoon. Will probably use yesterdays piece for reference.

Catskills' Longhorns

30"x40" oil/canvas

Spring is approaching and I'm still doing winter livestock. This time the boys make an appearance. We saw this image just before the Catskills received their 4 ft of snow. Thats just after we received our 4ft. I purposely keep the figures vague. It's a mood scene not neccessarily a landscape.

More cows

3- 6"x6" oil/canvas

Yep, still doin' em

running on 3 hours sleep and firing on 3 cylinders...back at it tomorrow.....hopefully the turbo kicks in...

mason dixon snowstorm

12"x12"
oil/canvas


I've had a hankerin' to do some snowy farm scenes but we haven't had the snow. When I heard the latest storm was just going to clip southern Pa. I decided to jump in the car with my camera and head to taneytown MD to gather a bunch of photos. I was questioning the decision when I got to Hanover PA. there were only flurries. No worries, 5 miles later I could barely see the road! Never got as far as Taneytown. I took a side road through some great farm country and just kept jumping out and clicking away. I was loving it and getting covered in snow. I started to realize I was most interested in the slight variations of dark mass against the very snowy background. Today I will start a series of triptychs addressing this. It would have been fun to paint out of the van but I think I would have gotten it stuck. This is the first single painting. Believe me, it was really coming down!!!