Some recent additions

With the return of the winter season, I have once again had those urges to do snowy cold scenes.  There's something about the way the snow drapes over the bows of a pine tree.  Something about the oranges and yellows the snow pics up from the sky on a winter evening.  Even the play of bright white and dark blue in the highlights and shadows all make me want to smear some color.

 "Snowy Pines"

9x12 on masonite

$25

SOLD

 "All Plowed Out"

$25

SOLD

 "Snowy Fields"

11x14 on canvas

$25

SOLD

 "Winter Sunset"

9x12 on masonite

$25

Available

"Silence after the snow"

6x16 on masonite

$25

SOLD

New Discovery

"Hot Days are These" 

12x17 acrylic on watercolor paper
Not for sale

I recently realized that it wasn't only the act of painting I so much enjoyed. Rather it is the explosion of color that is possible. Also the ability to accentuate traits of certain things like the highlights on the tree.

Stuff that just pisses you off

"fffffuck..."

11x14 acrylic on canvas
Not for sale

There are just some things that no matter how many times, no matter how long you endure them, they just fucking piss you off every single time.  I think I hit it with this one, for me any way.

A Flurry of Activity

It always seems to happen this way to me.  For days, weeks, heck even months I won't paint a thing.  Then for a two week Christmas break, I paint like crazy(10 in all).

I guess it's the slow winter months that bring on my love of places.  After all, what do you have to do in the winter but stare outside and long for another place or time.  Oh sure, one might venture out, but with the recent cold ( -30 windchill) I think staying inside might be best. So I choose to use the time wisely and work on my painting skills.  Some proper lessons might not hurt.  Although I rather like going against what one is "supposed" to do.

Most of my recent paintings are based on the Adirondacks. So much material up there.  So many gorgeous vistas.  So many wonderful childhood and adult-time memories. 

"Upper Sargent Pond Sunset" 11x14 Acrylic on canvas. Thanks to Justin Farrell for the pic.
$95
Sold

 "The Silence of an Adirondack Winter" 12x24 acrylic on canvas.
$225
 Available

 "Loons in the distance" 11x14 acrylic on canvas.
 $50
Available
 

 "Get out the frog" 4x12 Acrylic on canvas
$35
Available
 

 "Frosty Blues"
Crane Pond, Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area
$175
SOLD

"8 mm Natural Roe"


This being my first post, I find it appropriate that it’s to show my first fish painting.  Fishing and the outdoors have always been a big part of my life.  We just returned from Alaska about a month ago after a two week fishing trip.  Full of inspiration and vigor, I decided it was time… 

“8 MM Natural Roe”
10x20 acrylic on canvas

Alaskan Rainbows feast on the eggs of returning salmon.  That's what this one was doing when it chose the wrong egg...  Or in this case a 8mm orange bead.    

I chose to build a frame myself for this painting.  Just pine but treated with a painting technique very much like the old timers made whitewash.  I thought the red went nice with the rainbow stripe.

 

This painting is for sale.  $350 frame included