The Setup

  This is a painting I did from a still life that i had arranged this summer. I photographed it then but didn't do this painting til just recently, so it is from one of the photos I took.
I chose the name Setup because it came into my mind and I like it.   Please enjoy this summer setup and if you can please comment.   Thank you for viewing.  

  12"by 16" oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Last Light

This painting is based on another of our photos from our trip to the gulf coast this summer. The star of this painting is the sky as the last rays of sun hit the water as night decends.  Please enjoy this and feel free to comment.   Thanks everone for viewing.

Oil on Gallery wrapped canvas  11 by 14

California Dreaming

Boy it seems forever since I've added a painting to this blog.  I do apologize and plan to keep this as current as I can from now on.   Here is a painting I did for the online workshop I have been taking.  The workshop is in the The Complete Artist and run by Richard Robinson.  For October we have been doing sunrises and sunsets in harmonious colors.   I chose Yellow Orange/Blue Violet for my colors in here with a just a touch of Cad yellow light.  Yellow Orange was made by using Yellow Ocre and white with the Blue violet added in to make it darker.  For the Blue Violet I used Ultra Bl, Cad red light and Al Crim with just a touch of Yellow Ocre to gray it down.   Please enjoy and feel free to comment.

Cherokee Autumn

This is the painting that I will be putting in the window of our gallery  which is located in The Market Common, a new business area near Myrtle Beach, SC.  It will stay there the whole month of September.  I based this painting on a photo provided by Neil Empsall, then completely changed the season from summer to fall and the location of the stream to Cherokee, NC.  I decided on Cherokee since we had a stream very much like this running behind our hotel room.   Thanks for looking and comments always welcome.

16 by  20 oil on gallery wrapped canvas.