"She walks the Sodden Pasture Lane"

24x30 Oil on canvas

When the World Turns Black and White

"When the World Turns Black and White"

24x30

Oil on canvas

Let it Snow

 On the easel and well underway.

 24 x30 Oil on canvas

Getting the fork ready

This ones almost done...

 

Shrubbery

More work on the grass and trees appear.

Second Pass on the Grass

I remember in my early years the hopeless challenge of painting grass.

I've come to enjoy the challenge in my later years.

Painting it the way it "feels".

 Grass you want to walk barefoot in, grass you want to lay down and roll around in..

I'm starting to get it.

 

The Grass is Always Grayer

Back to the barns.

 I was feeling not so good about this until I worked in the shrubbery. 

It looked tight and stiff, but it is wood after all.

Now I'm getting the good  opposing "structure and nature" feeling that I was looking for.

The canvas is filled.

Not So Sure

 The more I do, the less I'm liking this one. 

It seems large canvases provide me the opportunity the get too controlled and tight. 

But, the struggle will continue. 

I see things I can do to loosen it up, and there's a lot of blank canvas that will change hopefully things.

Double Trouble

Taking on the second barn

 

Allison Road

"Allison Road Barns"

18 1/2 x 26 1/2

Oil on hardboard

 

Big Barns

 

The Return of the Big Barns

Background to foreground, the start of a new one

24x30 

Raising Kane

"Kane Road Barn"

8x8 oil on birch panel

 

Rising

"Rising"

8x8

 Oil on birch panel

 

Another Endless Barn

 "Endlessly"

8x8 Oil on birch panel

Outside In

"Outside In"

8x8 oil on birch panel

 

Small Barn 4

 Another small barn today

8x8 oil on canvas panel

Small Barn 3

"Split Rock Barn"

8x8

Oil on hardboard

 

Small Barn2

 Another small work.

8x8 oil on hardboard

Small Barn 1

 The first of some small works happening...

8x8 oil on hardboard

Two Barns

Set up to cure for a bit, before I get back to these twin barns

 

Steeple Chase

 "Steeple"

24x12 Oil on birch panel

Plein air at a local farmers market, tweaked in the studio

Boltonville Barns

"Boltonville Barns"

16x18

Oil on hardboard

Windowed

 Part of the curing time, is also part of the critiquing process.

Barn 302 needed that top window.

Roof and a Rest

 Roof is on, time to go up on the wall for an extended cure time

Growing Barn 302

Barn 302 is well underway.

New Barn

The beginnings of a new barn.

28 x 9 oil on hardboard

 

Stretched

"Stretch"

24x30

Acrylic on canvas 

Stretching It

It'll be a loon

Thanks to Mark Olsen for the great reference photo

Taking the Red Eye

"Red Eye" 

11.5 x13.5 

Oil on hardboard

A little More Looney

On the easel

 

Days End

"Days End"

5x7

Oil on canvas panel

 

Studying

A study for the next barn...

 

Camp

"Camp"

10 x 8

Oil on canvas panel

 

Unintentional Double Dip

or how I managed to put one work in two simultaneous exhibitions...

 

I submitted "Rockbrook Barn" to the NOAPS Spring International On-Line Exhibition through Juried Art  Services in early April. After submitting (and after the deadline) I realized the image I uploaded didn't meet their criteria (size and ppi). There were serious warnings on the submission page about having the image correct or it would be tossed, so I assumed I wouldn't make the cut. I said to myself "I just threw that money away.., it was a long shot anyway" and promptly forgot all about it

So I entered "Rockbrook Barn" into the Fredric Remington Members Juried Art Exhibit a couple weeks later. It was accepted into the show and won third place! Thank you all at the Remington.

Last night about 2am I remembered about the NOAPS show so I logged in to view it. As I scrolled down through the works..."Rockbrook Barn" was there.

NOAPS SPRING INTERNATIONAL ON LINE EXHIBITION

So...two shows, one work. I'm still not sure how I made it into NOAPS. But I'm thrilled about being a part of both exhibitions.

In Bloom

 "Forsythia"

18 x 24

Oil on Hardboard

Gabriels Barn

"Gabriels Barn"

16 x 20

Oil on cradled wood panel

 

Barn Door's Open

There's a new barn on the easel...

Forsythia 23

 This one has been languishing in the studio corner for a couple years. 

It's back on the easel.

Honorable Mention

 "Brewster River Mill'

received an Honorable Mention Award at the

Adirondack Artists Gallery 25th Juried Show.

Winter Willows

 "Winter Willows"

11 3/4 x 17 3/4

Oil on hardboard

Winter Willow

"Winter Willows"

Second pass

 

Wintering

 "Winter Willows"

First pass

snow barn

 

Winter Cabin

"Winter Cabin"

15 1/2 x 30

Oil on hardboard panel

Cabin Life

Up to dry, then back at it...

 

Left to Right

 Working left to right today

Top Down

 Working from the top down

Woodsy

Don't paint the trees. Make marks that look like trees...

15.5 x 30 new one is underway.