Field Work

One of the pleasures of landscape painting is being IN the landscape!  One of the disciplines is drawing it...these are a series of thumbnail sketches with my notes - my favorites out of the lot of 12 or so.  Even though this is a very busy time of year with spring semester finishing up - giving exams, entering grades, closing up classrooms soon - I've enjoyed getting out into the beauty of spring to observe and draw its arrival!   New paintings - coming SOON! 

And - more trees and branches

Ugh -- work is keeping me busy !  I hope to work more on this in the next few days , but I am progressing - a little! 

3 Feet of Tree Line

I'm back from break and working again on this large landscape.  I think I'm done with the 3 feet of tree line in the background.  It may look rather straightforward but, the right side has light showing through and the colors are somewhat different than the left side, which shows a deeper woods. So, though it's incremental, I have made progress amid my starts and stops!