Daylilies at Larisa Park

Gouache on paper, 6" x 8"

I've fallen back in love with gouache. It's really nice to work outdoors with something that dries immediately, is opaque, and uses water instead of turp or mineral spirits. It's so easy to make changes, I don't know why it's not more popular.

Shade garden studies

I've been wanting to do a larger painting of our shade garden, like, SOFA sized, so I decided to do some sketches first. Yesterday I worked on a few pencil sketches, and this morning I did the color sketch on the bottom. It's painted with gouache, which I used to use all the time as an illustrator, but haven't used for probably a couple of years. I was disappointed but not surprised to find that a number of my tubes of paint had dried up, but there was still enough usable paint to make it work.

The Fruit Smoothie stand

Oil on canvas, 6" x 6"

Another sunny afternoon in Newport.

Rock shadow

Oil on canvs, 24" x 30"

Bartending reflections

Oil on canvas, 6"x 6"

A view of the bar at the Clark Cook House restaurant in Newport.

Afternoon, Haines Park

Oil on panel, 8" x 10"

View from Sachuest

Oil on panel, 8" x 10"

On a recent trip to Newport we managed to get some half decent weather to do a little plein air painting. The view from Sachuest, with the light catching the front of St. George's school on top of the hill in the distance, is really beautiful.