Liquid lunch-sold

Oil on canvas, 6" x 6"

A recent trip to Boston yielded some nice photos of people enjoying the spring weather.

Workshop

I took a workshop yesterday with Clayton Beck, a very good painter who is a protege of Richard Schmid. We worked on values- using a middle value as the lightest light in one sketch, the darkest dark on another. In the afternoon we did a long pose with our model and I chose to work with dark values. It's really hard not to reach for that white to make bright highlights! It was a great exercise in controlling values and I intend to try it some more.

Moonrise, Sachuest

Oil on canvasboard, 8" x 10"

Mills Tavern- Sold

Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

This piece was a commission.

Queen Anne's lace, Aquidneck- sold

Oil on canvasboard, 6" x 8"

Providence sunset III

Oil on board, 8" x 10"

This was actually painted just before the previous post.

Providence sunset II

Oil on canvasboard, 6" x 8"

Another little sky painting...

Tulips and rhododendrons-sold

Oil on canvas, 16" x 20"

While I have been trying to paint land/seascapes for Save the Bay, I keep trying to make time to paint some of the flowers now coming up in my yard. I painted most of this over a week ago and finally put the last few dabs of paint on it yesterday.

Fishing at Fort Wetherill-sold

Oil on canvasboard, 6" x 8"

Lately I've been trying to do more paintings either with water in them or relating somehow to marine themes for the upcoming Save the Bay show.

In the sun

Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

Contemplation-sold

Oil on board, 8" x 10"- Sold

Sunset Providence-sold

Oil on panel, 8" x 10"

Another sky, painted from the overlook in East Providence.