Three paintings in progress

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Low Tide – closeup on Newtown Creek

[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Image”][/siteorigin_widget] From time to time when I’m painting and exploring at Newtown Creek, I will point my camera down to the water. Low tide reveals much more than mud. Newtown Creek has been a dumping ground for anything imaginable for 200 years. The larger visible items are varied, broken and random. What variety of […]

Tonal Studies

I’m getting ready to start my larger paintings, buying paper and paints and new brushes. In the meantime, I’ve been working on some quick studies of landscape views that I captured in plein air paintings or photos. Here are ten tonal studies, quick sketches meant explore possible larger compositions. For color I used only burnt […]

Studio Painting – Plank Road

The paintings I’m making for my project Recovered Landscapes: Newtown Creek will be large. I’m used to painting watercolors on-site, making quick small sketches that capture a lot of immediacy. Returning to the studio however, allows me to paint on an expanded scale. The challenge is to maintain the energy in the work. Here is a medium-scale […]