Landscape: watercolor and ink

Detail from sketchbook drawing

Winter Thicket

Ink
5" x 5"

12 x 12

Near Bullit Reservation

Oil on canvas board c. 18" x 20".  Took me a long time to do this; lots of changes, particularly color arrangements, brush stroke or paint application decisions, fighting myself about realism, representation and abstracting details.
The change of seasons seems to be running in our direction here so it seemed appropriate to post it.  Finished it last month.

Recent pen and ink drawings

Sketchbook/Conway/Fall

I'm working on a picture of the scene represented by the two ink drawings at the bottom and have been using them (and the exercise of doing them) to understand the value possibilities and where I'd like to head with color, too. I took some photos one day while driving around Conway and Ashfield and have decided to try and do a series of watercolor pictures. Above them is a watercolor sketch of that scene; the other an ink and watercolor sketch of another piece I plan to do.

2011 Post #1

Although my postings have been few since August 2010 (actually only one)
my work has continued....although most of it remains unphotographed. I have managed,

however, to make some images and have added them here. I did some pictures in October in Shelburne and the watercolor/gouache directly above is one from that effort. It was made while a shower passed through the area.

The remainder of the work, with the exception of the two pieces at the top, are of recent vintage and incorporate charcoal/watercolor/graphite/wash in combination or alone.

Pastel and charcoal (#1); charcoal (#2).

Will sunflowers and sunshine ever return?

The sunflowers were done in 2007, maybe toward the end of the summer; the boats in 2003 (or so). After a season of snow unlike winters of recent memory, I'm ready for longer days, warmer temperatures and the colors of spring.