Spoons in the Sink

This is something different for me (a still life). 8x10.

Painted from this cool picture: http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/photo/spoons

House on Deer Lake

16x20 - House on Deer Lake

The house is dreamed up, but the lake is from the beautiful Walton County, FL on 30A

 Foreground close up

 house close up

 

 blocking in

 Deer Lake

Palm in the Marsh

Next one up...I'll have to change this one around to fit my idea but at least it's a starting point.

I did 3 practice paintings, each under 1.5 hours to get the feel for what I want in the bigger painting. This is the one I liked the best.

 Underpainting for the above

No underpainting for this one - I think my river shape is a little too sharp

House on the hill

This was a quick one. 6x8, 1 hour

St. Marks Canal

Finished this practice painting (from a picture taken at a trip to St. Marks years ago). I always knew I'd paint the scene, but tried to turn the gray day into a more sunny version. I borrowed a few palm trees from other scenes at St. Marks and the Wakulla river.

 

 

 

Demo Landscape

These are the stages of a painting I did early this month working from a demo from another artist (Ron Guthrie) on WetCanvas. It was a good exercise. I wouldn't say it's finished, but I don't have time to do any more on it!

-------WIP steps ----------

Heron in the Pond - limited palette

This is a quick study/challenge to paint a scene using 2 complementary colors. I chose the Yellow Green/Red violet combination (plus white).

St. Marks

I think I'll paint this next

or this..

Cloud Practice

This is mixture of clouds from different times of day and weather. Just for fun.

Cloud at St. George

11x14

I decided not to do a larger painting yet

 

I spent all night scanning through my digital pics until I finally came across this picture I took in 2008.  I knew it was there somewhere, and I've been waiting (on what?) to paint this for some time!  I'll do a small practice version before I attack a larger canvas.

Nebula Sunset

11x14

Mountain Retreat

11x14

 

Willows by the Lake

11x14

I didn't plan this one very well.  In the end I didn't like the curve of the lake in the foreground, and I should've made the tree smaller so it wasn't squished up against the top.  Also, it seems like two paintings, a landscape, and a Dr. Suess scape!  Just for practice, so that's ok!

Cypress Tree Bottom

Working on a new one based on a Cypress Tree from Cherry Lake, Madision

 I can't decide on the chroma...natural or bright?

 

11x14

I guess it ended up more toward natural..I guess it's hard to get out of the comfort zone!

Palms on Point

11x14

 

From a picture taken at St. Marks, minus the mud

Rainy Day in Ellijay

9x12

From this scene in Ellijay, GA

 

Cypress Bog

Cypress Bog 9x12

 

From a scene on the side of Meridian Rd