In Plein Air

Here is an example of a painting done alla prima. This is an 8x10" museum quality polyester canvas hardboard.

Blue Pond

This is a 10x8" oil painting on cotton canvas mounted on hardboard.

Impressionist Landscape

This work is in oil on hard-stock paper primed with tinted acrylic gesso. The broken color in the style of the impressionist painters Joaquin Zorolla and Frank Benson.

Dividing the Catch. Zambezi River c. 1931.

More Spontaneous Watercolor Studies

Here are two more small studies.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paris Street

Rainy Afternoon

This is an 8x9" watercolor study.

Watercolor Study

This is a more spontaneous approach.

Bangkok Street

Marina Ride

This is a 16x12" gouache on Canson Watercolor paper. This particular cold press paper has a fine texture suitable for detailed work.

Free Ride

Gouache on Gesso

This is a gouache and prismacolor painting on cardboard stock.

Unexpected Storm

Unfinished Villa

An 8.5x11" gouache on watercolor paper.

Somewhere in Tuscany

Oil Painting on Archival Paper

This 7.5x6" artwork was painted with Classic Artist Oils and Daler Rowney Georgian 1783. The scene is from a street in a coastal city somewhere in South America.

Store in Main Street

The sketch had to be somewhat detailed to preserve the character of the scene.

A More Complex Scene

In this 9x12" lake scene the challenger was to achieve appropriate color gradation of the background and working with soft, lost and hard edges.

Lake Sunshine

To prevent the scene from become utterly generic I drew a more detailed sketch.