Beautiful French Countryside

This is one of those beautiful motifs you find everywhere in France.

Midday Sun. French Countryside.

Charcoal Sketches

Some sketches of bird behaviors.

Green heron with the catch

Sittelle torchepot about to fly.

Landscape in Gouache

A view of one of the beautiful barns you often see in Vermont's countryside, USA.

Vermont Sunshine

A Winter Scene

Snow storm in Nordic Europe. Gouache on paper.

After the Storm

Sunlight Drama

Landscape sketch on cardboard coated with acrylic gesso.

Reflections

Windmill Without Sweeps

Another gouache landscape on newsprint paper. The paper is very fragile but offers a beautiful texture to work with and it forces me to paint with  the utmost economy of brush strokes.

Windmill, Stockholm, Sweden

Sea Man

A charcoal drawing captured with carefully placed marks made with the side of the pencil and a few lines. To achieve the likeness the sketch must be observed at a distance.

Man under the Sun. Suez Canal, Egypt.

Buryatian Forest

A scene in gouache on gesso-coated paper.

Morning in the Forest

People in the Streets

I think the purpose of sketching people should be -aside from practicing mechanical skills and keeping the proportions- to capture the particular essence of the form in that moment in time; the "Gestalt" if you will.

Simple Sketches in Charcoal

Its Autumn But Winter is Coming!

A 35-min. sketch on mixed-media paper. Winter is coming!

Frozen Winter by the River

Sunny Scene

In honor of the Buryatian artist Bato Dugarzhapo. This is an attempt to imitate one of his paintings and wonderfully free style using gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunny by the Beach