Thursday, December 31, 2015

After the Snow Storm

Winter snow storms are a beautiful but difficult subject to paint in watercolor and gouache.

Afternoon after the Snow Storm

Monday, December 28, 2015

Beautiful French Countryside

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

Midday Sun. French Countryside.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Charcoal Sketches

Some sketches of bird behaviors.

Green heron with the catch

Sittelle torchepot about to fly.



Thursday, December 17, 2015

Landscape in Gouache

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

Vermont Sunshine

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

A Winter Scene

Snow storm in Nordic Europe. Gouache on paper.

After the Storm

Monday, December 7, 2015

Sunlight Drama

Landscape sketch on cardboard coated with acrylic gesso.

Reflections

Monday, November 30, 2015

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

Friday, November 20, 2015

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

Thursday, November 19, 2015

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

Monday, November 16, 2015

Its Autumn But Winter is Coming!

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

Frozen Winter by the River