Controlling the Values in a Painting

In paintings like the one below, it is essential to plan the value range of the scene in order to recreate the striking contrast of light.

A Place in Northern Spain

Skin in Watercolor

A simple sketch to study skin color temperature.

Boy in Watercolor

After the Snow Storm

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

Afternoon after the Snow Storm

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