Impressionist Landscape Painting of quaint house by a salt marsh

acrylic on 140 lb paper

11 x 15

I found this composition of a small quaint home by a inter coastal waterway quite interesting. The small red boat beckons to take you out in the waters, maybe to a place where the hermit crabs line the banks of this salt marsh area.

There are certain time in an artists life where there are dead spots and energized times in the process of creation. As a painter, I find that if not given the time to be in non productive period, the process of working at the easel can sometimes get repetitive and produce tired and sometimes stale work. Artists I think, need that time off, to recharge and sponge up the life and energy that is around them. When that is completed, productivity happens and sometimes it happens rather suddenly and with a whirlwind of activity at the easel. Kind of like, when it rains, it pours, but seldom does it drizzle. Drizzle does not produce any lasting work worthy of staying in the game.

I think I am now entering a phase of high productivity, as I feel a slow time now has passed and I have much work to do, with a renewed vigor and energy. I look forward to this new exploration in my painting. It will be interesting to see, how and if, my work is going to take on any new things in the process, or if I will approach my subjects with a different outlook.

Time will tell.

Well, the new year has rolled in, and am excited to get working on some new material. I am hoping to concentrate more on how colors relate to one another, and let the subjects be assembled by shapes, and colors, more so, than before. I look forward to letting the energy of the brush become more dominant and line to play a bigger part in my works. All of this of course, is to be approached with the, "anything can happen" policy, and I always leave myself open for variations in the theme and subject. How a work evolves, is how it evolves. I can direct, .. but things can happen along the way which I did not anticipate. That is one of the exciting things about exploring the creative process. It holds in store mysteries, not yet revealed, until the work, becomes a work in progress.

Lunar Solstice

16x20

acrylic on canvas

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And so on the night of the lunar eclipse and the solstice that was occurring, I ducked outside to observe and document on my sketch pad as much as I could before my hand froze. Contented that I soaked in as much pertinent visual information as I could, I headed back inside to the warmth of the house. Once there, I could digest the sketches and translate them into this painting.

December in the Village

11 x 14

acrylic on canvas

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Somewhere in Vermont, maybe East Arlington. The two figures in the painting are returning from the general store, having just bought flour and butter to make a pie.

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This is my small works painting that is going off to Moss Norway for the David Sandum art charity. The benefit has captured the attention of artists worldwide and the media as well. I send my congratulations and best wishes to David for a successful endeavor. http://davidsandumart.posterous.com/call-for-artists-twitter-art-exhibit-in-moss