Shade Tree

Shade Tree, Acrylic on Canvas, 20"x16", $800

This painting of a large tree was done using a palette knife and fracturing.  I wanted to capture the feeling of the foliage on a bright, summer day. I love the broken color and varied textures. 

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Two Pines

Two Pines, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x24", $750

This is a painting of Lake Champlain in the evening.  I love the last bits of color on the horizon after the sun goes down.  This painting was done using a palette knife on canvas.  I used just three colors (quinacridone crimson, Hansa yellow light, and phthalo blue) and white for this painting.

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Strawberries

Strawberries, Watercolor, 7"x10", $300

This is a painting I did to submit to "Living Colors", a juried show of watercolor paintings by living artists. It got in and was exhibited at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, VT for the last couple of months. I don't do many watercolors anymore, so this was a real reminder of how carefully planned watercolors need to be (no going back in later with that extra patch of yellow you forgot.)

Also, my paintings, "Portrait of a Tree-Autumn" and "Fractured Onions" (pictures below) have been accepted into the "Shades of Fall" juried small picture exhibition at the Bryan Gallery.  That show opens on Sunday, November 10.  Both paintings (they are framed) are for sale.  To purchase, call the Bryan Gallery at (802) 644-5100 or e-mail them at info@bryangallery.org.

SOLD - Portrait of a Tree-Autumn, Acrylic on Paper, 6.5"x6.5"

Fractured Onions, Acrylic on Paper, 6.25"x6.25", $195

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Channeling Van Gogh

Channeling Van Gogh, Graphite on Paper, 24"x18", NFS

I'm posting something a little different today.  After doing mostly small works this year, I've decided to focus on larger pieces for a while.  To get myself up to speed on the larger sizes, I thought I would start out doing some drawings.  They are relatively quick and they are great for working out compostition, values, and shapes. As you can see, the drawing is very loose - I was after the lines and masses, not photographic accuracy.

This drawing is of a vase of sunflowers from the garden.  Taking a page from Van Gogh, I included a few less than perfect specimens in the bunch, let the different blossoms droop if they wanted to, and left a bunch of leaves to break up the many round shapes of the blossoms.  I also took many photos so I can go back and refer to them later after the flowers die.

Note:  My Daily Paintworks Gallery continues to show my small works (click on icon at right.)  My web site (www.annavreman.com) has my collection of greeting cards and reproduction prints for sale.  It also has the contact information for some of my larger works which are on exhibit in area galleries. 
 

Cambridge Stream

Cambridge Stream, Acrylic on Canvas, 9"x12", NFS

Yesterday was a gorgeous late summer day.  I went to an afternoon plein air workshop with Eric Tobin in Cambridge, VT.  The workshop was held at the Porter Farm just below Mt. Mansfield along the Lower Pleasant Valley Road. This stream runs through the farm. 

I don't ordinarily paint outside - I am a studio painter by inclination - but it is good to get out there every once in a while to remind myself of some of the subtleties of natural light.  I know, you can't do that in one afternoon, but you have to start somewhere.  So, I went out there and came home with a sunburn and this painting.

Nightlife

Nightlife, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This is a quick study of the lights of the summer cottages along the lake.  In the summer, most of the cottages are occupied and lights flicker through the foliage of the trees.  Soon, the leaves will be gone and the cottages will be dark.  Because of the range of colors from light to dark, my camera did not accurately record the range of colors that make up the darkest areas.

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Sunset Over the Lake

Sunset Over the Lake, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This is a painting of Lake Champlain at sunset.  The range of colors that the lake reflects is amazing - from pale pastels, to steely grays (on cloudy, rainy days), to absolutely garish reds, yellows and oranges.  I chose something in the middle of the range.  I love the golden yellows the most.  And, as always, the best colors are after the sun has gone down. 

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Pear and Berries

Pear and Berries, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

Last winter when I was totally color starved, I bought some strawberries and spent a day setting up still lifes and photographing them for later use.  Yesterday, I decided to paint one of them.  I used a palette knife for most of the work.  I was experimenting with foreground and background colors and decided to use the pear colors for both - straight Pthalo Blue with varying amounts of Hansa Yellow Light for the background, then the same colors mixed with white for the foreground.

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Blueberry Bunch

Blueberry Bunch, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This is the second of my blueberry paintings.  I did another one last month.  This is how the blueberries grow in our yard - in big bunches, almost like grapes.  In the photo I used for this painting, I really liked the shadow patterns on the berries.

30 in 30 Challenge:  This is #6 for me, so I am a few days behind.  I'm scrambling to catch up -I hope by the end of the week.  I am learning (and relearning) some things about how I paint.  One thing is that I almost never completely finish a painting in one day. I always like to return to it the next day with fresh eyes and a sharp mind - I get better results.  Another thing is that when I feel pressed for time, I am apt to resort to safe subjects and techniques so I can be more certain of a salable result  - sometimes that is good, other times not so much.

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Autumn Birches Study

Autumn Birches Study, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This painting was an attempt to capture birches in autumn using a palette knife. I like the way the mountains and grasses turned out - definitely autumnal.  I think the trees and foliage worked pretty well, too.  Definitely a subject to return to. 

30 in 30 Challenge:  I got seriously behind last week - pretty embarrassing.  However, I am working hard to catch up.  So today, I got two small paintings finished and started blocking in a third.

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Hornet's Nest - #4 in the 30 Day Challenge

Hornet's Nest, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

Yup, I'm now officially one day behind on the 30 day challenge.  I spent the last two days at the Bryan Gallery in Jeffersonville, VT helping install their new exhibits: Living Colors - a juried show of watercolors by living artist members (I have one piece in the show), and an update of the Legacy Collection - an ongoing exhibit of work by 20 member artists, including members of the New England Plein Air Artists.Today I was back in my studio for part of the day; tomorrow will be another partial day.

This painting is of a hornet's nest that I collected last fall.  I found it hanging from a low shrub so it was easy to reach (it is also only a couple of inches across).  I waited until a hard frost had killed off the occupants, then snipped the twig it was attached to.  Paper hornet's nests seem so incredibly delicate and are actually quite beautiful.  I was lucky to get this nest since most of them are destroyed by an animal or bird looking for the larvae within days of a hard frost.

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Shadow Side of the Barn - #3 in the 30 Day Challenge

Shadow Side of the Barn, Acrylic on Canvas, 11"x14", $600

This painting is of a cluster of barns sitting on a hill near here.  When I took my photos, the side shown in the painting was in deep shadow.  The sun was hitting just a few spots on the south-west sides of the buildings.  This photo is a little over-exposed; the reds and oranges aren't quite as saturated as they look above. (My husband usually does my photography, but since I am posting daily, I am doing some of the photos myself - with much poorer results.)

This is painting number 3 in the 30 in 30 Challenge.  It is also the fifth in my current series of barn paintings.

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High Bush Cranberries - #2 in the 30 in 30 Challenge

High-Bush Cranberries, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This is a painting of a branch of high bush cranberries.  The bushes are truly loaded this year - the cardinals and cedar waxwings are going to be ecstatic. The berries will stay on the bush well after the leaves fall giving a splash of scarlet to an otherwise gray landscape.

This is painting number two in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  The idea for the challenge belongs to Leslie Saeta.  Almost 300 artists have signed on to paint a painting a day for the month of September - including me.  Fortunately there are no penalties for failing to create a painting every single day - I expect to do my best, but I am not always the fastest painter on the block.


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Primary Colors - #1 in the 30 in 30 Challenge

Primary Colors, Acrylic on W/C paper, 7"x5", $50

This is the first painting in the 30 in 30 challenge for September.  It is also the last beautiful summer day for a bit so fitting in a painting today was probably the biggest part of the challenge so far.  This week is a busy one, so more challenges await.

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Sunflower

Sunflower, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $195

This is one of the sunflowers that grew in my vegetable garden this year.  Every winter, the birds drop seeds all over. In the spring they get tilled into the garden and subsequently come up amid the vegetables.  I like to leave some of them if they are not in the way.  They add wonderful splashes of color among the orderly rows of produce.

I used Julie Oliver's fracturing technique on this painting. I love the textures and broken edges that using a squeegee introduces to the painting's surface.


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Blueberry Twig

Blueberry Twig, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

July and August are blueberry season in Vermont.  This is turning out to be a good year for them - lots of really big, super sweet berries.  This small branch of berries was on one of our bushes - past tense; we ate them!

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Moulin Rouge Sunflower

Moulin Rouge Sunflower, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This painting totally says summer.  Moulin Rouge is my favorite variety of sunflower just ahead of the big yellow ones with the brown centers, and the really shaggy Sole d'Oro sunflowers.  I grow a big row of the Moulin Rouge sunflowers in my vegetable garden each year - I'm more likely to pick them for the house when they are in a row by the corn than when they're in the flower beds. As a bonus, I leave a lot of the volunteers that show up, so I end up with a great supply for cutting and painting and feeding the birds.

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Sunset Reflections

Sunset Reflection, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 9"x10", $100

Although not intentional, I found that I fell back into my old work habit of taking July off this year. And the break was great. I rode my bicycle, worked in my flower and vegetable gardens, and just generally relaxed.  I am now back at my easel with new energy. 

I thought I would start back with an older painting that fits the summer weather and spirit. This painting resulted from an experiment in the use of lines and broken color. I liked the energy and liveliness of it.

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Maine Coast Fishing Dock

Maine Coast Fishing Dock, 20"x20", Acrylic on Canvas, $1200

I saw this fishing dock in a small town on the coast of Maine.  It is very similar to thousands of others up and down the coast.  I like all the clutter on them. I simplified the stuff on this one to make it work compositionally.

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Sun and Shadow

Sun and Shadow, 11"x14", Acrylic on Canvas, $600

This barn is in a nearby town.  I was really taken by all the roofs going in different directions, with the sun shining directly on some of them but not on others.  Unfortunately, the barn was a uniform weathered gray, which radically diminished the impact of the roofs.  So, I used my artistic license to turn the barn red.  Ah! Much better. 

Note: This painting is currently on display in the Art Barn at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.  To purchase this painting, call the Museum Store (802 895-3346 ext. 3144) or e-mail lwheeler@shelburnemuseum.org.

The Goat Barn

The Goat Barn, 9"x12", Acrylic on Canvas, $425

I really liked this old building sitting in the shadow of the much larger barns and silos around it.  Although probably a cow dairy for many years, the farm is now home to a herd of milking goats. This building is unused, although it shows the beginning signs of repairs.

Note: This painting is currently on display in the Art Barn at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.  It can be purchased by calling the Museum Store (802-895-3346 ext. 3144) or by e-mailing lwheeler@shelburnemuseum.org.

Weathered Barns

Weathered Barns, 11"x14", Acrylic on Canvas, $600

This is the second in my new barns series.  This set of barns is in Fairfax, a small town about 10 miles away.  I was drawn to the variety of blues and purples that I saw in the weathered wood.  I underpainted the entire canvas with magenta to give it a unifying purple boost.  After I got about half way through the painting, I realized I needed to move some walls and change some trim paint, so the barns no longer completely reflect "what was there".

Note: This painting is currently on display in the Art Barn at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.  It can be purchased by calling the Museum Store (802) 895-3346 ext. 3144) or by e-mailing lwheeler@shelburnemuseum.org.

Barns - Old and New

Barns-Old and New, 12"x12", Acrylic on Canvas, $600

This painting is the first in what has turned out to be a series of barns.  I choose a portion of the barn or group of barns and outbuildings that look interesting.  This barn is down the road from my house.  I really liked the juxtaposition of the old weathered wood and sawdust silo with the newer metal storage sheds.

Note:  This painting is currently on display in the Art Barn at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.  It can be purchased by contacting the Museum Store (802-985-3346, ext. 3144) or e-mailing lwheeler@shelburnemuseum.org.

Juncos

Juncos, 9"x10", Acrylic on W/C Paper, $100

In the winter, flocks of juncos visit our bird feeders and sit in our trees and shrubs.  This painting was an effort to capture them using acrylic and a palette knife.  I put in the central rectangle of color to give them some context, albeit an abstract one.  The tails of a couple of the birds extend outward into a white border, making the whole image a bit less formal.

Artist's Note:  The central rectangle is approximately 4.5"x7".  A white border around the whole piece increases the size of the image to 9" x 10".

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Three Geese

Three Geese, 11"x14", Acrylic on Canvas, $600

When I started this painting, I wanted to capture the effect of bright sunshine streaming in at an angle, bleaching the color out of the plumage on the sunlit side of the geese.  This was one of my earlier efforts with a palette knife.  I was really pleased with the textures I was able to get, especially the tail feathers on the front goose.

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Snowbound Farm

Snowbound Farm, 16"x20", Acrylic on Canvas, $300

In this painting, I wanted to play with the wonderful range of blues exhibited by a snowy landscape on a cold, winter day.  Shadows, especially, create a world of variety because of the way they follow the curves and contours of the snow, light blue in some places, much darker in others. 

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Winter Moon - SOLD

SOLD - Winter Moon, 20"x16", Acrylic on Canvas

I love painting moonlit winter landscapes.  The moonlight shines on the crusty snow creating a wonderland of competing blues and whites. It is absolutely amazing how far you can see on a moonlit night. In this painting, I combined moonlight with white birches to create a pattern of dark and light.

 

Soaring Above the Lake

Soaring Above the Lake, 20"x16", Acrylic on Canvas, $350

Lake Champlain has a wide variety of landscapes along its edges - swamps, beaches, rocks, pine forests, farm fields, and summer cottages.  This painting was inspired by a new park donated to the community by a local family.  Pine trees and scrub brush grow up to the edge of  a white sand beach. Just the place to be on a hot, summer day.

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Winter Silhouette

Winter Silhouette, 12"x24", Acrylic on Canvas, NFS

In the winter, Lake Champlain, and the sky above it, takes on a range of delicate colors from pale pink to lavender to cerulean blue.  The mountains are every shade of purple and lavender. Meanwhile, close in, the light has faded and most of the landscape goes dark, creating a silhouette to frame the distant view.

Autumn View

Autumn View, 8"x10", Acrylic on Canvas, $150

This painting is a celebration of the wonderful colors that the trees take on in the autumn.  I love how bright they are against the more muted colors of the fields and farm buildings.

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Lake Champlain Islands

Lake Champlain Islands, 12"x24", Acrylic on Canvas, $350

I am currently working on a series of new paintings for the Shelburne Museum's Art Barn (an art and crafts gallery featuring mainly Vermont artisans.)  So, while I work on those pieces, I thought I would take the opportunity to clean out some older works that haven't found a home and offer them at a discount.

This painting was inspired by the amazing greenness of summer in Vermont.  It's hard to imagine so much green until you see it.  After a long, gray winter, it is a wonderful sight.

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Silhouette

Silhouette, 12"x24", Acrylic on Canvas, $800

This painting was inspired by the view on one of my trips south to visit my family.  It was late in the day and the last rays of the sun were lighting a group of barns up on a hillside.  I wanted to capture both the intensity of the light in the distance and the mystery in the selectively illuminated shapes in the landscape. 

Note:  The foreground in this painting is actually a deep green and the upper clouds a deep bluish-purple.  Cameras can't quite get the full range of values that we painters work with.  Combined with the data loss that goes with shrinking the image for the web, and some of the subtlety of the original is lost.

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Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x12", NFS

This painting was inspired by the bittersweet vines that drape the trees on the Maine coast.  In autumn, as the leaves turn, the pale orange berries on the bittersweet burst open exposing brilliant orange-red seeds. 

Note: This painting is not for sale.

Orange Daisies

Orange Daisies, Acrylic on Canvas, 20"x16", $350

Upon arriving at my rental cottage on one of my trips south, I was greeted by a beautiful bucket of gerbera daisies sitting on the kitchen table.  I couldn't resist making a painting of it.  I went to the store to pick up a bunch of limes, oranges, and lemons, and set up this still life.  When I was done with the painting, I made ceviche with the fruit.

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Milkweed Pods a-Poppin'

Milkweed Pods a-Poppin', Acrylic on Paper, 10"x9", $100

This painting was an attempt to capture the energy and joy that I experience when I see milkweed seeds wafting on the breeze on a crisp, autumn day. I wanted to express the whimsy of bursting pods, popping seed-heads, and flying fluff.  I was happy with the result.

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Watching Sunset

Watching Sunset, Acrylic on Paper, 6.5"x6.5", $100

I love watching the sunset over the ocean.  This painting was done while I was on Jekyll Island in April. I wanted to capture the fleeting feel of the sunset, as well as the shadows on the sand.  I think I was able to capture the mood that I was after.

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Yellow Light - SOLD

SOLD - Yellow Light, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x24"

It seems that Lake Champlain has a 1000 moods. They are all interesting - stormy, calm, in summer or winter, frozen or not, on gray days and sunny ones, at sunset, moonrise, or the middle of the day.  I especially like the many effects of sun and moon on the lake when there is also snow on the ground.  The opportunities for reflections, shadows, and wonderful, unexpected colors increases dramatically in spite of the vast range of possibilities in the other seasons.  This painting was inspired by sunset on the lake - it feels cold and inviting at the same time.  And there is a peacefulness that goes with snow and sunset.

Spring Poplar

Spring Poplar, Acrylic on Paper, 6.5"x6.5", $100

At the edge of our yard, there is a young poplar that always gets its leaves a week or more before the maples around it.  So it gets a wonderful bright green glow while the maples are still a deep rusty red.  When the sun first comes over the hill, it strikes this bright green beauty while the rest of the trees are still in shadow.  The effect is a wonderful splash of brightness to welcome the day. In this painting, I did my best to capture that effect. 

This was a tough painting to get right - the greens were especially hard to match.  It turns out, though, that the photography was even harder to get right.  I think this is pretty good, but it picked up a bit more texture in the upper left than I feel there actually is, and the dark red in the center left is a bit stronger than in the actual painting.

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Portrait of a Tree - Autumn SOLD

SOLD- Portrait of a Tree-Autumn, Acrylic on Paper, 6.5"x6.5"

This painting was a stretch on several levels.  I started with an idea - I wanted to capture the essence of a tree in autumn.  What says tree?  I decided I needed a trunk, some foliage, and an anchor to the earth. Next I needed to figure out how to design that to get that core identity without getting detailed.  Then I had to decide what I wanted for a look - I decided to go for a fractured technique with palette knife, and keep it as abstract as I could. The colors, I think, say, "Autumn."  I am pleased with the result.

Note: To purchase this painting, please contact the Bryan Gallery at (802) 644-5100 or e-mail info@bryangallery.org.

Lemon

Lemon, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 10"x9", $100

This painting was an experiment in paint application and in the use of yellows and blues. I used a palette knife to apply the paint on gessoed watercolor paper. I like the way the lemon sits in its environment, its shadow merging with the surface it sits on. 

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Dandelions - Sold

SOLD - Dandelions, Acrylic on Paper, 10"x9"

Here in Vermont it is dandelion season - there are millions of dandelions everywhere you look.  After a long (and gray) winter, the golden yellow is absolutely gorgeous.  Plus, they have a wonderful honey scent - the bees know what they're doing. 

In this painting, I paired the golden yellow with a host of grays, whites and blacks (all made with red, blue, yellow and white paint - I almost never actually use black paint).  I placed the vase of dandelions in a bright sunny window, and set out to capture the blinding back light, the intense shadows and, of course, that gorgeous golden yellow.  Loads of fun.

Yellow Onions

Yellow Onions, Acrylic on Paper, 5"x7", $75

This painting is one of a series of onion paintings I did this winter.  I used onions as a readily available subject to experiment with a variety of color and paint application techniques that yielded a wonderful range of results. 

On this painting, I started out with a blue cloth under the onions (that was what was there), but as I painted, I realized that it really wasn't working. I changed the ground to green to see what that would do - it was exactly the effect I was looking for.

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Summer Heat

Summer Heat, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 4.25"x13.75", $250

As summer beckons, I was inspired to post this image - a sneak preview of days to come. This painting is based on a view of Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. Sometimes on hot days, the mountains take on the golden glow of the sunset. It can happen in the winter, too, but not as often.

To get the glow, I applied more than a dozen very thin layers of acrylic on 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper, drying each layer before applying the next. 

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Birches in Spring

Birches in Spring, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This painting is based on our local landscape here in Vermont.  In the spring, it seems that everything turns green at once - in a matter of days, the trees go from gray to a thousand shades of green.  I love when that happens, though I find it really hard to capture in paint.

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Maine Coast

Maine Coast View, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This painting of the Maine coast is based on a sketch I made some time ago.  I love the rocks protruding from the waves.  In the summer, the trees form a wonderful frame for the rough, broken landscape along the shore.

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Marshes in Spring

Marshes in Spring, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6", $100

This is my first attempt at capturing the colors and textures of salt marshes.  The marshes on Jekyll Island were just starting to show the first hints of green after the winter.  I always think spring greens have sort of a sour taste, so making them look right without putting my teeth on edge is always a challenge.  For this painting, I started with an orange underpainting.  I think it helped capture that sense of transition from winter colors to spring colors.

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Ocean Sunset

Ocean Sunset, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6"

One of the things I love to do is watch the sun set over water, whether it is Lake Champlain where I live, or over the ocean.  The way the light and colors play on the water is just amazing and endlessly varied. This painting is from my trip to Jekyll Island.  I really struggled to get the colors of the painting in the photo.  This is pretty close but not exact (this is clearly something I need to do more work on). 

Note:  This painting is available starting April 29 via E-Bay auction through Daily Paintworks.  Click the icon at right to bid.

Oyster Beds at Low Tide

Oyster Beds at Low Tide, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 6"x6"

This is another painting of the beaches on Jekyll Island.  I love the way the oyster beds and marshes look as they emerge from the ocean at low tide.  Also, I was surprised at how many of the dunes were covered with great masses of prickly shrubbery instead of the wispy grasses I usually associate with ocean views in the southeast. 

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