Orchard and Pasture

During my morning walk I noticed that the white and red blossoms of a wild growing apple tree along the trail looked lavender in the light overcast light and so we have today's painting: a rather minimalist painting, cooler colored and with a lower tonal value than usual for me.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Market Garden, Early Onion Plot

As predicted, I started over. I probably should have gone with my first instinct and not bothered with a larger scene -- but oh well, I've painted worse...

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

New, Larger Market Garden Painting

I suspect that this will turn out a lot different than it is now.  It had better...

Market Garden, Spring Morning

I had originally intended to paint this on a larger 18x24" board but decided that I didn't have enough to say to use that much space, so this a 12x16" (30x40cm) piece. I like the way it turned out, so I may so the larger work after all...

Walled Garden and Crabapples in Bloom

Just painting -- the wall was added this afternoon it give the piece a little structure.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Crabapples in Bloom in the Park Across the Way

Very similar to the piece "Quiet Corner, Rainy Day" -- in part because I painted it with the same lack of an idea as to what I wanted to do.  In addition, since I'm right handed and paint at a desk, I tend to start in the upper left hand corner and work my way more or less towards the lower right hand corner so as to avoid dragging my cuff in wet paint as much as possible... Starting in the upper left I have a choice of trees (or something) or sky  and with trees I like dragging my brush to make the foliage rather than pushing it, so it makes sense to start with the trees on the left... It's all quite logical...

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

An Avenue in the Fog

I worked on this off an on today -- I knew what I wanted as far as the subject matter -- just could not quite get it to work the way I wanted. Oh well.

12x26" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Top of the Lane

Another improvised piece -- not quite sure about this one though -- a little to literal for me.


12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Quiet Corner, Rainy Day

It is rather hard to paint something if you don't know what to paint. And it is rather hard to know what to paint if you can't think about it for more than a minute or so before you're off on to something else.  Luckily I do like to put paint on the board and see how things turn out, and that is the way this piece was painted -- just by putting paint on the board and seeing where it was going and what I could make of it.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Blue Gate

Today's little effort.  This is a 8x12" piece of hardboard and is too tall for this type of painting -- take 2" off the height how you want.... (I just paint to the edges... don't blame me.)


8x12" 20x30cm acrylic on hardboard

Spring Morning, Moon Crescent

Well, this is today's version  of yesterday's painting.  I wanted to get more green in -- it is spring, after all -- and I used a bigger brush as well. 

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Spring Morning, Moon Crescent

This is neither different or better than what I've been doing for a while, but I've come to the conclusion that there is no revolution in store for me -- will just have to evolve things.  This is painted over the last two (Hornsport Rd) paintings. I'll probably stick to smaller works for a while to get up to speed again.

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard.