Upper Shore Road At Dusk

I wanted this painting to say "summer". Don't think I quite made it.

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard 

Over the Hill

Just a quick study playing around with the flat dark trees behind the hill.

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Quiet Water

This morning's piece, improvised on an idea that came to me while staring at the blank board.

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Sandy Road, Around Sunset

The moon and sunset sky in the oak tree behind my house was the inspiration for this painting -- the tree on the right is the oak tree, more or less. The rest of the scene is just made up.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Near Twilight, Above Weymouth

These days I paint just to try this or that out. In this case, I painted a fairly large painting with a much smaller brush that I normally use and I was working on painting the sky in some sort of interesting way. I don't think the brush size made much of a difference one way or the other and it is a hard painting to photograph and adjust to make the sky look like it is, but you get the general idea.

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The Denboro Road

Today's piece's claim to fame is that I used a much smaller brush than usual for me to paint. (8mm vs 12mm for yesterdays or 26mm for many of my more recent work)  I intended to paint something rather different, but I was having so much fun painting the sky that I had to change my plans and paint a scene that included a lot of sky.

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Trees and Pond Study

I thought I'd do something a little different today. (There are about 745,003 different paintings like this, so different in the sense that I haven't been doing them...)This study is based on a scene along the bike trail I frequent these days. It is not the actual scene, I just have included the features of the scene. I'm not wildly crazy about how it came out: I think to do things like this justice, I would have to include a lot more detail than I care to bother with.

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Misty Morning, Lansworth (rev)

Played around with yesterday's work, added my usual delivery van/milk truck and a couple of people -- no doubt the housewife ordering an extra pint of cream...

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Misty Morning, Lansworth

I was bored today, Independence Day is not celebrated locally, so I painted.  This ain't much of a painting, and may well not last, but it's the Day's Work.

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It Also Rains in Pangone

As I mentioned in the last posting, I was not too happy with the painting, so I painted this one over it. A little simpler in composition and I think a bit better.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard