A Study in Greys

A painting only the painter could love, luckily, since I only paint to please myself, all is good. I spent the better part of two days of painting working on various versions of this scene, and then last night when I scrapped off the previous work, I liked the scrapped off version best of all, and quickly repainted it along the lines of the scrapped off image. Alternate title is Park Lagoon with Rowboats on a Rainy Autumn Night.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Picnic Point After Sunset

This morning's work based vaguely on memories of Picnic Point from my now distant college years.

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October Study Three

Similar to my first October Study, this is, however a smaller piece and I worked on it a lot longer over several days. Sometimes that's how it works.

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The Avenue on an Autumn Afternoon

This morning's painting. Lots of old elements in it, but it is just an excuse to paint.

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October Study Two

I've been painting and scrapping off paint from this particular board for several days. This morning, looking at the shapes of paint that remained, I decided to just run with the scraped off remains of the trees on the board and see what I could come up with, and this is it.  The previous attempts where of an entirely different scene.

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Autumn on the Cape

Back to a summer theme one more time...

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Autumn Rain

I wanted something moody and urban. For a while I tried to do it in greys like actual rainy days (around here), but that didn't work for me -- just too cold and ugly, so I'm back to using creamy colors instead.

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Twilit Yard

I don't know about this one...

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Bike Trail in Fall

This is the morning's piece. I ride my bike along an abandoned RR route turned bike trail each day and this work is loosely based on a section of the trail as it approaches a road. I painted this even more loosely than usual.  I expect that this will be the standard for a while.

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October Study

I've been painting on this board all week. Painting and scrapping paint off. I like painting, so I don't mind too much if things don't turn out quite right, and well, I'm in a 'been there, done that' mood, so the sort of OK attempts did not make the cut. I've settled on this piece: quite abstracted, and painted with vertical brush strokes for it's colors and mood.

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Autumn Afternoon

An improvised piece, again with the row of trees motif.

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Along the Forest Road Revised

Sometimes I let things that sort of bug me slide, but this time, the differences between the types of branches between the right (far) and left (nearer) trees bugged  me enough to redo things a bit  last night to make them all the same type of trees.

Along the Forest Road

Well, I've been working on this one for the last several days -- hard to stay in and miss the last of the nice weather, perfect biking weather, you know. Anyways, this is the sum of the week's work so far, and it's another line of trees painting. I should have photographed yesterday's version just to illustrate the minor variations that have taken up a week's work... or anyways several hours of work...

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Park Row, Early Autumn Morning

Still exploring the shape of a line of trees.  You might notice this in several of my more recent paintings.  I started this board on Monday, but abandoned it until today. Starting over, I had the idea of light shining from right to left illuminating a wall on the left, and proceeded from there. I wasn't planning to retain the trees from the previous effort, but decide I could use them after all. I probably have a painted half a dozen paintings of Park Row -- an alternative to Pangone or one of the street or square scenes.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard