Morning in Dering Crescent

A rather blah painting, but it was Thursday and I only had one painting done this week. My quota is two. So I was determined to meet my quota before deadline. It will make for a more mellow Friday.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Lansworth After a Shower (revised)

The sky was pretty boring, especially after it dried, so I tried to give it a little more life and drama with this revision.


18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Lansworth After a Shower

I mentioned in a recent writeup in my gallery at deviantART that I have trouble doing houses in this abstracted style. They're too regular shaped. In this picture I avoided the problem entirely by hiding all the houses behind the trees in their front yards... either that or people live in trees in Lansworth.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

The Great House Fence

Worked on this piece yesterday and today. Originally it was a flat scene with a regular house on the left half of the painting, but I neither liked the house and I wanted a bit more depth in the painting so I all but eliminated the house and curved the road into the painting.  This style of painting is not very good for representing buildings.  They're too regular to fit the more slap-dash style of the trees.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Dreary Day in Lansworth

It's a dreary day here too, but at least the snow is a hour north of us today so I'll not complain, I'll just mention it. 

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Morning in the Mews 4

Today's installment of this little series. Likely the last as well.

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Morning in the Mews 3

I had nothing to do this afternoon, so I did another version of the same, this one a mash-up of the previous two. Just being lazy, mostly, but hopefully I've learned something by doing it over and over again.  

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Morning in the Mews 2

A more monochromatic version of yesterday's scene. Fairly boring, but being a small painting 6x8" 15x20cm, I'm not going to worry about that too much.

Spring Morning in the Mews

I'm thinking this local might be my next series, but this first attempt casts some doubts as to how suitable it actually is. If it wasn't just a little 6x8" 15x20cm piece I'd probably paint over this one, but oh, well, maybe by tomorrow I'll figure out what I need to do...

Misty Morning in Crofthaven Close

I set out this morning with the intention of doing one more Light Rain in Lansworth painting, only this time on a larger, 40x60cm scale. This is what I ended up with: certainly not Lansworth, thus it has it's own title. Yesterday I'd seen a photo of Whistler's Nocturne: Blue And Silver  and I had that painting in mind when I was working on this one to the  extent that I did not care to make anything too defined or too dark and followed something of his color scheme.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Light Rain in Lansworth 6

Another variation on the theme. I'm having fun doing these little paintings, but maybe I should move on to a new theme.  Well, I've got the day to think about what next.

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard 

Light Rain in Lansworth 5

Today's piece is a bit more gloomy this time around. Not exactly grey skies, but close.

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Light Rain in Lansworth 4

Yet another rainy day in Lansworth. Seeing that I don't like painting blue skies, it may be raining for a while yet. I did make another try on painting a grey rainy day, but it looked to cold and unpleasant, and there's too much unpleasantness around to add to it...

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Light Rain in Lansworth 3

A little different colors this time... maybe a break in the clouds, but it's still raining.

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Light Rain in Lansworth 2

This morning's piece. I started out intending to paint a grey rainy day, but chickened out. I know you can paint beautiful pictures in greys, but mine always seem to look so gloomy - but then I usually don't finish them. Tomorrow I'll try to finish one...

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Light Rain in Lansworth

Here's today's 6x8" (15x20cm) painting. It is nice to be able to sit down with no idea and mind and just play with paint -- and at a size that does not challenge my attention span...

A Street in Blues

Here's another little painting I did this afternoon. I had to work to make sure I didn't put in too many details...

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Bright Morning in Pangone

I've been meaning to get back to painting some small paintings like this one. Some of my favorite pieces are small, though is not exactly one of them. Still, I have another 11 boards cut this size, so we'll see what I can do once I get back into the swing...

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Country Lane in Spring (rev.)

Here's what's painted over yesterday's Country Lane in Spring. It is an almost virtual redo of An Upland Road on a Frosty Morning, posted below, so I don't think I'll keep it like this, but I'm just playing around right now...

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Country Lane in Spring

This is just an improvised piece that I'm far from sure I will like tomorrow. I do want to do a misty morning scene, but I'm not sure this is it.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard