Twilight, Hayfield Canal

A moody (or murky) improvised piece.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Sunset at Hayfield Pool (revised)

Your sins catch up with you. In my case; using wet pavement like water, which is a habit of mine. Now when I wanted to paint water, it looked like wet pavement, so I had to darken it up a bit. I think the darker water actually makes a more powerful composition, though I'm not terribly happy with the water as it stands now.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Sunset at Hayfield Pool

This is my third attempt of the afternoon, and I'm pretty happy with it. I can spend all afternoon painting and get nowhere and then after scraping off the paint I can see something in what remains to give me the idea for the real painting. In this case, there remained a dark line from a building's edge that I decided to make into the two tall fir trees and the rest of the painting just followed along.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Along the Hayfield Canal

Last night's revisions to Winter Along a Canal with a revised title as well. I needed to make the willow tree more willow like, and revised several lines, the canal and the sky as well.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Along a Canal

A fantasy. Looking for more color in winter, I just plain out cheated. Even this is not quite as loose as I wanted to paint. We'll have to see what tomorrow brings.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter in the Back Courts

The main goal of this piece was to inject a little more color into my winter scenes. I also used a very small brush, illustrating why I don't normally use one: my attention to detail and ability to paint realistically (as in lack of) is not in any way enhanced by using smaller brushes.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter in Pangone 4

Painted this on a scrap piece, thus the rather awkward shape. Two inches should probably be lopped off the top to get an 8x10" shape, but that's more work than I care to put into it now. Otherwise, I was just looking to get a little more color into a winter scene than I've been putting in.

12x8" 30x20cm acrylic on board

Winter Fields, minor revisions

A few minor revisions to make the trees on the left a little more taller and elegant.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Fields

Just a board that I've been playing with the last several days. There was a painting from last fall that I decided didn't meet my minimum standards, so I painted this scene over it. Nothing much, but I had nothing in mind. Nothing in nothing out.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter in Pangone 3

It's snowing and blowing around here today, so it might as well be snowing in Pangone as well. Pushing the blurry look a bit more. It actually takes more time as the paint has to dry a bit before brushing more paint over it, but seeing that my attention span isn't what it used to be, working for a bit and then taking time off to let things dry, works for me.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter in Pangone 2

I painted this piece as a favor to future art historians. I painted a piece a while back called Winter in Pangone 1, which sort of implies that it's part of a series. Well I didn't want any art historian to go off on a wild goose chase looking for the "lost" works of the Winter in Pangone series, so I figured, I'd better paint at least one more to create an actual series.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Sunset

Didn't use no fussy details on this sketch. Had to repaint it half a dozen times before I got to this point, however.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

The Pines at Wychford Abbey

This is more or less the sketch I had in mind yesterday before taking on the bigger board. On of the many things I can't paint is looking down a hill, which I would have liked to have done in this piece. The problem with the downhill viewpoint comes from the iffiness of my imagining it and the feeling that it would require a more delicate handling of details than I have at my beck and call.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

The Sidegate at Wychford Abbey

I'm reading Compton MacKenzzie's Plasher's Mead and between the book's descriptions and google's street views of the Oxfordshire countryside and villages, I dashed off this imaginary scene this afternoon. I had originally intended to do a small painting of pines and snow, but since I was working on a larger scene at the time that was more of the same old stuff, I just painted over that instead for this large study.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard