Travels and Winter

Here are a few of my most recent plein air (outdoor) paintings.  The first three in the series are from Southern California.  My wife and I, along with our little boy, escaped the bitterly cold midwest winter for a week of vacation in January.  It was a real treat to paint outdoors in the middle of winter with 80 degree weather, sun blazing, sea breeze on the face, ocean birds chirping away, the pacific stretching out to the horizon; it was nice, maybe too nice.

As remarkably pleasant as it was painting atop the sea bluffs, I do appreciate the dramatic change in landscape that occurs here in the midwest, season to season, year after year.  This winter's lingering layer of snow has, ever so slightly, allowed me to gain a greater understanding of the different components (composition, color, and value) of painting.

I have also been working on creating a new website.  It will serve as an online shop as well as a blog to keep those interested up to date on my recent paintings and pursuits in art.  I will keep you posted.

California Dreamin 8×10

Southbound, HWY 101 8×10

January Morning 8×10

Sleeping Giant 8×10

February Thaw 8×12

Thanks for viewing!