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Recent Work: Preparing for a Show

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When I'm getting ready for a smaller show I don't often go to town and buy boxes full of new frames; I prefer to go through my inventory of paintings and cull the weaker ones, replacing them with new work. ...

Some New Seascape Paintings

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This blog post features some recent seascapes. I did all of these at the end of June 2018 after selling all the seascapes I had on display at my last art fair....

Recent Work: April 2018 part 2

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My push to get ready for the Edmonds Art Fair continues. I'm focusing on smaller works so that I'll have more inventory at an affordable price point. As much as I like to paint on a large scale, big paintings are hard to sell....

Painting Animals in the Landscape

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Throughout my painting career I've painted both animal and landscapes. Yet, combining the two has always been difficult. Over the summer I spent some time on a series of paintings with animals in them. In this blog post I talk about what I learned and my experiences in painting these pieces....

A Landscape Painting Based on Analogous Colors

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This painting features one of my favorite locations in Loudoun County. It it one of the few places in the Loudoun Valley where the landscape is flat and you have an unobstructed view across several fields all the way to the foot of the Blue Ridge....

Finding a Creative Solution for a Difficult Painting Problem

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Low Tide. 10 x 17.5, oil on linen panel. 2017. One of the biggest problems I've found with paintings of the shore is that it can be difficult to make them look interesting. There is a tendency (except in very specific light conditions) for everything to look flat. This headland in Magnolia is o...