Ramshackle

Well, it has been a while since my last post! I've been busy with a number of things...had lots of spring yard work to catch up on (was way behind due to my illness in early May), been organizing a workshop with Kenn Backhaus (next week), working on a studio painting that has been giving me fits. As a result, I don't have many completed works to show right now, but there are a number of smaller, mostly plein air paintings that need a little tweaking. Things should calm down after mid July, so I hope to be getting to those eventually.

This 8x10 plein air oil painting was done earlier in the spring, on one of the first really warm, sunny days (I even picked up a little sunburn). A collection of run-down old buildings nestled in the trees. I wound up painting them much "nicer" than they appeared in real life, not sure why! Just the way the painting evolved. I don't know how well it comes across on your monitor, but in person this one has a very nice warm color harmony and is one of my better recent paintings. The door shadow, and the mysterious dark passageways (door and partially hidden windows) were the main factors that caught my eye.