In The Woods

This is the first painting of my day in East Texas.  I forgot to mention yesterday that I spent one hour on that painting.  I spent two hours on this one.  I think that the rule, faster is better, worked out here.  However, this was a confusing view and I spent some time keeping my branches sorted out.  I'm considering making larger paintints of one if not all of these views.

Where Bambi Comes to Drink Water

This is the second painting I did in East Texas.  The water was brackish (sorry Bambi) and the most lovely brown color I've ever seen.  But I added the blue so it would be understood to be water in the painting. 

By a Quiet Pond

Last Thursday I went out to Lake Bob Sandlin  with Suzanne Clarke to do some plein air painting.  This lake is in East Texas about a 100 miles from Dallas.  We went into a wooded area where I painted two views.  I'm going to show the last of three paintings that I did in the course of four hours.  The interesting thing is that the old rule of painting fast is best held true pretty much this day.  I spent 30 minutes on this painting.  The colors turned out very vivid because I was sitting in the shade and looking at a scene in the sun.  When I make corrections on this painting, I'll make the grass in the foreground more green and adjust my darks and lights.  Over all it was a great day.

Water over a Log

This is a small watercolor I did yesterday. I love the colors of the water and the way objects under the water appear.   Today I decided to see if it would look good in a larger format.  So I started working on a large piece of paper, 38" x 50".  We'll see.

Triangular Composition

This is a quick oil study that I did in preparation for abstracting it further.  I liked the muted colors and decided that it didn't need to be more abstract.

Floating

This is a watercolor study I did in preparation for a large oil painting that I started yesterday.  

The Peas Aren't Ready

Saturday I went to visit my Mom to wish her a happy Mother's Day and went to see my sister's garden.  She had sweet peas growing and so I picked a few.  Unfortunately, as you can see, they haven't reached maturity.  But they are lovely nonetheless.