Sunset over the Luberons, Provence

Thinking of seasons and the landscape: my first visit to Les Bassacs was on an autumn day, and this vista was hidden behind a curtain of fog. What a wonderful surprise to see it revealed when I returned to paint there the next summer.

Sunday Sketchbook: The Caribbean

On Tuesday I'll be leaving for my second trip to the Caribbean (the first was to Bequia, pictured here) this time to teach and paint for a week on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. I'm looking forward to starting a new series of Travelogue studies--check your mailbox for daily posts, if you're a subscriber!

Sunday Sketchbook: Puerto Rico

I wrote at the bottom of this page: "I wasn't planning on being here now, but instead of a nice evening exploring St. Vincent on the way to Bequia, the four of us are crammed into a crummy motel room next to the San Juan airport." No matter where an airline strands you, if you have a sketchbook you can always stay (almost) sane.

Sunday Sketchbook: Bequia

Right now from the window of my Marshfield, Vermont studio it looks like I'm in the middle of a snow globe blizzard. So here's a memory from a few winters back of a sunny sailboat deck in the middle of the blue Caribbean.

Summer Camp

There's a tradition in land-locked but water-loving Vermont to move for the summer into a simple family camp on a pond (just about all lakes up here, other than enormous Lake Champlain, are called "ponds" with typical New England modesty.)

Memory: Spring Fields, Umbria

Looking over the parapet in Perugia at the delicate tapestry of May fields, just before a rainstorm blew through.