Sunday Sketchbook: Paris

Two weeks ago, a glass of mint tea in a sunny Paris cafe--and today a flooded basement and long to-do cleanup list in beautiful but soggy Vermont...

Sunday Sketchbook: Figures

Some figure drawings are about anatomy, and some are about the figure as one shape among many--that's the kind that I like...

Sunny Day at Kate's

During my workshop, I stressed seeing colors other than green in the Vermont summer landscape--a challenge for us all!

Memorial Day Sketchbook

Here's one in memory of my father Sammie Abbott: artist, World War 2 veteran (and "pre-mature anti-fascist"), builder of stone walls, organizer pamphleteer extraordinaire, and ceaseless scourge of city planners. Back in the 1970's I drew this of my dad lecturing three unfortunate Highway Department bureaucrats on why the North Central Freeway (ten lanes of traffic that was to run from the Maryland suburbs through the heart of the nation's capital and under the Lincoln Memorial) should not be built. It wasn't--one of the few urban freeways defeated during the destructive era of "urban renewal". To peace-loving fighters everywhere, thank you.

Memory: Sunset over Luberons

Evening in Provence, a view back to calm pleasure.

Two Sailboats, Cloudy Day

Cloudy and chilly too, with a welcome fire in the kitchen woodstove after I finished painting.

Storm over Luberon Valley

Looking out this afternoon from the studio window at Les Bassac as a thunderstorm moved over the mountains--just like rain clouds roll over the Worcester Range towards my studio at home in Vermont.