Sunday Sketchbook: Bahamas

My studio here in the frozen north is full of just started and almost finished canvases, so my apologies for sparse postings--but this Tuesday I'll be on a plane and ferry heading to my workshop in the Bahamas, so I'll have a painting a day to share for the next week (and from a warm place...)

Sunday Sketchbook: Canada

Prince Edward Island is a perfect place to practice drawing pine trees, shingled houses with pointed roofs, and plates of mussels.

Sunday Sketchbook: Vermont

A quick compositional study for an upcoming plein air painting, one panel in a new landscape "grid".

Sunday Sketchbook: Vermont

Drawing a study, even for a quick two hour plein air painting, helps me see how the landscape's shapes, values and colors lock into a compositional whole.