Road Towards Water

Don't you love it when you are driving along the coast and you come around a bend and there, instead of trees or houses or more road, is a sudden view of blue water stretching all the way to the horizon?

Maple Tree and Mountains

Just dashes of red and yellow still lingering from our Vermont autumn--and the snow we are expecting later today will tip the color balance further towards the blues and violets of winter.

Model with Pink Scarf

Another pose from the same life session as yesterday's post, reading again but sans black socks.

Clouds and Fields, PEI

The view behind my cottage here on the island on a Sunday morning: bright red fields, dark hedgerows, quickly moving clouds, and a distant farm.

Fields and Inlet, PEI

The water here in coastal Canada can look almost tropical on a sunny October morning.

Blue Boat, PEI

Driving around at the end of a grey day looking for something to paint while I still had some light, I found this cobalt boat and cerulean dumpster parked at a quiet little harbor in Annandale.

Cliffs and Inlet

Standing on the dunes behind our cottage, looking across the the inlet to the bright cliffs and fields so characteristic of Prince Edward Island.

From the Barn

My student Sue painting from Kate's barn on a rainy afternoon.

Sheep and Trough

The view from Comstock House in Plainfield on a day of constantly changing weather.

Near Cabot

Today is the start of my autumn landscape painting workshop--hopefully the fickle fall weather will cooperate for plenty of plein air sessions, but if not, my studio is ready for a week of painting with my hard-working students.

Orchard and Cloud

An August afternoon that holds a prescience of changing weather and season.

Tomorrow I'll be posting details of my upcoming online sale of artwork to benefit Vermont flood victims.

Dam and Bridge, Plainfield

The village beneath my hill, and the river that runs through it, on a day of quiet water. When I can venture farther south in Vermont again with my french easel, I hope to find familiar scenes like this amid all of the damage brought by the storm.

Cloud Shadows from Middle Road

Hard to believe, on a beautiful afternoon like this one, that just two days ago Hurricane Irene turned Vermont's hills into brooks, brooks into rivers, and rivers into raging floods.

Many thanks to all who wrote to check in--we're fine up here on our hill, but homes, stores, bridges and roads from the top to the bottom of the state have been damaged or lost. Fortunately, Vermonters are good at pulling together and rebuilding. And thank you again for your concern!

Alley in Monniex

A late morning look down a narrow alleyway in this quiet village perched high on a rocky hillside.

Cemetery, Goult

This cemetery is an exhilarating combination of Euclid and Alice in Wonderland, and I could have spent two months rather than just two hours painting here.

Road Beneath Lacoste

As soon as I returned home from Provence (that is, after weeding the too-big vegetable garden) I got back to work on my still life commission. I still have a few paintings from our trip to share, including this evening view of a narrow road winding between vineyard and orchard beneath the picturesque hill village of Lacoste.

Advancing Storm, Murs

This painting started as one thing, and ended as another, just like the weather that day.

Lavender Fields and Farm House

It's the height of lavender season here, and purple fields are a vibrant (and sometimes subtle) part of the Provencal landscape's summer patchwork.

Path to the Ruins

Walking up from the village of St. Saturnin les Apt towards the walls of a long-vanished chateau.

Overgrown Orchard, Late Afternoon

Long shadows across an abandoned cherry orchard and the rutted road winding from Les Bassacs.