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Study in Light/Classical-22"x30" Watercolor
Capturing the fleeting shadows cast by the evening sun, this painting becomes a memento mori. Using hot press paper, I was able to capture the reflections of the table and subtlety of the lace.
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Beside Old Pangburn Highway-22"x30" Watercolor
Large boulders were moved aside to clear the roadway for what is now called the Old Pangburn Highway, dating from the early 1800's. Not much of it remains. Using opaque watercolor for the leaves, enabled me to render fall leaves with the crispness of reality, while retaining the spontaneous quality of wet-on-wet watercolor for the boulder and distant colors.
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Firenze Street Lamp - 22"x30" Watercolor
The original photograph was taken from a moving vehicle in Florence, Italy. I was drawn by the cast shadow of the lamp, but opted to retain the ambiguous elements around the perimeter. Without them, it just didn't work. Besides, the crispness of the rendering needed some ambiguity to make it interesting. The painting was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
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Low Tide: Boothbay Maine Watercolor - 22" x 30 "
The watercolor painting of these two small boats, floating over the reflection of a tall pier, were inspired by a photograph I took while we were celebrating our forty-fifth wedding anniversary exploring the coast of Maine. This painting was accepted into the 2016 Mid-Southern Watercolor Society Annual Show.
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Dogwood- 30"x40" Oil
The dogwood blossoms make a great subject for painting or photography. I typically use a more impressionistic approach with oils and a tighter, more realistic approach with watercolor.
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Little Red Bayou-34"x55" Oil
An old cyprus tree in a bayou of the Little Red River, served well for a study in composition based on the Golden Section. Can you find the Golden Rectangles that define this composition?
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Little Red River at Bee Rock-40"x60" Oil
A view of the Little Red River just outside of Searcy, AR. The bluffs on the right, Bee Rock, are a favorite destination for hikers.
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Double Vision-22"x30" Watercolor
I was intrigued by the composition afforded by this typical Italian window, with geraniums, in Pisa, Italy. The panting was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
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Paint & Rust-22"x30" Watercolor
Paint peeling off the side of a metal tank is an interesting study in contrast between tight, controlled watercolor and wet-on-wet spontaneity. In my more philosophic moments I like to call it "Continental Drift", a reference to the passage of time...and the visual similarity of the painting to oceans and continents.
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The Missing Tomato-22"x30" Watercolor
Can you find the missing tomato? The subject was a bin of tomatoes at a vegetable stand in Scandicci, Italy. Each tomato took less than two minutes to paint. However, the stems were very time consuming. The painting was accepted into the 2013 Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
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Eagle View Watercolor
This "eagle's view" watercolor painting is from a hilltop that is locally knowns as "eagle view" due to the name of a popular catering service and event venue by that name, with a deck that overlooks this panorama.
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Highway 65 Panorama-15"x29" Watercolor
This painting of a scene along highway 65, north of Conway, Arkansas was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show in 2012.
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Landscape in Langshan Mountains-22"x30" Watercolor
During my "one month in China", teaching Watercolor at Hunan University of Humanities, Science, and Technology, I was taken to these exotic mountains for two days of hiking and photography. This Watercolor painting, on hot press Arches paper, was inspired by the outing. The painting was accepted into the 2014 Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show and the first Annual National Art Education juried show.
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Lauterbrunnen Valley - 22"x30" Watercolor
One of the more panoramically beautiful places I've visited would be Lauterbrunnen Valley, in the Alps above Wengen, Switzerland.
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