Moon Shine

I love this painting! The old school stuff. The way the moonlight dances around the painting from the old Monte Carlo to the stop sign to the flowers in the bushes in the house across the street. Moon Shine also is a reference to the mystery of the night and the lights on in occupied buildings while the vacant ones rest in the light of the moon.

A Commissioned Painting

This is a sketch for a commissioned painting. As part of the process I usually do a preparatory sketch, this time in gouache & pastel, of the family engaging in their favorite sport. It's always fun watching people's reactions to the sketch. This man is giving it to his wife for her birthday and the smile on his face said it all. He said, "...and this is just the sketch?". That was cool. And so was painting this because it allowed me time to work in different media than what I am used to. Keeps me sharp. I think.

Glimmer

One of my new paintings for my upcoming show at The Greenville County Museum of Art. This is an old factory and while I saw it only in the day, I turned it into a night painting with moonlight raking the scene. I titled it Glimmer because in the mountains in the background you can see all the lights from the houses flickering. The vehicle and the light on in the doorway I added as an element of surprise.

Edgewater Sunrise

I have been working on this painting for a while using glazes to achieve the final effect. The American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler once said that a painting should be like "a breath on glass", the final effect seeming effortless and without evidence of a human touch although the actual painting may have taken years to finish. More on that in later posts.

Carolyn & I spent a week at a friend's house out on Wadmalaw Island this summer. Good food, fishing, boating, & friends. This was really one of the singular most beautiful sights I saw the whole week, the simple house in the moonlight with the oak trees and the wind rustling the Spanish Moss.

Rain on the Waterway

Storms were moving across the marsh in front of my house the other day. The light, as you can see, was wild.

Watercolor Monday

This is what I do when I don't take a day off. I was struck by the contrast of the birds in the upper left corner against the deep blue of the cloud and the yellow sky. The title is Blue Cloud.