Paint Webster

 

 

 

Deer Creek

 

 

plein air oil 6x8

  nfs

 

I'm honored that my painting of Deer Creek won the

Mayor's Choice Award

at the Paint Webster Plein Air Event this year.

The weather was a challenge for all with rain most of the day.  I was fortunate to get the water and the reflections painted before a steady drizzle changed it's surface. 

The railroad bridge over Deer Creek is still in use.  As you can see the date on the bridge of 1912 gives it a lot of old fashioned charm.





May 2nd

Cliff Cave Park

This park has such a great variety of subject matter to paint and every season creates more beautiful things to see.  I went there on Saturday and was lucky to see a large number of barges on the river.  I was fortunate that they stayed long enough for me to get this 6x8 painting.

Barges on the Mississippi

plein air oil

sold 





April

Can't get enough of Plein Air

 

all 5x7's sold 

 

 Daffodil Hill at Shaw Nature Reserve
 

 Queeny Park Rocks

 

Valley View Glade



March Plein Air

More opportunities to get out to paint in March. 

Kirkwood Park

gifted

Forsythia's at Bee Tree Park

sold



A Warm Winter Day

I haven't been able to post for awhile due to computer issues.  Hoping to catch up now.
This painting was done on February 8, 2015. 

Clifton Terrace

A small 5x7 plein air oil

 sold

Enjoyed a nice warm day painting with the MOPAPA group along the Great River Road in Illinois.





Winter Landscape

 

 

Castlewood State Park

 

 

10x8 oil

 

 

This is a studio painting from a photo taken by Shawn Cornell in preparation for his winter workshop this weekend.  We were hoping for snow but the winter landscape without snow is just as challenging.



December at Riverlands

 

 

The Audubon Center

 

 

 

 

 

5x7 plein air oil

sold 

 

Painted several small studies with the MOPAPA group.  Skies were changing throughout the morning.  This study captured the changing clouds.

November Rain

 

 

Cliff Cave Park

 

 

 

 

5x7 plein air oil

 

 

 

Cloudy, rainy and chilly was the weather this morning as the MOPAPA group huddled under the shelter at Cliff Cave County Park.  The misty tones of the distant trees and the muted shades of russet grasses were the elements that caught my eye. 

 

 

 



Cliff Cave Park

 

 

 

Before the Snow

 

 

 

6x8 plein air oil

 

 

 

Painted this morning before the snow started.  It was rather bleak lighting but these trees still held some color along with the grasses.  It was cold but I was grateful that it wasn't windy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Fall Colors

 

County Parks

 

 

A couple of small (6x8) plein air oils that I did a couple weeks ago in the area parks.  The bright orange and gold leaves didn't last very long.  One of the trees actually lost half of it's leaves during the time that I painted the picture. 

 

 

 

 Clydesdale Park

 sold

 

Queeny Park

 sold