Illustration for Marriage Magazine

This one was for a story on marriage and how couples handle the first few years of marriage. What kind of positives and negatives they run into. Always great working with Susan Crocrete.

Mountain Farm

Here's a new one. 6"x6" Oil painting. For this one, I really tried to look at the shapes abstractly. The main thing was to get the values correct. A lot of fun to do. Look for more soon. Thanks!

Just an apple

I thought I would put this up. I think it came out pretty good. It was the first still life I have done in oils in years and really a lot of fun. Look for more fruits and veggies to show up here soon. 

Sunset Barn

Here's a new oil painting. Size 6"x6" This was done down in Scotland, Maryland. Below are some photos I took.

Winter Farm

Here's an oil painting I did of an old farm in the winter. 6"x6"

Abbott Henderson Thayer

Yesterday, I was at the National Gallery here in DC. They have a show of some of the recently acquired paintings from the Corcoran Collection. There was one there that blew me away. A painting by Abbott Henderson Thayer. This is one he painted of Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire. He did a bunch of paintings of this mountain. Up close it really is a beautiful piece. Very loose, great colors and lots of layering. Kinda reminded me of the artist Douglas Fryer or Michael Workman.

Maine_Lake_01_2013

Here's an oil painting I did up in Maine outside of the town of Camden. Beautiful spot. 5x7"

Barn_Fall

Here's another oil painting 6x6". I really tried to look at the light and how it changes the colors of objects. I squinted a lot and stepped back a lot. It really helps you see the values. Also for this one I drew a pretty tight sketch on the gesso board and that helped.

New Landscape

Here's a new landscape I did in oils. This was a tough one. So many colors. I'm really enjoying getting back into oil painting.