Wednesday, December 24, 2014

NEW CHRISTMAS DESIGN


Added some greens to something I found at the antique store, a quick sketch. With the help of a little photoshop magic, VIOLA… I have a new christmas design.

Monday, December 15, 2014

CLOUDSCAPE

Cloud is just a region of space that's cooler than the regions around it, so that water vapor entering it condenses from the cold, then evaporates again as it drifts back out.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

WINTER WONDERLAND

Another snowy day outside the studio…it's beginning to look alot like christmas….

Friday, November 7, 2014

SUNRISE

The upside to our shorter days is to watch the sun rise over the horizon at 7am, rather than 5am!

Monday, October 27, 2014

PASTORAL LANDSCAPE

The lyric quality of my lovely hills…nothing beats direct observation of the landscape.

Friday, October 24, 2014

FLAMING SUNSET

A main reason I'm living in the Catskill Mountain is because of the Hudson River School. Around every bend, it's another picture perfect landscape, just as an artist could wish. This sketch came about from a visit to an artist's studio. The beautiful effects of the dark shapes against a flaming sunset is a constant theme for the Hudson River School.

Monday, October 6, 2014

LATE RASBERRY SEASON

Aside from spending time at the local apple orchard over the weekend, there was plenty of rasberry for picking. They are small, but the simple shape offer me a chance to use just a few colors for this oil sketch. 

Friday, September 12, 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

HAPPY LABOR DAY

while I was painting this red barn, cows in nearby field loudly declare themselves, along with the noise from farm tractors…not so quiet in the country.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Friday, August 22, 2014

PRODUCTIVE MORNING

Staying focus is not my strong point. But with the help of technology, it can certainly speed up the whole process. Pretty cool to paint in my garden in the morning, scan the painting with a little PS edit, I have a new design! I upload it to Zazzle… I just created a new greeting card for my BIRTHDAY COLLECTION, all in a day's work.


Friday, August 8, 2014

KITTY WATERCOLOR

The pure joy of a quick watercolor. Balancing the looseness of the watercolor with a few fine lines of the brush.

Friday, July 25, 2014

ORCHID & GREEN

Kind of like this oil sketch of apple blossom from Spring. I layer on a yellow butterfly from my archive…the yellow layer on green layer turn this into a purple butterfly, by clicking on  the "difference" layer on photoshop. Since orchid is the color of the year, I'm saving this as a new design.

Friday, July 18, 2014

APPLE BLOSSOM SKETCH

Apple blossom oil turpentine sketch from Spring, finally getting to do a little editing on photoshop… it might or might not be a new design.


Friday, July 11, 2014

ORCHID BUTTERFLIES

This new butterfly design is created on photoshop, with just 2 layers.


 
I layer this butterfly design onto this green meadow sketch. By clicking on "difference", it gives me this wonderful orchid color.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

EASTER LAMB

From a pastel sketch on my deck last week, I'm turning this into a new Easter design.

My new Easter Card

Thursday, June 12, 2014

PASTEL LANDSCAPE

Another fine day on the deck. The view & the spring air compels me to bring out my pastel. I kind of like this green pastel sketch. I think I can use this for a new design…come back & see my progress.

something in the foreground...

en plein air

Monday, June 9, 2014

ASPARAGUS SEASON

It's alot of time & work, but I get so much inspiration from my garden. From garden to table…I get to use my asparagus for floral arrangements, still life sketch & lunch, of course.



asparagus & egg fried rice

Monday, June 2, 2014

FOR DAD

This is the initial sketch for my recent design for Father's Day. Getting away from painting flowers & focusing more on fishing & sports for a male audience...

Friday, May 30, 2014

HAND LETTER

When a card design sells, I usually try to work up another version. To turn this into a valentine card, I added some hand lettering into the heart. I have to rewrite the fonts many times, to find the right combo. From a thank you greeting, I have a Valentine greeting.


Thursday, May 22, 2014

MORNING LIGHT

The rapidly changing morning light and atmospheric effects from my deck. The light easily changes the mood of my vista.

5:45 AM

Friday, May 16, 2014

SPRING DESIGN

No two project ever starts the same way.
 What started out as just an oil painting of clouds from my deck on Monday is turning into a new design…photoshop is allowing me to layer the apple blossom painted in watercolor, onto this oil painting.