Southwest Vista

One of the most challenging landscapes for me is the Southwest.  I love looking at the landscape, the colors the terrain but it is difficult to capture that with such a limited palette.
 Everything about it is like the flip side of the Northeast.  It seems to barren so devoid of lushness and color.  When you really look at it though it has it's own rugged, start beauty and the colors of the desert can be just as intense as the color of a forest.
This 5x7 shows the plain brownness of the desert with the complex colors of the hills in the distance.
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Southwest Vista



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Daisy, Daisy

I think of all of the paintings I have done of flowers this is one of my favorites.  This 5x7 oil was painted from a photo that a fellow artist took for a challenge we did.  The challenge was to take turns picking a photo and each do our interpretation of that photo.  It is always fun to see how different each person sees something and the creation that comes from that vision.
At first I tried to be realistic in my painting but it just didn't seem right.  I wanted to be looser and freer, just like the flower was.
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Daisy


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Dark Ocean

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I never get tired of painting ocean scenes.  No matter how many I do, they are all different.  I painted this 5x7 oil from a photo I took off the coast of Gloucester, MA.  The day was clouding up, the temperature was dropping.  The ocean turned such a deep blue, it was beautiful.

Dark Ocean




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