Sunrises in NH can display the most amazing colors.  The peaches and sherbet-pink colors from the rising sun… they’re often astonishing. This is an 8″ x 10″ oil painting of the sunrise on February 3rd. For just a few minutes, the clouds seemed to come alive with color, like a

Yesterday during the late afternoon, a snow storm brushed us.  It didn’t leave much snow, but the clouds had looked ominous as they passed overhead. As the sky began to clear, revealing a very pale pink sunset, I grabbed an 8″ x 10″ canvas board and quickly captured the colors

As an artist, this is interesting.  I feel as if I’m finding my personal voice in terms of influences: Impressionism v. Tonalist & Luminist art. (Those links open in a new window and take you to Wikipedia.) For me, Impressionism includes apparently disconnected colors & textures (at least, up close)

Sometimes I look at an older painting and it’s lacking something.  Oh, it’s often “nice enough,” but… well, that’s not enough for me unless it was just a quick sketch. My March 2010 painting, Spring is on the way, was like that.  It just didn’t have the oomph that I

This is an example of what happens when I look at one of my earlier sketches and all I feel is, “Well, it’s okay…” I started with the oil sketch from January 8th, the Orange Hills at Sunset painting.  Frankly, I was going to put it into eBay at a