Route 15 West, VT

Route 15 West, VT
Early Morning
Oil on Panel
10" x 12"

I did this painting on Sunday morning at about 7 AM, I did not get to finish it.
It was off of route 15 towards Jeffersonville, Vermont.
It was a gray overcast morning and about hour into painting it started to rain.
I kept on working for a bit as it was a light rain, but it started to pick up.
Just as I finished putting my gear away it started to pour.
Lucky me as it turned out to be a pretty big storm.

Cambridge,VT

I re-worked this a little, I changed the hills in the distance and the trail.
Cambridge,VT
Early Morning
Oil on Panel,2008
10" x 12"




Cambridge,VT
Early Morning
Oil on Panel,2008
10" x 12"

Painted this on Friday morning with Karen and Jack Winslow.
They took me to this spot near their house in Cambridge, VT.
It was a good morning for painting.
Karen and Jack are fine painters who deserve a wider audience.
Jack does these large landscapes that are just amazing.
He goes back to spots over and over again. Something I want to start doing.
They also are two of the nicest people you can hope to meet.
Check out Karen's blog:
brushwork.blogspot.com

I am still working on this, I will post an updated photo.
What I did was to float a gray/violet haze over the background to pull it back.
This was mixture of violet and gray at about value 6 and I worked with this moving up and down according to how I wanted the effect to look.

Tree studies

Tree studies
Oil on panel, 2008
10" x 12"

I did this study in about a hour and a half.
The sun was going down so I ran out of light.

Early Morning, Fall/Vermont

Fall in Vermont
Oil on Linen
14" x 20"

I worked on this some more, I was not happy with the area in the middle of the painting as it was pulling to much towards yellow and was creating this problem and pulling forward instead of back into the hills.
It was also in the middle of the painting and seemed to make this yellow hole in the middle of the composition. What was I thinking! Sometimes one has to be ruthless.

I feel this is more unified as a composition. I could keep working on the painting but feel good about it for now.



Fall in Vermont (older version)
Oil on Linen
14" x 20"

I did this from a outdoor study.
It went through a lot changes as the original study had
fog an low clouds in it.

Sometimes one just has to invent, compose as they say.