Still Life with Bowl, Onion and Shallots
This is an original 5x7 inch painting in gouache (opaque watercolor). The painting is not framed, but it ships in a white archival mat, ready to fit a standard 8x10 inch frame.
This is an original 5x7 inch painting in gouache (opaque watercolor). The painting is not framed, but it ships in a white archival mat, ready to fit a standard 8x10 inch frame.
To beautiful red apples wound up on my still life stand.
Original painting in gouache (opaque watercolor), unframed, matted to fit standard 8x10 frame.
This beautiful dawn redwood is in an arboretum a few blocks from my house. I’ve been fascinated with it since I moved here thirty years ago. I’ve painted it before in different seasons, but I think it looks particularly striking in the fall.
Late fall, late afternoon, along a creek in southeastern Pennsylvania. I just loved the way the late afternoon light cut across the woods and through the trees. I started this on location and finished in the studio.
These beautiful azaleas line the edge of a former mill race in Taylor Arboretum in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This beautiful old tree sits by a creek in southeastern Pennsylvania, watching the water and the years flow by. The painting was started on location and brought to a finish in the studio.
This old tree has been hanging on while the meandering creek has gradually undermined its roots. The reflections and fall leaves drew me to the scene.
This old cabin sits alongside a creek on the property of a historic mill.
A little flash back to summer days, as a historic railroad bridges crosses a sunlit river.
This interestingly shaped tree is in an arboretum not far from where I live. There was just enough snow covering to bring out the contrast between the white surface and the colors and texture of the tree limbs and bushes.
Interestingly different individual trees grow along the river in Battery Park in New Castle, Delaware — near the historic colonial era section of the town. This was started on location as a demo for a plein air painting workshop I was teaching, and I liked it so much I continued to develop it in the studio.
This is an original painting in gouache (opaque watercolor), roughly 5 x 7” (13 x 18 cm), not framed.
Delighted to have this painting, “Creek at the Willows”, accepted into the Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s 118th International Exhibition of Works on Paper.
The show will be at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA from October 14 to November 20, 2018. Artists’ reception Sunday, October 21st, 3:00 - 5:00 pm.
Saying goodbye to Winter. This beautiful old tree is near the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington. I started this in the winter and finished up in the studio in the spring.
This painting was painted as part of the Plein Air Brandywine Valley event. It sold tonight at the opening. This is the Brandywine River at the point called “Big Bend”, painted from the bank at the Weymouth Estate.
This Yellowwood tree is one of the oldest trees in America’s oldest botanical garden, Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia. It was damaged in a storm in 2010, but survived and is still growing.
This little stone house is a remnant of a historic mill complex that once existed along Ridley Creek in southeastern PA. It’s now occupied, even though it sits in the middle of a state park. I was there just as the late afternoon sun was cutting through the trees.
Shade and dappled sun through fall leaves on a hillside in Pennsylvania.
These rocks in a park near my house have always look like they tumbled into the creek at some point long ago — long long ago.
This old stone bridge over a small creek once provided access to an estate; it’s now part of a park not far from where I live in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
This wonderful old tree has been precariously leaning over the bank of the creek for years. I hope it hangs in there for many years to come.
The Brandywine River passes through Wilmington, Delaware in a beautiful park called Josephine Gardens. The river widens here, and is strewn with rocks; old trees line the banks.
I didn’t have to go far for this one; I just set up my pochade box in the front yard and painted the neighbor’s fence and hosta in morning light. Summer winding down. Gouache on Stillman & Birn Zeta Series paper.
This beautiful small creek passes through several parks here in southeastern Pennsylvania. Gouache on Arches 140 lb watercolor paper.
I didn’t have to go far for this one; I set up my pochade box at the end of my driveway, where these peonies sit in the shade of grape vines that wind through the fence.
Gouache on Stillman & Birn Zeta series paper.
What was at one time a mill race is now an azalea-liined trail through an arboretum near where I live in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Gouache on Arches 140 lb watercolor paper.
Flowering trees overhang a small reflecting pool in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
Gouache on Arches 140 lb watercolor paper.
These beautiful magnolias are a variety that come out earlier then others, and earlier than most other flowering trees in the area. They always put on an early spring show.
Gouache on Arches 140 lb watercolor paper.
This beautiful dawn redwood looks striking at any time of year. It’s in an arboretum near where I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. The Dawn Redwood, or Metasequoia, is native to China. It’s been planted here in a relatively sheltered area of the arboretum. This one is perhaps 3 ft in diameter toward the base, and maybe 80 ft high.
Two 19th century railroad bridges cross the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
Trees along the banks of Little Darby Creek as it winds through the park at The Willows in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This painting is oil on Arches Oil Paper. It can be matted and framed under glass like a watercolor, or a framer can mount it to a panel and frame it like a regular oil painting.
On a foggy and quiet day, the snow is melting on a hill above Ridley Creek at Taylor Arboretum in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Beck Street is a small side street in Philadelphia’s Queen Village section. It’s a quiet, dead-end street in a fairly old part of the city’s east side.The brick sidewalks are showing their age.