Here's the latest version of "Ski Tracks." The composition is established to invite the viewer to follow the tracks toward the horizon....

Here's the latest version of "Ski Tracks." The composition is established to invite the viewer to follow the tracks toward the horizon....

See the color in the photo below; this photo was digitally enhanced as best as I could using Microsoft Office. In fact, without...

One of the joys of painting landscapes in pastels is the ability to quickly add dashes and spots of different color to express density...

The latest version of my plein air painting at the Pittsfield Preserve. I guess it is 50% "plein air" as I am completing the pastel in...

I enjoy the oranges, reds and greens of medieval Italy! Here is the current version or Ravello. Working those greens, blues, purples,...

This is a scene from the town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Ravello towers above the Mediterranean, an arduous uphill hike from...

In the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road near Saline, MI. An early morning in June, the soybeans were starting to emerge with vigor as...

This morning I had the privilege to meet Ed Kennedy, PSA. Ed resides in the same town as I do, in Saline, MI., so we got together to...

Strolling through Furstenberg Park in Northeast Ann Arbor, I came across an open field housing scattered birch trees. I was inspired: I...

Before I publish my work-in-progress dissertation condemning the use of the "color" black, I thought I would share progress on "Daybreak...

While working on "Birch Ballet," (see earlier posts), I realized that I wanted the distant tree line and grasses that butted up against...

My winter scene as noted in my recent blog "Many Shades of Grey" has earned itself a warm and contrary color watercolor underpainting. I...

I decided that the underpainting will be a warm orange. This will contrast nicely with the blues of the snow I plan to pay down shortly!...

Often when viewing a landscape painting in progress, we feel that there is "something wrong" but don't quite know what that something is!...

Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.

Working more blocks of value and color in the autumn tree painting, which i started at the Michigan Art Center landscape painting class....

The reference photo for the birch tree painting in progress has a tangled mess of grasses, weeds, small trees and shrubs that appear to...

At any time in my studio, there can be several paintings in progress. I allow these paintings to "mellow" and take on further refinements...

I think we are done with this one! Now it doesn't hurt to let it "ripen" by leaving it accessible in the studio for some whim of a quick...