I am happy (and humbled) to announce that my pastel "Wind Chill" was awarded 1st Place at the AAWA Summer Juried Exhibition at the...

It seems that with a few days of temperatures in the low 70's, that foliage bursts furiously in Southeast Michigan. This pond and field...

Spring has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan. Touring a local nature preserve with my dog Cosmo, I came across this scene, replete...

Inspired by a cold late November afternoon on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, "Wind Chill" is a 21x27 inch pastel painting on Uart sanded...

Working in the studio each day, I come across adjustments to work-in-progress paintings that I like to share with my pastel enthusiast...

Rolling Hills County Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan maintains 3 miles of groomed cross-country skiing trails. I've enjoyed skiing and...

Creating distance in a landscape is often achieved by muting the color as you near the horizon. You can also create a misty look to...

I thought I would spice up my underpainting techniques to do paint this landscape of a field at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor....

Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the...

I have joyfully harvested my first collection of garlic!. After placing one clove each in about thirty raised-bed cavities in my...

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...

New pastel painting: pond in Lillie Park, near Ann Arbor, MI. Soft pastel on Uart sanded paper. 10x13. See Marsh Madness and other...

This painting was started as our field demo in "The Landscape in Pastel" class at the Michigan Art Center. I darkened the ground above...

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

A wintry scene on a sunny morning in the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road, Pittsfield Township, Michigan. #Uart #pastels #snow

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...