On the bay (again) at Breezy Point. Time to go to the Atlantic side next for more scenes of the Breezy Point community! Click here for...

Here's the latest pastel painting in my Breezy Point series. Looking forward to heading out to the beach in August! #BreezyPoint

Working on my Breezy Point series early this morning. Here is the reference photo, which depicts the Breezy Point lighthouse on the bay...

A couple of years ago my daughter Sara hiked the region of the Great Tetons and returned with a bounty of grand photos, which I have used...

The Pastel Society of America emails keep bugging me about submitting paintings for their annual juried exhibition in New York City. So...

I recently re-arranged my pastel palette, which revealed an abundance of blues. So I thought I would take advantage of such a variety...

My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt...

Wrapping up my Italy cityscapes before heading out to do some plein air painting of the soon-to-be-summer landscape, here is "Via S....

At Breezy Point, a beach community on the Atlantic Ocean in Queens, New York, early morning and late day brings out the most brilliant...

On a hike through a nearby nature preserve last Tuesday, I followed a woodland trail and came across newly-sprouted gatherings of "Great...

"Pointillism" is a painting technique using dots of color to create images. You have likely seen such neo-impressionist paintings of...

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...

Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the...

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

Touring Lucca, Italy, a quaint, medieval walled town in Tuscany, I came across a variety of narrow streets with restaurants, 400-year old...

If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It...

Working on detail of a woodland scene, I decided to encourage my habit of populating many different colors in one value (aka light or...

An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't...

Monet said it all: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think, here is a little square of...

Back to the street scene in Lucca, Italy, addressed in a recent blog post. The subject at hand is how to paint a brick wall in pastel. ...