Summer Hay Field

Hay bales pop-up all over the Hudson Valley in mid-summer.
This is a field just outside the town of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York.

Snow In The Valley

Fall is in the air and I want to paint snow! I love the way light plays off of snow in the bright sun. I have painted this farm before. The previous painting had horses in it and it was later in the day. This scene shows the best that Ulster County has to offer - open spaces and the Catskill Mountains not too far away.

Big Display

This is a small painting (8" X 10") but, it is about a big display! The subject is simple because I was working mostly, to get the cloud to glow in the sky above the darkening horizon. 
Making an object seem to be emitting light is a challenge well worth the effort. There are no living beings in this scene, making the cloud seem to come alive.

Mid-Summer Haying in New Paltz

One evening this summer I drove past this farm in New Paltz and watched them haying a field. It was overcast and the tractors were kicking up a lot of dust. I liked the way the fading light was caught by the grasses on the mound of earth in the foreground.

Winter Stream - My new painting

I really like painting winter scenes. I am particularly drawn to snow and ice melting on a small pond or stream. This is a local brook I saw one morning at the end of last winter. It looks like a pond because some beavers made a dam down stream that has backed up the water.

Landscapes on View at The Art Society of Kingston

Tim and I are in a show at ASK this month titled That Great Canvas: The Sky. Our four paintings surround the large landscape by another artist. Tim's work is the one on the bottom left.

New Painting - Midnight Snow

I struggled with this one. I wanted to paint the effects on snow of a moon
I saw when I was traveling back from Kingston one late night.