The Sheds - Block-in

I have been working on the oil painting skills.   This is Ala Prima, which is just one go at it.  It was about two hours of work.  I will probably go back and fix the tree trunk on the left, but not bad for one hit of painting.  This is a 9 x 12 inches.

Still Life Flowers and jars

I have been trying to do larger oil paintings.  This is the second still Life I have started.  This is the block in of the basic colors and shapes.  This will need some tweaks now the basics are in.This is 11 x 14 inches, so larger than a lot of paintings I have done in the past.  I have a little more time now.  I will have a lot more time in August after retiring from the day job.

Side Glance Goat sketch

I have been working on some oil paintings, so I have not finished any of them.  I do work on these ink sketches to work the hand eye coordination.

Father's Day Plein Air

Happy Father's Day, I went to Mayo Beach, Mayo, Maryland.  This is a small Plein Air painting in oil from the beach.  he platform is an Osprey nest .

Rhino and Ox pecker Bird

Happy Friday, this is an ink sketch of a rhino and an Ox Pecker bird.  The bird eats bugs and other things off the rhino so they are tolerated for their service.

Nite before D-Day aniversary

75 years ago tonight, the 82nd Airborne, 101st Airborne, and the 6th Airborne all took off from airfields in England and jumped into Normandy, France.   They started the invasion from the west and with the invasion of the Russians from the East, sealed the Nazis fate as ending.  So not an original piece but I thought it fitting for the anniversary.

Nikki Tugboat

This is an oil painting I have been working on recently. This is a Tugboat working the grain barge in Virginia on the Tappahannock River.   This is 9 x 12 oil on canvas.