Hibiscus To The Point

If you like this painting you will love my workshop at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Maryland May 12 and 19 called  Painting Outside The Lines  with a Focus on Design. You can sign up by going to www.marylandhall.org

This is a tricky painting. Notice the change from positive painting to negative painting in the blue triangles. If you let you attention slip you'll lose your place.   I love this type of painting because it is almost like solving a puzzle.

Vermont October

This one of my favorite fall scenes. As  I   created the wet in wet underpainting, I scraped out some birch trees with a palette knife. It is a small painting but a real gem. The reflection of the orange tree in the water leads the eye into the trees. It all happened in a spontaneous way.   I tell my students to let the water and paint do their own thing and step aside. This is hard to do. Life is a little bit like this. Sometimes letting go and realizing everything will fall into place and take its own course is the best way to live.

Painting Outside The Lines

This painting is titled "Lily In The Pink."  It is a good example of  techniques that I love and teach. The interior pink shape holds two white lilies that are painted directly.  When the lilies cross the border of the pink square (called breaking borders)  their colors change and they join the background shapes which are painting negatively.  The combination of positively and negatively painted shapes makes for an interesting and unusual composition.