In my most recent blog post, I described the start of a month-long series of sky studies. My intent was to do one pastel study per day with a goal of completing 24 over a period of one month. At that writing I was about halfway to my goal. (If you missed the preceding post and want to read it first, you may do so here, just don’t forget to come back and finish reading!) Mission accomplished! I have completed 24 miniature studies of skies that I have photographed over many ye
I read an article recently about the importance of stories. It made me wonder if it was important to share the stories of my paintings with my viewers. So, for this week's blog I am sharing the story of my Deep Blue series of paintings. The series was spawned by a trip to the Abacos in the Bahamas. It was a vacation I had eagerly anticipated – my first time to anything Bahamas - and the week flew by. The entire trip, I was awestruck by the colors, especially of the water. As
Palm Trees. I never tire of them. There are so many different varieties. Tall & thin. Short and stocky. With coconuts. Without coconuts. I especially love to stand directly underneath and photograph up into the canopy. Although I just returned from a trip to Florida, it was not my intention to write about palm trees. But this week proved to be all about the trees that I find so intriguing. I have previously painted a series of pastel paintings, two of which were coconut