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Rocky Edge

This new painting, Rocky Edge is 16 x 12" on canvas panel. I used a limited palette of browns and cool blues, creating my own local color.

Completed: Through the Shadows

This is the completed canvas:
Through the Shadows, 24 x 24, oil on deep stretched canvas. Forest Park is my favorite urban park in St. Louis.

Forest Park Painting

This is my new Forest Park painting in progress (24x24 on deep stretched canvas). Needs some work to integrate the foreground with the background.

A New Underpainting

I sketched this drawing in charcoal on a new canvas and after fixing the sketch so it wouldn't run, I added a warm underpainting. This is a Forest Park in St. Louis.

Mountain Trail

Mountain Trail (12x10, oil on panel) is a scene near Telluride, CO from a summer trip I took a few years ago. I usually don't paint aspen in summer green but I really liked this shot.

Path to Sunlight (my favorite park in Colorado)

Path to Sunlight (14x11, oil on panel) is a scene from a favorite city park of mine: Washington Park in Denver, CO. It's a shot of trees, a path along the canal that winds through the park and a small lake in the background. I finished this in mid-December. It was cold and wintery in Missouri and I wanted to time travel back to a warm fall day and a favorite walk in Wash Park.

Final for Julie's Path

This the final shot of my new painting "Julie's Path" (20x16, oil on canvas). I painted this from a photo I shot at Julie Weigand's home where I took a workshop given by her in October. It was one of those last really warm days, although it started out quite cold. I remember how cold my feet were early in the morning after walking through the damp grass before Julie set up for a demo.
For this painting, I opened up the trees along the ridge because I wanted to show the sky coming through the trees.

Third stage of new work

This is a shot of my new painting; the shot is not great - its from my phone so the color is off but I've made good progeress and its close to finished. I'll shoot the last one with my Canon DSL.

Second stage of new work

This is stage two of my new piece. I have worked all over the painting, keeping in a warm mode.

New work in progress: underpainting

This is an underpainting for a new oil painting on canvas. I wanted to make it very warm so that that feeling would carry through to the final piece.

BTW Happy New Year everyone!