Yankee Road 5

Wishing for a warmer, sunny day, here is recently completed Yankee Road 5, 8" x 10", oil on canvas panel. Another view from Yankee Road north of Linn Road in Liberty Township.

Evening– Reserves Park 6

Evening– Reserves Park 6

16 x 20, oil on canvas, 10/2011

Painted at home, at painting group and at the Performance Lexus Celebrates the Arts event. The latest in the Reserves Park Series, the photo here doesn't do it justice at all. Once uploaded, the image has gone flat, with all the midtones brighter than the original. Oh well, guess you'll have to see it in person the next time I display my work!

Above Mt. Adams

I finally got back out with the Southwest Ohio Plein Air group again yesterday afternoon and evening. You couldn't have asked for more beautiful weather. We were painting in Mt. Adams in Cincinnati and I was looking at all the elevation it afforded. The fall color is just starting to come in the trees. I hope it will hang around long enough to allow some painting time. We had such a dry spell this summer, I don't know if it will...

This is a 9" x 12" oil on canvas panel of The Church of the Immaculata. One of the prominent landmarks of Mt. Adams.

Across From Paxton's

This little 8 x 10 painting has been hanging in Paxton's Restaurant in Loveland since the wet paint sale at the end of the Loveland Paintout in June. It didn't sell, so it's been on display with other paintings that suffered the same fate. I just picked it up from there this week and finally got a photo I could post.

The One That Started It All

Looking through my inventory records and comparing them to my postings, I found that I've never shown this painting here. It's Beckett Ponds 1, a 24" x 36" oil on canvas painted in August of 2008. I guess I really can't say I haven't shown it, the header for this blog is a cropped portion of the painting.

I hope to have some new work to put up soon. I have the Hyde Park Art Show on Sunday and a painting demo event on Thursday at a local Lexus dealer. If the painting from there works out, it will be the next up.

Plein Air Loveland

It's been a hectic month so far in September, with Featured Artist at the Pendleton, Mason Arts festival and starting a part-time job. The hours for my job are landing on my regular paint group days, so that knocks out the work I usually get done there...

I went out with Barb Pask (http://wwwlovetopaint.blogspot.com/) to Lovland and we painted between the raindrops two weeks ago. This is a little cottage along the bike path that was built on the railroad right-away through the town. Appropriately enough, it's on Railroad Avenue.

Findlay Market

This is a 9 x 12 plein air painting I started while out with the SWOPA group in early August and didn't quite finish. I hoped to get back down to Findlay Market to complete it, but my schedule didn't allow. I completed it last week at Mason Area Painters.

The last remaining of the nine public market buildings in Cincinnati, this facility was originally built in 1852 and remodeled over the years. You can find more information about Findlay Market and Cincinnati's other market buildings at: http://www.findlaymarket.org/market-history/