Early Spring

This painting was done on the property of my friends Nick and Biela Muhlen. It is a pond which Biela had Nick dig for her so she might have a frog pond. I used the palette knife to sculpt the tree forms and lay in small branches. It was a fairly cool day that started out sunny and very quickly became overcast and cold. Marina and I had to paint like the wind to get the major shapes and colours down and even then I had to finish the piece off in the studio as it turned to cold to stay out.

After the Snow

The heavy snowfall after Christmas is still on the trees, this painting was done looking north from my second story studio window. I am experimenting with taking pictures of the paintings in different locations in my house to get the closest reproduction of the colour in the digital image.