Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a great start to 2012! My Christmas was great and New Years was also wonderful, I'm eager to begin a new year with lots of painting and new ideas.

Above is a piece I have been working on intermittently of the Pennsylvania woods in the fall. It is an oil on canvas and I hope to have it done fairly soon.

Landscape in Progress

A corner of my studio.

By the River

Title: By the River - a plein air painting

Size: 12"x16"

Medium: Oil on canvas

Green Cabbage in Oil

Just completed my latest cabbage painting, my first in oil. This one really turned out to be striking, it turns my head every time I walk by it and let me tell you after staring at it for weeks, that is a feat.

I think this painting also expresses how excited I am about gardening this year, I can't wait to see if my (real) cabbages will be half as lush. Lets hope so!

Title: Green Cabbage in Oil

Size: 28"x32"

Medium: oil on canvas

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Almost

Just a few more details left to do! I'm so excited to share the final result with all of you.

Still Growing

An update on the cabbage painting, its really coming along. I'm pretty happy with it at the moment. When I walk into the studio I get a shock from the lush greens. Oils really have a pleasant thickness to them, they almost produce a tactile experience.

Although, like I said before, I miss the stain glass look of the watercolors as I paint the leaves. I still really enjoy working with oil and its a completely different medium. Perhaps this is a good example of why I can't choose between the two.

Oils

I'm starting to work with oils again, after a break of a few years mostly due to space and time restrictions. This is a section of a large painting that I'm working on right now. In some ways oils are really satisfying to work with, don't get me wrong I love watercolors but they are not as rich in texture. Perhaps I will do some still-lifes with them. Not sure what other artists feel about painting in oil vs. watercolor, but for me its more relaxing to paint in oil because of the mediums slower pace (very slow drying time) and I feel like my mistakes are easily covered over. Well back to painting! Hope I can share the finished piece with you soon.