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

Circular Landscape

While playing with different shapes of canvas, I decided to do a circular landscape. I ended up with this bright but haunting one of a field with the wood line in the distance.

Title: Circular Landscape

Medium: Watercolor on paper

Size: 10" Diameter

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.