Finally! here is a new painting.

"Low Water, High Pilings", 14 x 21", watercolour, Feb 2009, $625

and a reworked one...

Winter Woods, 20 x 30", watercolour, Jan-Feb 2009, $925

Wharf in Blue

Wharf in Blue, 7 x 10", watercolour Jan 2009 Private Collection

Blue Jay

Blue Jay study, 7 x10", watercolour, Jan 2009, $98

These fellows have been visiting my feeder this winter. They come in groups of 8 or 10. The most I have seen together was a flock of at least 50 in a tree not far from here.

Reworked Pink Tiger Lily

Pink Tiger, 7 x 10", watercolour, 2006, $98

This is one that I did more than 2 years ago and have cropped significantly, bringing the focus more on the play of light across the petals.

A Road in the Woods

This is a larger view of the woods road that I sketched in the last days of 2008. I am still working on it. The lefthand foreground needs to be developed further, as do the lefthand trees. I quite like the area of misty dead conifers in the upper left corner, but fear that my attatchment with this part of the painting is making it hard for me to see that it detracts from the image as a whole. My plan is to add more trees over the area that I am so fond of and leave just hints of it peaking through. Just enough so that I know that it is there.

I started with the intention to do this as a long horizontal format, but also wanted to give myself some flexibility. I have done a full sheet painting as you see above. It is 22 x 30". If I am not pleased with the trees I put in the upper left I shall go back to my original idea which is the crop below.

If I am pleased enough with the full painting I shall not crop it at all.

Please leave your comments.

Snow Haze, 7 x 10", watercolour, January 2009, $160

This is the last of the imaginary scenes of the snow that I shall do for a while, I think, but I am more pleased with this one than with yesterday's.

Snow Glow

Snow Glow, 7 x 10", watercolour, January 2009, $160

Another made-up painting. This was inspired by the sky as I was out and about on a recent very cold day. Because I had some critique of the field rows in my last painting I thought that I would work on making better ones in this painting.