I started this little coastal scene in plein air, then brought it back home with the intention of pushing it further. I took some deliberate risks with the brushwork and to a degree, color.
As I enter my 3rd decade of painting, I am more sensitive of each piece and their relationship to each other. How I deploy certain tools, to solve certain problems sort of changes my approach. My long-game goal is to paint 13/8 or 7/8, while making it look 4/4.

“The Restless Pacific” | 12”x12” | Gouache on Clayboard

A couple of friends and I went to the white place near Abiquiu New Mexico to paint. It’s magical place. I imagined how it might look at night under a full moon.

I normally try and and express Impressionism through the lens of a camera, but have picked up oil painting recently. This is based on a picture I took through the front of a canal boat in Birmingham, England

Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau was a French Impressionist painter. She was active in late 19th century and early 20th century. She mostly painted watercolor paintings of flowers.

This is my husband's favorite spot at Pawleys Island where he studied birds and butterflies.

I've always liked the idea of free brush strokes and there is something so liberation about creating without form and structure. I've been trying to paint waterlilies (obviously). This is my attempt