This 24x36 oils was inspired from a trip to Acadia. The sun was just setting and it's warm light was hitting just small portions of the breaking waves.
I had the sun in the painting for a few months then decided to take it out as it was a distraction from the focal point, which I felt was the breaking wave in the foreground.
The painting is oil on linen canvas.

Here's an example where a watercolor went wrong in areas. I use Casein to fix up areas that really went wrong. Sometimes the entire painting or almost the entire painting is done over with casein and/or tempera. In this case only Casein was used

This is the second painting of the inside of John's Garage.
John and Barbara Schwarz were brother and sister. Neither ever married and they lived and worked the farm until they were forced to move because of their failing health. Both are gone now and while they were living I was always welcome to paint anywhere on "their place" as they called it. One day I walked into John's Garage, really a work place and was taken back by all the yellow tabacco cans. He rolled his own cigarettes. They were Top Tobacco Cans. This is a painting of his workbench.

I came upon these two young lovers in Parque Juarez in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Apparently I startled them as they quickly broke their intimate embrace. I told them I was an artist and asked them to redo the pose. As you can see the young man was somewhat willing so I took what I could get. I did a quick drawing while they agreed to pose and then went home and did this oil painting. Aside from the figures the painting was done with a palette knife.

Another Cedar Key painting. Beautiful day and a perfect spot to paint from.
The painting was done on a 16x20 Arches cold press watercolor block.

This watercolor was done from the bridge that one has to cross in order to get on Cedar Key, Florida. It's really old time Florida in every way especially the architecture.

Watercolor, Gouache, Casein on 300 lb.watercolor paper. The sky is pure watercolor but the sea is a combination of all three.
I choose 300 lb. rough paper in order to dry brush the reflected lights on the darker water.

24x30 oil on masonite

The men and horses were photographed on a ranch. I had the costumes and all the correct gear. The back round was from Brice Canyon in Utah.
It's an oil on canvas. 24x36.
The fellow with the red capote had all kinds of fronteer wear and I posed him many times. The figure on the right was a former rodeo bull rider who owned a horse farm in upstate N.Y.

30x36 oil on masonite.
The blues are not that blue in the original. No one will ever convince me that digital is as good as slide film. The computer in the camera sees a color and sometimes really goes after it. But you get the idea anyway.

Rocks and Sea off Cape Elizabeth, Maine

16x20 oil on masonite

Crescent Beach, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

The two playing with the yellow bucket are my grand children, Aidan and Lucas