Tag: river

  • May river, palmetto tree

    May river, palmetto tree

    This small painting of the May River and marshes at high tide captured the scene and the moment pretty well without overdoing it. It was my first time using the great new Holbein gouache paints that I received got as a gift last Christmas. They are really wonderful to use compared to the cheap-o stuff…

  • Painting: River Through Mountains

    Painting: River Through Mountains

    I decided to relieve myself of the impulse to make another tonal, semi-representative work by forcing myself to work with a non-representative palette. I painted this over three sessions and I feel pretty good about it.

  • Chicago

    Chicago

  • Des Plaines river, after a storm

    Des Plaines river, after a storm

  • Iceland painting

    Iceland painting

    I’ve been wanting to experiment with painting landscapes for a long time now, and i finally bit the bullet and picked a photo from our anniversary trip to Iceland in 2010 to paint from and present to my lovely bride for an anniversary gift. Painting with gouache is really different than acrylic in a number…