wet sidewalk - 12" square

I simply could not get rid of the slight glare on this one - dark colors are so hard and it is still really windy here so the painting kept blowing over. I worked at the gallery today and noticed a definite uptick in the number of people out & about...........a sign of spring? Oh, please, let it be.

winter thaw - 12" square

Still working on this - I am not so averse to posting progress reports recently since I just don't like painting much smaller than this and larger pictures generally take longer. Anyway, I love the reflections of the melting snow on the sidewalk and it is pretty similar to the reflections on wet sand that I love so much - water on mineral so I guess it isn't surprising!

snow at the dock - 11x14"

I thought I would add the mostly completed "Unrelated" to this post............it goes to the drying wall. "Snow at the dock" depicts the dock at the foot of State St. in Bristol. We certainly have had enough snow this year....... it is pretty hard to get the feeling of the motion of the flakes in the air but I think I sort of got it.

just to get it done!

I am not too into this one and finished it more to see if I could make it work at the end....not a great reason to finish a painting but it is small enough so I didn't feel it was too huge of an investment. We all have these days, I suppose. Time to begin another.

sunset ice - 12" square

Sorry about the glare but we had snow ALL day again! It was only supposed to be "snow showers," implying spaces between bursts of snow but it didn't let up.........I began to drive to a Bristol Independent Galleries meeting but turned around when the unplowed road changed my mind. I have been experimenting with different types of under paintings...........loving the purity of watercolors and the way the white paper really makes things glow, I have discovered Gamblin's transparent colors. I did my usual sienna on most of the canvas but used pure transparent orange for the sky..........I think it worked well.