LANDSCAPE 2017-2021

Landscape painting season begins at the end of March when the sun is high enough to banish the chill from rocks that serve as seats. It continues until the reverse weighs in, around mid-November.

Island #1, 2018. Watercolor on Arches, 10-1/4” x 7”.

Island Rocks and Trees, 2019. Watercolor on Arches, 12” x 9.12”.

Island #2, 2018. Watercolor on Arches, 10-1/4” x 7”.

Island #3, 2018. Watercolor on Arches, 10-1/4” x 7”.

Left: Summer studio. Right: Bridge, 2019; watercolor on Arches, 9” x 6”.

Untitled, Riverhenge, 2019. Watercolor on Arches, 12” x 9.12”..

Yard, 2018. Oil on cradeled panel, 8” x 8”.

Roquemengarde, 2017. Watercolor on Arches, 9” x 8”.

My community garden on Roosevelt Island has a bamboo grove that contributed stock for these hand-carved pens inspired by drawings made by Vincent Van Gogh in the late 1880s. I used the same kind of paper that Vincent used, 100% rag, with laid finish.

Blue Pines, 2019. Watercolor on Strathmore 500 laid paper, 15-1/8” x 15-1/2”.

Island Pine, 2019. Pencil on Strathmore 500 laid paper, 12-1/8” x 12”.

Left: Sketchbook study, 2019.
Right: Island Pines, 2019; pencil on Strathmore 500 laid paper, 14” x 11-3/4”.

Island Pines, 2019. Sumi ink on Kraft paper, 14” x 14”.

Transcription, 2019, from Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh; 14” x 22”, drawn from observation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.