Summer 100 (25 of 100)
"Old Toyota"

10 x 12

I liked the shadows and the tin roof. I am again working with slightly different palette. As you can see I'm one quarter of the way through 100 and one-third of the summer is over. Eight behind, but hope to catch up some this week. We'll see.

Summer 100 (24 of 100)
"The Tide"

11 x 14

Trying to do something kind of different. From a photo from Jacksonville. The sun was setting across the river and I thought of trying to make that mud look pretty, or at least interesting. There is alot of painting above the land and I also had to make that lay down. Not easy, but a good challenge.

Summer 100 (23 of 100)
"Mountain Study"

8 x 10

From the same group of photos as above. Fun to paint.

Summer 100 (22 of 100)
"N.C. Summer"

8 x 6

I was waiting in the car in line at Camp Crestridge in Black Mountain, N.C. What else to do but take a photo of these Rhodademrum (sp?). The girls are at camp. Had a great weekend visit with Micah while taking them to camp. Also saw some great galleries in Asheville.

Summer 100 (21 of 100)
"319 Barn/ Spring"

6 x 6

From a photo taken while driving to Atlanta. This a barn north of Thomasville. Actually battled and battled with this one. Started with an 11 x 14. Painted it twice and wiped both off. Then switched to this gessoed masonite. This is more simplified than what I was attempting in the ones that got wiped. It's hard when there are so many neat things. I really liked these just-out leaves that were catching the light against the dark shadow of the barn. Not easy to get. I think I learned something here. At least I know how not to do it.

Summer 100 (20 of 100)
"Red on Right Returning"

11 x 14

This is a channel marker coming into the St. Marks River. Bright day and alot of current in the water.

Summer 100 (19 of 100)
"St. Johns Starting"

6 x 6

View of the St. Johns River at State Road 46 near Lake Harney. This is Florida. Flat.

Summer 100 (18 of 100)
"Reflection"


48 x 48

This is that other big piece. From a photo I took on the fishing trip. I wanted that light to dominate the painting and I think it worked. Not sure that I might not change the structure of the trees just a little bit.

Summer 100 (17 of 100)
"Bright Water"

8 x 8

From St. Augustine. Using a different palette again.

Summer 100 (16 of 100)
"At the Dock"

6 x 8

This is a sketch using a different palette for me. Just doing something different. This is paynes grey, windsor red, yellow ochre, cad. yellow light and ti. white. Trying something different which is part of the plan for this summer.

Summer 100 (15 of 100)
Big Sky - Florida

48 x 48

Okay this is big. This ain't no little 6 x 8. So here's the problem: in this Summer 100 thing, this one counts just as much as a 6 x 8. Maybe I should change the title. One hundred 6 x 8 paintings would be 4800 square inches of paintings. I could call it the Summer 4800, and this one painting would be 2304 square inches. Oh, quit complaining. The thing is I got three of these 48 x 48 canvases recently and I have done two of them and they came out pretty good. This one is from a photo from St. Marks. I like these lonely looking clumps of trees. They look like survivors. Just going to have to keep working. ( I do have these really little sample canvases. Maybe I can use those to counterbalence these big ones.) You don't care do you?

Summer 100 (14 of 100)
"Wedding Thingie"

6 x 8

Its one of those wedding thingie things. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

Summer 100 (13 of 100)
"Bradley's Pond"

6 x 8 (Plein Air)

This is looking across Bradley Pond on Centerville Road.

Summer 100 (12 of 100)
"Wedding Party"

10 x 8 (plein air)

Painted this on Saturday morning at a park in Tallahassee. It was set up for a wedding but no one was around. After I started people started showing up with flowers and other stuff. Puts some pressure on you to finish, and I did.

Summer 100 (11 of 100)
"Park Fountain"

8 x 6 (Plein Air)

What's not to like about a park fountain.

Summer 100 (10 of 100)
"Boathouse Series 1"

8 x 10

I like these boathouses. They aren't as easy right now because the water is so low.

Summer 100(9 of 100)
"Metal Roof"

6 x 8 (Plein Air)

From the lake looking east from Dina and Dave's. The photos not great. Just trying to make that metal roof look like a metal roof.

Summer 100 (8 of 100)
"Early Summer Lake Weir"


6 x 8 (Plein Air)

Another from a great weekend at Lake Weir. This is the same as reading a great summer book to me.

Summer 100 (7 of 100)
"Ma B's Boathouse"

6 x 8 (Plein Air)

From a weekend at Dina and Dave's. More skyski. Fun, fun, fun.

Summer 100 (6 0f 100)
"Piedmont Goose"

8 x 10 (plein air)

WHY: A sketch from trip to Atlanta. My wife was shopping and I went to Piedmont Park. This is the second painting. The first was okay but ended up being a wipeoff. I may wish I hadn't done that when this summer 100 thing gets tough. A group of Canadian Geese came struting down the sidewalk. This is result of about 10 seconds of this goose standing still. That allowed me to do the head and neck and then I had to put the rest together by waiting for other geese to get to the same poise.

Summer 100 (5 of 100)
"River Heights"

8 x 10

Looking across River Road in Cocoa. Just a sketch.

Summer 100 (4 of 100)
"Looking West"

5 x 7

This is a small 5 x 7 on masonite. Doing a lot of stuff lately from some trips to St. Marks. Posting a couple a day until I catch up.

Summer 100 (3 of 100)
"Path to the Water"

8 x 10

Why: This is at St. Marks, just down from the lighthouse. I like the bright water through the trees.

Summer 100 (2 of 100)
"From the Flats"

11 x 14

WHY: From the same fishing trip. Simplified painting.

Summer 100 (1 of 100)
"The Light"

6 x 8

Decided that I'm going to give myself a goal of doing 100 paintings this summer. So this is starting back on June 1 and will go through August. I know, you're saying its already June 12. Well I just got behind on posting and I'll have to catch up. I'm pretty close to one a day so far. This is from a photo I took on a fishing trip on a beautiful spring day. It's better in real life. The photo doesn't capture the contrast between the water and the reflections of light on the water.