landscape sketch painting

Craig and I went to Paramount ranch this morning for a couple of hours.  I had never tried pastels before and we had been talking about chan...

This is a view of the Spice Market and a nearby Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.  The weather was cold and rainy, so I painted indoors from my la...

Where else but in Southern California can you go painting outdoors in January and have the weather be 85 degrees and sunny? Craig and I and...

I thought this old cabin had great character with it's metal roof, red color and funky windows. Done in watercolor in my ring bound 6x9...

Everything looked so wonderful covered in snow. These cabin roofs were the view from where we were sliding on the cookie sheet.

Next to our cabin there was a nice field with some slope. We were so eager, we went out with cookie sheets and the lid to a popcorn tin and...

The weather got too rainy to sketch outside, so I did this one in my room from a picture I took in Siena, Italy. I brought it up on my lap ...

I sketched this church tower from across a small plaza while seated on steps in a doorway. 5x7 done with ink and water color in a sketch no...

I go to Sansepolcro alot and this is the 9th time or so this year. I never really get tired of the place, it is small and not many tourists...

I had a chance to spend an extra day in York, a wonderful walled town in northern England. The York Minster is the largest gothic cathedral...

I painted the church without doing a rough while sitting on a bench in the park. I ran out of time when Kathey, Christy and the kids came b...

I did these thumbnails of a fruit packing barn in Slide Rock State Park near Sedona. I didn't have time to do the larger painting, but ...

These are three of the sketches I did on my latest trip to Tuscany. I've been inspired to try a few line sketches combined with water c...

I spent Saturday morning with my son Craig and my brother Dean on a plein aire painting outing. We were originally going to go to Vasquez ...

The Top water color sketch was done from the terrace at Casa Buitoni and shows the view of Sansepolcro through the Italian Cypress trees. O...

These are two sketches I did on my most recent business trip to Italy. The market scene was done in Florence in my sketch notebook and the ...

These sketches were done last Sunday while I was in Chexbres, Switzerland. This is a small town on the hill above the north shore of Lake G...

I also sketched these views while sitting in the gardens below Casa Buitoni in Sansepolcro. I was there for business, but it was really rel...

These paintings were done in about 1.5 hour each while sitting in the garden below Casa Buitoni in Sansepolcro, Italy. It was about 65 degr...

Sketched this using sepia water soluble pens. Used a brush and water to get the ink to flow and create the wash tone. It was cold outside ...