Website Updates, Upgrades

For the past few days I have not been painting but rather working on my website; adding recent work, trying to make the layout better, and trying to make it more commercial by enabling folks to purchase paintings online. Not quite finished yet- not that a website is EVER finished!

Problem painting

Oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches (41 x 30.5 cm)

The proportions of this figure were wrong, so I made some adjustments in the studio, then sanded down the image in order to enable a fresh start during the next session. On the other hand, I may just start a new painting.

Large painting in progress...

Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)

Kensington Station at Sundown

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm)

Portrait of a Home

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm) -sold

Painting enlargement, revisioning

I am enlarging one of my small Kensington oil sketches to a 24" by 24" (61 cm x 61 cm) format, using a photo as a reference as well as the small study. I may have to break down and buy some paint for the first time in a year!

In this process it is astonishing how little of value is added by the photo, in which so much color is missing.

Figure Painting- Final

Oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm)

A Plein Air Painter

Oil on panel, 6 x 6 inches (15 x 15 cm)

Jeanne Powell painting Ward Mansion in Kensington.

Kensington Mansion From Afar

Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches (36 x 28 cm)

House Portrait in Progress

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm)

Figure Painting- Stage 2 of 3

Oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm)

Tree-Lined Street, Kensington

12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm), oil on panel

On July 4 was the Independence Day parade. A week later one little flag still gamely holds its ground!

Kensington Address in Summer Dress

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm)

House Siblings in Kensington

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm)

Kensington Station

Oil on panel, 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23cm)

Early Stage Figure

Oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm)

In Rob Liberace's class this is the closest I have come so far to Rob's approach to figure painting. Below is the demonstration painting he did of the same subject from a slightly different angle.


Robert Liberace, oil on unstretched canvas, approx. 20 x 16 inches (51 x 41 cm).

Fill 'er Up!

Oil on panel, 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm)

This sweet old filling station in Kensington looks like it dates from the 1920's and it is still operating. The evening light fled before I could finish, so I shall return...

The Yellow Turret

Oil on panel, 10 x 10 inches (25 x 25 cm)

One of the grand old houses of Kensington, Maryland.