This is my latest effort. It is along the Bullwheel trail in what people who don't know any better call the Peter' s Kill Area at Minnewaska State Park. For some of us, that is a silly name for what will always be Ski Minne, the...
Whenever I'm on my recent plein air excursions, I keep thinking of Tom Thomson who painted the Canadian landscape 100 years ago. He was known for charging into the middle of a storm with his paints to directly capture its fury. Storms, especially approaching storms have...
Last week, I took a 4-day plein air workshop (AKA painting outdoors) to get up to speed on painting landscapes directly from life. It seems to have worked. Here is one of 15 or so panels completed in those 4 days (click on the image...
Age and experience bring with them a new understanding of life, don't they? Those aspects we thought permanent and secure can suddenly vanish. Where does that leave us? What can we depend on? Despite such losses, the universe still seems to hold hints of a...
It's here! The 2026 calendar of local landscapes is available at Handmade & More. It has all new images for each month. Like every year, I’m donating half of the net profits to the preservation efforts of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust. This way, you can...
It will be summer in just a few days. Summer, that time of year where we frantically seek to schedule just the right activities to take advantage of the great weather that is coming. But there is one activity that we never seem to have time...
I've decided to paint more of my landscapes directly from nature ("en plein air" for you liberal arts types). This conjures an image of the solitary artist in a unwavering quest for just the right vista.I was recently in Vermont and decided to paint the...
In my youth, cemeteries always seemed like such a waste of space. But now, a walk through the New Paltz Rural Cemetery can conjure up all sorts of conversations with all kinds of people. (Click on the image to enlarge.) I can go into the...
The County is building its emergency dispatch center in a field directly across from my studio. The first step in the process was to clear out a stand of big old black locust trees--most of whom were either dead or ailing. (Click on the image...
We have yet to have a lot of snow this winter. But there have been some really cold mornings brightened by frost. (Click on the image to enlarge.) Before this, I've never really thought much about frost, other than an as icy nuisance that has...