I love to watch how an upright bouquet of flowers begins to wilt and bend, dropping it's petals or curling in shape, all in creating new compositional challenges to enhance a sketch.

My first adventure down on a riverbank early in the spring of 2019.

While walking along the beach, I like to keep an eye out for interesting objects to sketch for possible reference in larger paintings in the studio.  On this day, I picked up two feathers on the sand that were from sea birds and a couple of shells to sketch in pencil and color pencil.
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These mini 4" x 4" acrylics on canvas were painted after taking a lovely walk over the new Hudson River skywalk in Catskill, NY.  When I'd completed my first mini canvas, I couldn't help but to play around with other color combinations depicting different seasons and times of day.  For the past three years my work has been on display at the Skywalk Arts Festival held at the entrance to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Catskill, NY.
These paintings are now available for purchase on my gallery shop page located at:
https://www.stilegalleryshop.com/new-products

It is the season for putting down the paintbrush and picking up the palette knife and pastry bag in order to decorate holiday treats for gift giving.  This year we decided to bake chocolate and yellow cupcakes rather then sugar cookies which wasn't quite as much work but still just as much fun!
Happy Holiday's!  

​The ​Catalpa Tree is just stunning when the flowers are in bloom and have painted them into a 5’ x 6’ oil on canvas.

I perched my easel on a wooded ridge trail overlooking the river through the trees below.  This made for a lovely spot to do an acrylic on canvas.  Working for almost an hour, I decided to take a break and sit  down on a fallen tree trunk, taking a minute first to look around for any creepy crawling bugs.🕷🕸  But to my surprise, a nest of angry ants came out from the tree only to bite my legs, sending me to jump forward then stumbling into my easel and trays full of wet paint. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

It's been quite a learning experience in the art of video making.  I'm still in the process of understanding file sizes, downloading, editing and more, but it hasn't stopped me from filming some of the many painting adventures which I truly love to explore and having the opportunity in sharing them with you!