Jersey - alternate choices

11 July 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

10 July 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

I should have posted these last month; they were alternate choices for Bill Guffey's July Virtual Paintout.  Click <here> for the painting I submitted.

Kew Gardens - last in a run of ten

2 June 2011
5" x 5", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - nine in a run of ten

2 June 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - eight in a run of ten

29 May 2011
14" x 18", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - seven in a run of ten

28 May 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

Virtual Paintout submission

10 July 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

I just submitted this to Bill Guffey's July Virtual Paintout.  Click <here> for the Google Street View reference.

Kew Gardens - five and six in a run of ten

27 May 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

27 May 2011
5" x 5", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - third and fourth in a run of ten

25 May 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

26 May 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - two in a run of ten

25 May 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Kew Gardens - one in a run of ten

24 May 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

The painting reference is from Google Street View.  I'd have much preferred to have visited in person...

River Cherwell from gardens of Rousham House

2 March 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

The painting reference is from Wikipedia Commons, a photograph taken by Hans Bernhard, and so is also posted here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unportedlicense.  The view is from the grounds of Rousham House in Oxfordshire, England.

Kew Gardens, Richmond, UK

9 March 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

This painting was from a virtual Google Street View tour.

Mill Lane, Cornwall, United Kingdom

24 February 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Here's yet more virtual touristing...  Must... travel... soon...  The Google Street View link is <here>.

North Yorkshire, UK, along the A684

22 February 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

Here's more virtual touristing...  The Google Street View link is <here>.

along Wheatley Road, Oxfordshire, UK

21 February 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

This was another virtual travel, this time following waterways outside Oxford.  Click <here> for the Google Street View link.

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom (two versions)

20 February 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper

19 February 2011
8" x 10", acrylic on paper

I was doing some virtual touristing via Google Maps for this, following rivers and streams inland from Scarborough, UK.  Click <here> for Google Street View reference.

Upware in Cambridgeshire - view from Upware Road (two versions)

15 February 2011
14" x 18", acrylic on paper

16 February 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

This view comes from virtual traveling via Google maps.  Click <here> for the link.

Haworth, United Kingdom - Top Withins

16 February 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

During my visit to Haworth to visit the Bronte parsonage (back in 1999 - I can't believe it was so long ago), I walked about the moors.  Not surprisingly, I didn't run into Heathcliff or Mr. Rochester - just a lot of sheep.  I visited Top Withins, thought to be the inspiration for Heathcliff's home, Wuthering Heights.

Bronte country (two versions)

I was looking around via Google maps at the countryside around Haworth, where the Bronte sisters lived, and found this view to paint.  I know this is not a unique experience, but I remember discovering Jane Eyre in high school and feeling like it was a literary epiphany.  It so nicely resonated with my teen angst.  I subsequently began devouring all of the novels by the Bronte sisters (as well as other 19th century British women writers).  As I mentioned previously in a post, I did something of a pilgrimage to Haworth back in 1999.


6 January 2011
14" x 20", acrylic on paper



23 January 2011
5" x 7", acrylic on paper

Tal-y-llyn Lake

Here's another painting of Tal-y-llyn Lake in Wales; I'd painted a different view of it previously.

21 December 2010
7" x 10", acrylic on paper