Watercolors The style of a painter may vary, but over time a pattern may emerge that cause viewers to declare they recognize it. For me, patterns are affected not only by what I paint but by what I am using, my...
From where I sit When I paint plein air in the woods, I try to capture the feeling of the place. Every location and every day and time of day is different. I paint pretty fast, yet often the scene is changing...
I was in my favorite spot in the woods this morning, doing a painting. A person asked, “Do you paint the same trees over and over again?” I answered that I don’t know because I haven’t yet discovered all of...
Donaldson's barn site It is morning, about 9 am, and I am sitting in the woods on the spot of the old Donaldson barn. The stone foundation is still there, rocks rough cut and arranged to support a pole barn. It was...
" Angelito “Lito” de Leon David,watercolorist, was vested an Award of Excellence last Saturday, July 12, by the New Jersey Water Color Society for his sole entry entitled, Winter Reflection. The Associate Members Annual Show is currently ongoing at the Morris County...
The finals of this year's football season are well underway. The college bowls, the NFL playoffs, the run up to the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl itself -- all of these will be hard to escape over the next month...
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For a number of years now, I have been painting individual Christmas cards that I send to special friends. I haven't saved every card that I have done (I started sometime in the late 1980s, I think), but I have...
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Lots of good stuff for the sports fan this weekend.Down my way, the Vols (Tennessee Volunteers -- Rocky Top and all that)
take on Georgia on Saturday evening in a game that will have a lot to
do with how fans on...
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We're into the most exciting part of baseball, the postseason. This period produces some tense and intensely played games where the stakes of a single pitch, a bunt, or a base-running decision arre enormous.For...
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