Three small ones,same place, different times.

Meenan's Cove Park trail, on an unseasonably warm day in March. That's ice on the river in background. This is on black Richeson Unison sanded paper, very rough tooth.

The next two were done in April, on red matboard primed with sanded clear gesso. They…

We spent a week in Varadero doing a lot of serious relaxing. I did manage to exert myself a couple of times with my mini-kit.

This is the beach and my setup. I omitted the sunbathers between me and the water. It's 5x7 on UART sanded paper, stuck into a moleskine-type sketchpad.…

I spent 3 weeks in Switzerland in the fall, visiting my daughter who is a grad student in Zurich. I saw a fair amount of the country and took 300 pictures, but didn't have much time for plein air painting.

This is a quick little sketch of the view out my window in Zermatt; the Matterhorn at 7a.m., with the sun just hitting the top. I only had a 4x4 brown-paper pad and 3 different pencils, but I had to give it a shot.…

 The weather was terrible and I didn't get many opportunities to get out. Here are some studies I managed to get done. Most of them are experiments with my new Pan Pastels. The jury's still out on whether this will be a medium I can embrace; it's still a bit dusty and I need a mask indoors, and the wands, like brushes, are never as satisfying as holding the medium directly in my hand.

on the beach in front of our cottage    Pan Pastels…