Couple of New Paintings

"View from the Crew House"...8x10 oil on Panel

Set up by the Syracuse Univ crew house. Looking down river to Onandoga Lake. Thought about painting the crew boats, but fear got the best part of me. The green already had me vapor locked. 


"Morgan Road Farm" 8x10 oil on Panel

Road past this washed out barn on my bike, came back and painted it from across the field.

Red Jungle Fowl Rooster

This was certainly a fun experiment in using paints; lots of palette knife work.  The reference was of a red jungle fowl from a farm in Kauai.  These birds sort of lend themselves to be painted impasto.   I took some liberties with the extra color throughout the canvas for balance