LOUISIANA EGRET #2

Close up of just completed  2nd egret painting.
Acrylic on canvas
16 x20

Louisiana Egret

Louisiana Egret
20 X 16
acrylic on canvas

Complete

LOUISIANA EGRET

Painted in it's beak. Birding experts
say that the egret's bills do change color from yellow to orange.

Louisiana Egret

There several classifications of the Egret bird.
This one particular Egret is one of many that can be also spotted in Louisiana.
16 by 20
Acrylic on canvas

Louisiana Brown Pelican

Experimenting with a quick 
impressionistic rendering  
of Louisiana's State bird, the Louisiana  Brown Pelican.
The sky and water was applied with wet on wet pigment  blended onto canvas, with finger, as I have once painted with oil pastels.
#painting #impressionism #LouisianaPelican #Louisianaart #Louisiana #bird #Nola #nolaart

French Quarter Hitching Post

As in most of my most paintings in realism , objects Grab and Beg me to paint them. It all starts when  a unique composition of an object framed into my line of of sight  will first grab and hold my attention, and  asethitcally showcase it's negative space, shadows, reflected light, and highlights.
Does  this happen to you too?

A prime example of this is this New Orleans French Quarter hitching post. pressed here. Yet another of many of  in- progress paintings.
In this update I just stained -in a few touches to lightest areas.

Cafe Du Monde

Cafe Cafe Du Monde
4th session
In progress, Acrylic
painting  of view crossing
Decatur Street, approaching Cafe Du Monde,  leaving the perimeter of Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

New Orleans French Quarter Royal St Hitchin Post

Added a few more layered stains in black and blue tones to this in progress Royal Street Hitchin post in front of Brennan's restaurant

"Eye"

Looking through some old photos, recently I came across a couple of old paintings. This is one those. One of my first experimental paintings in realism. This painting hooked me on realism painting.
This painting is one of my all time favorite paintings.

Third session additional layers onto Andrew Jackson - Jackson Square New Orleans
20x16 canvas

New Orleans Streetcar

New Orleans Street Car

Sailboat on Lake Pontchartrain

More highlights added to water and light tones

Prepped and ready for the Egret

The Marsh Painting,16 x 20 on canvas

More layers and new work on foreground.
Additional layers to follow and decision as to whether or not  to include the egret in this painting, or just start another painting ,
as the storm in this piece has taken over as the focal point.
The decision was made to go forward  with Egret .

Louisiana marsh study

Through this study, getting down the basics of tone, color, sky - water marsh, and background, for a marsh landscape, that might include an Egret

LOUISIANA MARSH

Louisiana
Marsh
in the fall










 
Louisiana Marsh in the Fall
12 x 12 Linen Canvas Acrylic Paper
Acrylic

Sunlight sparkles across the an open marsh waterway,
behind the silhouette of foreground tree, the inspiration
for this small landscape, depicting a fall scene in a
south Louisiana marsh in early October.
Colors change slowly in the Louisiana Delta fall season.
Green foliage hangs on even through the official start of
the winter season. The possible landscape compositions
are as countless as the Louisiana Cypress trees,
marshes and wildlife.