A few more steps to " Andy "

New Orleans Northshore (Mandeville, La Lakefront) ( in progress)

Small Craft Advisory for Lake Pontchartrain

Impressionistic Lake Pontchartrain Sunset

                      16x 20 , Acrylic on Canvas

Another step to Andrew Jackson

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

Andrew Jackson

The deep contrast in color tones  and the backdrop of the blue sky,attracted me to do this New Orleans landmark. Andrew Jackson before the St Louis Cathedral New Orleans, after first few  layers.
20 x 16/ canvas

Egret over Marsh

New Orleans Streetcar

New Orleans Street Car

Sailboat on Lake Pontchartrain and Egret over the marsh

Sailboat on Lake Pontchartrain

More highlights added to water and light tones

Added a sail boat to the Lake Pontchartrain painting. 16 x 20, acrylic on canvas

What has been a very slow progress towards completion, the egret has finally been blocked - in

One day recently in taking photos for future painting projects, in an instant I had noticed a photo op .Ever since, one of those pictures captured started an obsession with painting and completing it, to the exclusion of all other simultaneous unfinished pieces. Here is where I am with it now

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 .

Marsh

The background to the marsh painting is nearly completed.
I have revised it to include details of the cumulonimbus thunderstorm clouds, clustered in the distance.
The far end of the clouds from this vantage point  fade into the distance near the horizon.
The beveled look  to the  horizon is not actually painted that way.
Will adjust and correct to true view in the in the  image software at next posting.

Background on marsh painting nearly finished

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

Lake Pontchartrain seawall

New study
Lake Pontchartrain seawall

more progress on wine study

Cork - Acrylic on paper

 

Practice  tones study for future wine painting

New Orleans Street car Acrylic on canvas

New Orleans Streetcar

Acrylic on canvas.
An  old favorite of tourists and locals.  A work in progress view  of this  impressionistic New Orleans Street car. So far several layers applied to emphasize dark an light tones. Have applied several highlights.

Lake Pontchartrain

 

A few more details added to Lake Pontchartrain's surface

Lake Pontchartrain

Decided to take the Lake Pontchartrain painting to a whole new level.
I've added waves in the foreground, which then necesitated  adjustments to the background, reflective
more of a churning lake, underneath breezy conditions.
Click on image for a larger view of waves.

Another layer over the Lake Water

Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartain sky/seascape

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Finally getting the sky -cloud look striving for in this in progress  

16 x 20 canvas, piece  on Lake Pontchartrain.

The photo for this piece  is looking north out onto the lake on

New Orleans' Lakefront seawall.

Back to starting over on the water. so the water shows only the 

under painting in this stage. I might ad a sailboat in the distance before 

calling it done.

Fisher

9x 12 on canvas board

Lake Pontchartrain

First in  a series of Paintings centered around  Lake Pontchartrain
Acrylic  on 16 x 20 " canvas

And yet a few more layers focusing more definition to the "Apple Study"

Apple Study

Several more layers, and highlights added to the apple study.
I am almost comfortable with beginning the  larger version on canvas

Apple Study Acrylic on Canvas paper in progress

 

Several store bought apples on the counter caught my attention as  an obvious  subject for a large still life painting so I arranged two of those  apples and took about  50 photos. From those photos I  came up with a great looking backilt setting for those two apples. Above is the apple on the left from that photo in this in-progress study, on canvas paper. I am using the apple  as the practice run. The larger canvas painting will have both apples

A little more progress on the Candlestick phone

A little more progress

 

A few more layers, darker and lighter tones, and colors added to the candle stick study

"Bird's Eye View - Lake Pontchartrain"

Continuing  on Lake Pontchartrain theme,  "Bird's Eye View - Lake Pontchartrain" A quiet perch atop a set of old pilings. Commuters on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway headed north to "The North shore",
or south to Metro New Orleans South shore, can occasionally see these Gulls flying  parallel  to the bridge. Acrylic, on 8 x10  canvas. Available  for bidding  on ebay here

Angel female poodle -maltese 12 x 12 linen canvas paper

 

The pose in the photo from which the painting was made, was very captivating to me.It seemed perfect for a painting.As if she had posed just for the photo.

I;ll be making a few corrections and adjustments, and will re-post.

New Orleans Skyline from Lake Pontchartrain -Acrylic on 16 x 20 canvas

Finally had time to do one of many paintings that call me.
This one is the  New Orleans skyline view, as seen from
the north to south Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
from Mandeville, La to Metairie, La.
Available here on e bay 
current e bay listings

One Strawberry - Acrylic 5x7 clayboard panel

Posting an in progress small acrylic. It's been quite a challenge to get a start  to my satisfaction. Hopefully now  I'm on my way.
I'm very much looking forward to start on a few of many  new ideas that have inspired me.One of which is  sea-sky scape , looking  ssw, over Lake Pontchartrain Causeway,  to a   New Orleans  skyline in backdrop, another would be  a  series  of  Angel, a mixed maltese-poodle. I will try to start one of these soon and juggle it with  a few other in-progress pieces.

Pair of Waterspouts - Acrylic - 16x 20 Canvas

Final  touches complete my latest painting  depicting  an occurence not too uncommon in shallow waters of  several southern states, particulary in Southern Fl..(click pic for a larger view)
You can bid for this painting now here on e-bay

A  close-up view of the same painting . .(click pic for a larger view) You can bid here on e-bay

Pair of Waterspouts

Back to my roots and field, Weather forecasting.
My roots as a life long observer, clouds  particularly the summer time versions, of cumulus, cumulonimbus, and so on that are those that develop out of convective (rising )air currents, which  lead to development of summertime thunderstorms, and if conditions are just right, over warm bodies of water,  sometimes the development of waterspouts

A Bottle and a Glass

 My experiment with wine art

A little more detail after another layer added and a few touch-ups

Another one that falls in the category of "in progress"

A great reflection of sunlight and reflective light served the
strong desire to begin a painting mirroring the image I had captured
is the subject  in this unfinished acrylic painting.