sketches for "Winter Storage" "Winter Storage" (watercolor on paper, matted & framed, image size 12"x17") I’m paging through my well used sketch/note/journal book… it’s a few years old now and its looking ratty but there are still some pages to fill.  There are sketches, value studies, teaching commitments, student goals and progress notes, phone numbers, new contacts, notes from museum visits, gallery i

Mid-September to early May, my favorite time of the year.  Changing colors, amazing sunsets and sunrises, empty beaches, Payne's Grey skies and seas, and quiet... it's a different quiet... an introverted quiet, a peaceful quiet.  When it comes to painting and mixing fall greens its time to add more dark blue in that mix. The vibrant greens of spring and summer are gone.  My green, a mixture of American Journey Yellow Ochre and you guessed it Winsor Newton Payne's Grey. WN's P