When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts in Saline, Michigan (early on his journey to achieve Eagle Scout), an annual ritual for the troop...

I thought I would spice up my underpainting techniques to do paint this landscape of a field at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor....

On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State...

While working on another large 21x27 pastel painting, I thought I would break up my schedule with a small study. At the same time, I...

The latest version of my plein air painting at the Pittsfield Preserve. I guess it is 50% "plein air" as I am completing the pastel in...

This painting was started as our field demo in "The Landscape in Pastel" class at the Michigan Art Center. I darkened the ground above...

In the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road near Saline, MI. An early morning in June, the soybeans were starting to emerge with vigor as...

This morning I had the privilege to meet Ed Kennedy, PSA. Ed resides in the same town as I do, in Saline, MI., so we got together to...

Strolling through Furstenberg Park in Northeast Ann Arbor, I came across an open field housing scattered birch trees. I was inspired: I...

Before I publish my work-in-progress dissertation condemning the use of the "color" black, I thought I would share progress on "Daybreak...

My winter scene as noted in my recent blog "Many Shades of Grey" has earned itself a warm and contrary color watercolor underpainting. I...

Often when viewing a landscape painting in progress, we feel that there is "something wrong" but don't quite know what that something is!...

Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.

The reference photo for the birch tree painting in progress has a tangled mess of grasses, weeds, small trees and shrubs that appear to...

I could not resist painting this picked-over corn field in late September. The field is at the corner of Marton and Textile Roads, in...

At any time in my studio, there can be several paintings in progress. I allow these paintings to "mellow" and take on further refinements...

Here's the first cut of initial pastel to the "tree" painting. I like it; perhaps it stands alone as an abstract landscape.