Some recent plein air paintings and a pastel demo. Lots of palm trees in this batch!
Tuesday catchup
plein air
T-Shirt Update
Just finished a major update to my arty-tees page. I’ve added new tshirts and hoodies as well as adding more color selections for some tshirts. There are two links for some tshirts because amazon only lets me pick 5 colors per tshirt or product, so I just made another listing with more color choices. Also, some good news, the price on the hoodies dropped, thanks to amazon.
These are the paintings now available on tshirts and a couple of hoodies:
Painted Pony
The Beaten Path
Retired
Spring Marsh
You can go to the arty-tees page for further details and links to amazon here.
If you have any questions, comments, feedback please feel free to leave a comment or email me.
Tuesday again
Last Tuesday was especially fun. My group painted at the Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation in Palm City, FL. We had painted there before and will paint there again. So, I decided to paint one of the mini horses. It turns out he is an ambassador for ERAF and that’s understandable. Using pastels on Ampersand Pastelbord, I captured his sweetness and also have published the image on Amazon as one of my arty-tees – both a tshirt and a hoodie.
Here is the link to the tshirt:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PLFD5XT
and the hoodie:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PH4XRZR
Here is Harry the mini painted pony, ERAF Ambassador: 11×14 Pastels on Board
Tuesday Paintings
This painting is a bit different for me – done in gouache on a panel called “Aquabord” made by Ampersand. I laid out my colors on a wet paper towel on my oil palette/easel so they wouldn’t dry out. Then I used both painting knives and brushes to paint. The nice thing about the gouache is that it can be reworked by rewetting, it dries fast and you can mix watercolors in if you are missing a color. Since painting this I’ve used just white gouache with my watercolors in my sketchbook and really like that effect too.
If you want to frame without glass you can coat with Renaissance wax, an archival sealer.
The location was Shadowood Farm in Palm City, Fl. Its an organic farm and everything is grown in raised beds. [Rabbit prevention] Next time I go there I’ll try to paint the garden but this time I couldn’t resist the pond.
Tuesday Paintings – of Boats
Some boat paintings from plein air Tuesdays. All are oil paint on panels.
The little white boat was at Shephards Park in Stuart, FL.
This is Jocko – he’s retired at the Indiantown Marina, Indiantown, FL.
Little sail boats at the sailing school next to Indian Riverside Park, Jensen Beach, FL.
This boat is named “At Last” and is anchored at Sunset Marina in Stuart, FL.
Catching up on Tuesday Paintings
There are many more Tuesday paintings that I haven’t photographed yet. But here are a few that have been just waiting to be shared. My computer was totally out of order for awhile, so I’m still trying to catch up.
The Red Bridge on Jupiter Island
In the not too distant past, on a Tuesday of course, just before Christmas in fact, a friend and I decided we should go paint the red bridge on Jupiter Island. It was a beautiful day and there were plenty of people passing by. The bridge is located at the end of a bike path and connects the island to another smaller island called Harbor Island, that the local garden club maintains. My inclination is always to paint the bridge even though there are plenty of options over on Harbor Island. The only disappointment was that since the last time I was there, they painted the bridge a duller red than the true red it was for years. I’m hoping that they go back to the old color soon. It’s just not as brilliant as it once was. In spite of that though, my painting was sold before it dried.
So, this all happened 7 years ago. Recently, 2025, I was contacted by the buyer wanting to know if I was still painting. Something happened to the painting, got lost in a move or something. He commissioned me to paint a replacement. It was different, and harder to do because I tried to at least get the same viewpoint. Anyway, he’s happy with the new version of the red bridge.
Elliot Museum Show
Two of my plein air paintings were selected to be in this invitational show, which is already hung at the Elliot.
If you are in the area, hope you get a chance to swing by. 🙂
The St. Lucie River on a Tuesday
These two plein air paintings of the St. Lucie River were done at the Veterans Memorial Park in Port St. Lucie, FL. One is smaller. I was on a huge boardwalk. Several other people painted from the giant size picnic pavillion. It was a breezy, pleasant day with jumping fish.
Using All The Crayons 