Florida Slash Pine Hammock

 Old Florida Slash Pine Hammock

oil/linen 24" x 12"

Old Florida Backcountry oil painting of Slash Pine

 and Saw Palmetto Forest

Charles Bullet Florida Landscapes

 Charles Bullet 
in the 
Cici and Hyatt Brown  Museum of Art
Daytona Florida

 Palms in the Mist

Old Florida Backcountry painting of Sabal Palm and Saw Palmetto

 in an abandoned Orange Grove

This original oil painting is 14" x 24" oil on stretched linen canvas and depicts a grove of cabbage palms and slash pine within an Everglades clearing. The day is misty and humid and a soft silvery light pervades the scene.

My newest Florida paintings website is live.

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and

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and

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and

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Florida Moonrise over the Palms

Florida Paintings from New Smyrna Beach

More paintings from my December plein air event in New Smyrna Beach

Path to the Beach

New Smyrna Beach 2018

New Smyrna Beach 2018

From my week of plein air painting in one of my favorite Florida beach hangouts.

 Endless Summer

by Keith Gunderson 

12" x 36"

Live Oak

by Keith Gunderson 

20" x 20"

The path to the Beach

by Keith Gunderson 

14" x 18"

Along the Boardwalk

by Keith Gunderson 

12" x 16"

Paddlers Rest

by Keith Gunderson 

12" x 12"

Billy's truck

by Keith Gunderson 

12" x 24"

New Smyrna Beach Nocturne
by Keith Gunderson
10" x 10"

Naples Florida

A little sketch on panel  6"x 6" in oil of a Naples Florida house in

the prevailing Spanish style architecture so common here.

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Florida Cypress

Florida Cypress Trees

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

24" x 36"

oil on canvas

I painted this scene from sketches made on the boardwalk

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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States. The sanctuary was established to protect one of the largest remaining stands of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and pond cypress (T. ascendens) in North America from extensive logging that was ongoing throughout the 1940s and 50s.

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Corkscrew Giants

Giant Cypresses at the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Everglades Palm Drawing

Everglades Palm

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Wolfs 6B Charcoal Pencil  and White Pastel on Canson

Palm Cottage Naples Florida

Naples Florida Palm Cottage
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I painted this view plein air, i.e., in one sitting from life, of the Naples Palm Cottage.

The Historic Palm Cottage is Naples oldest house (1895) and is proudly maintained by the Naples Historical Society and is located at 137 12th Avenue South,(at Gulfshore Blvd.) a block East of Naples Pier. On May 24, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

It was the summer cottage of the Louisville, Ky Courier Journal and Times then owner/editor, Walter N. Haldeman. Other Louisvillians owned homes in the area in this era.

The house is owned and operated as a museum by the Naples Historical Society

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New website published here:

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I've recently formatted a new website with the emphasis on my Florida paintings.

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

A series of paintings of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

near Naples, Florida.

I've spent many hours working plein air in this magical place- looking to capture the essence of the pristine Florida wilderness- perhaps somehow witnessing through proximity to these massively giant trees that are a living link to secrets thousands of years old.

Corkscrew Sentinels

16" x 24"

Corkscrew Giants

19" x 28"

Grove of the Ancients
24" x 36"

Corkscrew Sunrise
22" x 36"

Ancient Witness
18" 26"

Falling Water S.P. Florida

Here's the finished painting of Falling Water State Park,

The painting took some time for me to capture the essence of the falls. 

The sense of the mist and the rainbow materializing in a ray of light that falls into the shaft, with ferns

 clinging to the sides of the rock. Beyond and above there is the creek that tumbles forward, yet never reaching the river as it it's fate is to be swallowed by the earth.

Falling Water
18" x 20"

Here's a version with a layer showing a slightly darker rocks.

Golden Sunset

Here's a small plein air sketch, in an old orange grove by a canal near Naples.

Golden Sunset

9" x 12"

oil on linen

Everglades City Sunset

Here's a plein air view from near the crab boat slips, looking toward the airport .

Everglades City Sunset

16" x 24"

oil on linen

Everglades Majesty

Painted at the Collier Seminole State Park. Hiked in with my gear from the parking lot about 20 minutes

and found this amazing view... I could have been deep in the heart of the Amazon, miles from civilization, if I didn't know better.

Everglades Majesty

12" x 18"

oil on linen

Everglades City Hall

Here's a plein air view I painted in front of the city hall in Everglades City.

Everglades City Hall

18" x 20"

oil on linen

The Old Orange Grove

Here's a view I painted in an old orange grove populated by Sabal palms and Melalueca near the Southwest Florida Conservancy in Naples, Florida.

The Old Orange Grove

14" x 26"

oil on  linen

Home of the Heron

Here's a plein air scene I painted from a canal winding itself through east Naples

Home of the Heron
16" x 20"
oil on linen