Showing posts with label florida oil paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label florida oil paintings. Show all posts

Friday, December 15, 2023

 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.

Sunday, December 30, 2018

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"

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Florida Cypress

Florida Cypress Trees
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
24" x 36"
oil on canvas

I painted this scene from sketches made on the boardwalk



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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Monday, August 19, 2013

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.


Sunday, April 7, 2013

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

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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

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