Florida Watercolor Paintings

From Honeymoon Island in beautiful
Dunedin, Florida

A Key West quick sketch watercolor

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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

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

Moonrise over the Everglades

Painted en plein air near the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

Moonrise over the Everglades

16" x 20"
oil on linen

The Abandoned Boat

Here's a painting that I executed near the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

A favorite motif of mine- a boat out of water.

The Abandoned Boat

12" x 22"
Oil on Linen

Florida Moonrise

Florida Mooonrise

20" x  24"

The Abandoned Boat

Fresh off the easel- another of my favorite motifs-

The Abandoned Boat 12" x 20"

Florida Palms

Here's another painting 24" x 30" Florida Palms

that I'm putting some last touches on.
The Cuban Palm in the center of the composition needs work, as well as the sky and the foreground.
Some harmonizing sky motif seems to be called for here.

Florida Sunset

Here's a painting that I'm just finishing up.
Really an experiment in close value modeling, I'm finding that I am using the red-green simultaneous contrast as my color mixing harmonic,as the vortex of orange light diminishes , the local color and shadow creep back into the mass tone.I remember years ago there was a George Inness exhibition at the Metropolitan museum,  and there was a dusk-afterglow landscape that I was totally captivated by. I was blown away by the extreme close value modeling in dark silhouettes in back light, and how chroma was squashed down so that it was irrelevant... all that mattered were extremely small variations in color temperature which made forms recede into the mist.Making these forms recede while in front of a vortex of warm light , as in a sunset, requires using the tools of contrast as well as color temperature.
Florida Sunset 24" x 48"