Showing posts with label floridalandscapepaintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label floridalandscapepaintings. Show all posts

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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Sunday, April 19, 2015

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

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

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