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 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

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"

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Corkscrew Swamp

14" x 22"

I ventured out on the boardwalk to find this motif.

Ebbing Light

Another favorite group of Melaleuca and Sabal palm in Naples.

Florida Hammock

Near the Conservancy in Naples I found a quiet spot,- classic  tropical hardwood hammock.

Everglades City Crab Boat

Here's a plein aire scene that I painted along the inlet in Everglades City where all the Stone Crab boats are tied up.The fisherman have their traps and gear stacked nearby and the multicolored floats hanging in the palm and malaleuca have great charm .

Everglades City Crab Boat 20" x 24"

Tamiami Trail

Here's a painting I painted from the side of the road east of everglades city beyond the Big Cypress Park.

Tamiami Trail 24" x 36"

Sunset Palms

Here"s a little plein air sketch I made at the Conservancy of South Florida in Naples.

This one is entitled

 Sunset Palms 9" x 12"

Cayo Costa

A bit of the beach with some Sabal Palms in sunset light.

Plein Air from Cayo Costa beach across from Boca Grande.
Cayo Costa Sunset 12" x 12"

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"