New Paltz Dutch Church on Huguenot Street

Watercolor plein air on Huguenot Street.

Pastel Plein Air

Painted this week in New Paltz.

I can get a lot of info into a shorter painting session with pastels. I don't have to work so hard a edge detailing -where I would have to be very focused with palette knife work and the edges of fan brushes to get the delicate lines that I can achieve with a single drawn stroke of a hard pastel stick.

Huguenot Street in New Paltz.

Huguenot Street Plein Air

Huguenot STreet Day and the artists are out in force.

Millbrook Mountain in the Gunks

A few paintings here depicting Millbrook Mountain from the fields of Gardiner New York, looking west toward the Shawangunk range.

Plattekill Creek

I painted this one later in the day after painting the New Paltz morning view. Thunderstorms roared through over the Shawangunk ridge all afternoon, yet there was a break around 2:00-4:30. This is when I shoehorned in this one. Beautiful motif- there really are cows that come down to the creek to drink and cool off. Reminds me very much of the Hart brothers, especially James MacDougal Hart.

Early Morning New Paltz

I painted this scene early this morning for the Mark Gruber Gallery's Paint the Town show. Mark holds this annual plein-aire event for selected artists where the theme of the show is the local New Paltz New York scene. This is a view down Main Street with the Shawangunk Mountains looming in the background. Very early on weekend mornings, just an hour or so after the popular college bars have closed for the night, finds the owner of P&G's, sweeping the street and airing out the bar for the start of a new day.