Last Glorious Days of Autumn

This is a larger painting than I have done for quite a while.

SUN THROUGH THE RED MAPLE LEAVES

FIELD OF HAY

THE KATSURAS DROP THEIR LEAVES

OCTOBER MORNING

LAST POOL DAYS

LAWN OF LEAVES

Fall Vegetable Garden

Still have not posted all the paintings done in other people's gardens but in the meantime it is fall and I want to post the season's crop.

EARLY FALL LANE

YELLOW GRIST MILL

JOANNA'S GARDEN

by the Creek #2

One of the nice things about this trip to other peoples properties is that you often get to go to the same place the next year. Here is another version of the same creek.

BY THE CREEK #1

STORM CLOUDS

GARDEN TAPESTRY #2

GARDEN TAPESTRY

The Long View

On the day I painted this the sun kept moving along over all the fields lighting them up as it went. I finally had to decide on one version of the light show.

Provence in Pennsylvania

This lovely house and garden looks just as I imagine a chateau in France must but it is actually nestled in the hills of Chester County. On the other side of the house there are lovely lavender gardens. I didn't get to the other side until it was too late to paint them so I'm looking forward to next year.

COUNTRY CALM

Every year the Wayne Art Center offers a work shop of sorts. One signs up and then a map comes in the mail to various locations around the area where you are welcome to come and paint for the day. These spots are always beautiful and it is a little adventure to follow the map and end up in a lovely garden or field with a bunch of other artists.

I will be posting paintings from this adventure for the next week or so. They won't always be from this year but the first couple are.

Ben in the Secret Garden

This is the last painting of the secret garden that will have any semblance of order as I have abandoned it to the weeds. (At least for this year) At the moment there is not a sign of the brick paths and all sorts of new plants have sprung up. In the foreground of this painting is my much loved dog Ben, who loved to pose whenever he got a chance. This slide is not too good unfortunately.