Fishing at Sunrise, Promised Land Lake 11 x14 oil on canvas

We were first introduced to this lake and State Park back in 1970 when my dad and uncle took us camping for the first time. What an adventure that was just being outdoors for the whole weekend, fishing out on the lake and sitting around the campfire at night.

Its a beautiful State Park loaded with wildlife, trails for hiking, and a great lake for fishing and canoeing.
Even though its three hours away the great feeling you get being there keeps us coming back as many times as we can each year.

Autumn Landscape Valley Forge National Park

This is a studio painting done from pictures taken at Valley Forge National Park.  Last fall my brother and I went there at dawn to photograph the wildlife and get reference material for future paintings.  Knowing the full moon was out that night I wanted to get there early to do a sketch of it, but I would have to use the light from the back of the truck so I could see what I was painting.

                         5x7 sketch

Almost Gone

With the higher tempertures we are enjoying the snow is just about gone revealing the dormant winter grass. Alot of people don't care for the snow, in the beginning when its new its ok but after a while they tire of it.

Artists look at it differently, snow provides us with new seasonal painting material. After painting the greens of summer and the colors of fall, snow presents us with another challenge, to capture the moods of winter.

Here are my attempts to capture those moods of winter over the years.

Hope you enjoyed these scenes, thanks for looking.

Pat