I imagine you are as tired of this one as I am but I'm finally happy with it. I had to rearrange my studio to finish it because wet oil ...

Earlier today, when I thought I was done painting on this, I had a nice long phone conversation with a good friend and while chatting I saw ...

I have long been an advocate of painting landscapes from memory. My theory is that by a certain age one has many "memorable" sce...

Yay! I survived the acrylic underpainting stage (seen in my last post) and spent an hour yesterday morning with oil. Considering the man...

I have spent most waking hours of several days working on the figurative piece shown as a line drawing in my last post. I had, what I though...

Coming full circle back to figurative work? I'm thinking about this. I just posted a lot of words on my Golden Years Blog about li...

Ah....s u m m e r! My main focus has been the gardens and I am starting to miss my Studio time. Yesterday, for a  short time I put on my ...

ACRYLIC! On the 11th of June I posted the beginning of this painting. Since then I switched out the round vase for a square one and worked...

Hi Everyone, I almost forgot to post about this! I'm participating in the Etsy Anniversary Sale. All work in my Etsy Shop, BBNewtonArt...

I feel obligated to paint my beautiful peonies that are now in bloom so I arranged a bouquet, pulled out a Venetian Red gessoed cradled pane...

About a week ago I completed a 40 minutes oil block-in with a #14 Short Flat of my next painting. I was happy because I had manages to k...

I can't paint another minute on this rhododendron. Percy Wiseman, oil, 24x24 inches.

Japanese Iris, oil, 8x6 inches

I've been absent from all my usual online sites for the last week due to gardening. My studio garden is starting to look good but tod...

Today is our Fourth Anniversary at Mill Pond Cottage and the Studio Garden is improving each year. Absent from the garden photo is my early...

Advice to myself that finally got me to about 80% complete on Percy Wiseman Rhododendrons, oil, 24 x 24 inches. I’ve been an art in...

...paint over it to begin again. In my post of April 30th, I was excited to paint daffodils. Then, I got busy with other things and the da...

Demo today at the Black Diamond Arts Alliance 2018 Open Art Exhibit. "Begonias Again," pastel, 8 x 10 inches. Here are a coupl...

Demo today at the Black Diamond Arts Alliance 2018 Open Art Exhibit. "Saturday Bouquet," pastel, 10 x 8 inches. Here are a few ...

These doubled daffodils popped up in one of my pots. They are unlike any daffs I've had before so I cut them and took some still life ...