The Bad Earth Painting

I have a non-traditional artistic arc. I began as a Mathematician and scientist with a successful 30 year career at the world-renowned Bell Telephone Laboratories where I received many accolades and patents. I “retired” early and then began taking art classes. I recognized I had artistic talent and was mentored by the late S. Allyn Schaefer in landscape painting and by Enrique Flores-Galbis in figure and portrait painting. I work exclusively in oil. Now, more than 20 years later, I look back on the excitement of painting. I paint in the Impressionistic style with strokes of paint, each consisting of one or two hues, covering the entire canvas. I especially like painting water and its reflections. Here I am inspired by the Norwegian painter Fritz Thaulow, with his unparalleled water paintings. I start with a canvas toned with yellow ochre and white. This high-key ground is covered by transparent glazes in places, or allowed to peek through as a color in other places. This technique, together with broken brush work and careful placement of adjacent values and hues, creates the shimmer of the water in my works. I hope that my collectors enjoy my paintings as much as the enjoyment I had in creating them!