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Leaning Trees 20x16” #gouache #gouachelandscape

Leaning Trees 20x16” #gouache
#gouachelandscapepainting with #coloredpencil #abstractlandscape #abstractlandscapepainting #newenglandartist #novemberlandscape #newenglandwoods #leaningtrees #painterlylandscape #novembercolors #thanksgivingmood #intowinter #artonpaper

November Ash. 20x16” #gouache #paintingwoods #no

November Ash. 20x16” #gouache #paintingwoods #novemberinnewengland #abstractlandscapepainting

Young Forest 20x16” #gouache #onpaper #coloredpe

Young Forest
20x16” #gouache #onpaper #coloredpencil #landscapepainting #treepainting #newenglandwoods

Vote 🗳 Blue this week!! Remembering Summer #g

Vote 🗳 Blue this week!!
Remembering Summer
#gouache and #coloredpencil 20x16”
#voteblue #votebluetosaveamerica🇺🇸💙 #voteblue2022 #votebluetosavetheearth 🌎 #bluelandscape #landscapepainting #abstractlandscapepainting #gouachelandscape #gouacheandcoloredpencils

Autumn, dusk. #gouache #coloredpencil 20x16” the

Autumn, dusk. #gouache #coloredpencil 20x16” the colors at dusk go all gray and lavender. #edgesoffields #dusk #dusklight #beinglost

Sumac and Golden Rod. #gouache and #coloredpencil

Sumac and Golden Rod. #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper 20x16” #autumncolors #sumac #goldenrod #paintingfall #landscape_today #falling #redlandscape #contemporarylandscapepainting

Yellows. #gouache #coloredpencil 10x10” I’m re

Yellows. #gouache #coloredpencil 10x10” I’m reading Suzanne Simard”s Finding the Mother Tree. Thinking of all the underground networks that connect the living, the dying, and the returning.
#octoberinnewengland #paintingtrees #treespeak #mothertrees

Queen Ann’s Lace. 20x16” #gouache and #colored

Queen Ann’s Lace. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper. From August.
#queenannslace #landscapepainting #summerinnewengland #moodypainting #fieldofflowers #outsidein #wildflowers
Last image had mark on it so I’m posting again #flowerspeak

Lavender Woods. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpenc

Lavender Woods. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpencil #onpaper I have a friend who is a gardener, she grows beautiful flowers and sells them at the farmers market in Belchertown. Her flowers business is called @thelavenderwoods This painting made me think of her. #lavenderwoods from a hike with @lisallindgren5 to the #summithouse in August. #landscapepainting #paintingwoods #forestpainting #trees #forestbathing #treespeak

Tree canopies are one of my favorite subjects. The

Tree canopies are one of my favorite subjects. They have so much depth and light. Overlapping shapes and layered geometries. Just finished these two paintings commissioned by a Maine collector who was inspired by looking at the trees above him in a hammock. I know this inspiration so well. All the current research into how trees communicate with each other through fungal networks underground is so exciting. Sometimes it seems as if trees have a special kind of sign language they communicate from above ground too. Perhaps in trying to paint and draw trees we can begin to decode that language. To understand what kinds of meaning are enbedded in the gestures of trees. #treelanguage #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper 20x16” #theoverstory #birchtrees #landscapepainting #drawingtrees #treecanopy #treekin #interspeciescommunication #thelanguageoftrees #leaves #listentotrees #treeglyph #treespeak

I’ve never seen Mount Pollux so dry before. It’s been so hot. We need rain…. Bird cloud, please send rain!
#droughtinnewengland #birdcloud #needrain #landscapedrawing #smalldrawing #coloredpencil #summerlight

Retired Orchard. Gouache and colored pencil on pap

Retired Orchard. Gouache and colored pencil on paper. 20x15”

#acrylagouache #landscapedrawing ##oldappleorchard #coloredpencil #drawingtrees #appletrees #wildrosevine #invasiveplants #invasivevinesareprettysometimes #morninglight #augustinnewengland

Dead apple tree with vines and milkweed. Morning m

Dead apple tree with vines and milkweed. Morning mist. Gouache and colored pencil on paper. 20x15”

#acrylagouache #landscapedrawing ##oldappleorchard #coloredpencil #drawingtrees #appletrees #wildrosevine #invasiveplants #invasivevinesareprettysometimes

Old apple tree with vines. Gouache and colored pen

Old apple tree with vines. Gouache and colored pencil on paper. 20x15”

#acrylagouache #landscapedrawing ##oldappleorchard #coloredpencil #drawingtrees #appletrees #wildrosevine #invasiveplants #invasivevinesareprettysometimes #treespeak

Glassy Lake. 18.5x13” graphite and colored penci

Glassy Lake. 18.5x13” graphite and colored pencils on paper.

#drawingwater #waterislife💧 #adirondacklakes #bluemountainlake #landscapedrawinginpencil #lakedrawing #contemporaryart #artonpaper #drawingnature #staycool #glassywater #glassylake

Two nights on the salty ocean was a perfect retrea

Two nights on the salty ocean was a perfect retreat from the heatwave. #clouds #oceandrawing #sailingart #coloredpencilart #drawingwaves #clouddrawing #drawingjournal

Lake drawing. 9x7” #coloredpencil on paper. #lak

Lake drawing. 9x7” #coloredpencil on paper. #lakedrawing #landscapedrawing #reflection #smalldrawing #adirondackart #workinoutside #bluemountainlake #pleinair

Just finishing #ministryofthefuture highly #recomm

Just finishing #ministryofthefuture highly #recommended. Now digging into #earthemotions #davidwhyte #allwecansave #downtoearth #growingthethirdear #allwecansave and revisiting #1491 for #summerreading2022 #ecolit #ecoliteracy

Another island. Warm light 9x7” #coloredpencil #

Another island. Warm light 9x7” #coloredpencil #abstractlandscape #smalldrawing #landscapedrawing #adirondacks

Seagull Island is an outcrop of smooth granite dom

Seagull Island is an outcrop of smooth granite domes. Some with shrubby blueberries and cedar. Some bald like a pod of whales. 18x12” #coloredpencil #paddling #bluemountainlake #landscapedrawing #waterreflection #adirondacks #foreverwild

Drawings from the lake. 10x8” #coloredpencil #la

Drawings from the lake. 10x8” #coloredpencil #landscapedrawing #adirondackart #dailydrawing #contemporarylandscape

#coloredpencil 9x7” #doodle #landscapedrawing #s

#coloredpencil 9x7”
#doodle #landscapedrawing #smalldrawing #doodledrawing

Shelter C details. Forestation Syncopation (2021)

Shelter C details. Forestation Syncopation (2021) MTA Long Island Rail Road and commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Arts & Design Located at New Hyde Park on the Long Island Railroad. Laminated floatglass. @mtaartsdesign Photography by Etienne Frossard @etienne_fro Fabrication by @mayerofmunich #publicart #glassartwork #transportationdesign #commuterart #floatglass #glaze #windowtint #coloredglass #glasspainting #glassart

Details of the blue shelter on the north platform.

Details of the blue shelter on the north platform. Forestation Syncopation (2021) © Sandy Litchfield, LIRR New Hyde Park Station.
Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
Photos: Etienne Frossard.
Fabrication: Mayer of Munich.
@etienne_fro @mayerofmunich
#floatglass #publicart #transportationdesign #architecturalglass #glassart #fleetingmoments #trainstation

Details of Shelter B. Forestation Syncopation (202

Details of Shelter B. Forestation Syncopation (2021) an original Artwork owned by MTA Long Island Rail Road and commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Arts & Design Located at New Hyde Park on the Long Island Railroad. Laminated floatglass. @mtaartsdesign @mta Photography by Etienne Frossard @etienne_fro Fabrication by @mayerofmunich #publicart #mtaarts #urbanforest #transportation #transportationdesign #percentforart #laminatedglass

Pleased to present-- Forestation Syncopation (2021

Pleased to present-- Forestation Syncopation (2021) an original Artwork owned by MTA Long Island Rail Road and commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Arts & Design Located at New Hyde Park on the Long Island Railroad. Includes three 20-foot long platform shelters with laminated glass artwork of 3 platform shelters --approx. 10 ft high and 20 ft long each. @mtaartsdesign @mta Photography by Etienne Frossard @etienne_fro Fabrication by Franz Mayer of Munich @mayerofmunich
#publicart #mtaarts

With an emphasis on color and light, each shelter depicts the rhythmic flows and fleeting interruptions of the surrounding landscape as it might be seen from the window seat of a train. Intervals of evergreens and oaks mingle with streetlights and utility wires; clusters of houses and buildings intersperse with forest islands and leafy backyard. The title refers not only to a forested station, but also to the variety of unexpected rhythms found in a musical score. Syncopation is a musical term that involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected, and often considered a vital element in holding a musical track together. Forestation is the establishment of forest growth on areas that either had it previously or lacked it naturally. Together, these two concepts describe a continuous landscape that binds and connects the urban town-scape to the tree-lined streets and parks along the railroad.
#urbanforest #transportation #transportationdesign #publicart #percentforart #laminatedglass

Studio day finally!! And spring!! A double dose of

Studio day finally!! And spring!! A double dose of goodness. 9x7” #coloredpencil on paper. Listening to #radiohead #remix thinking of #trees waking up in #newengland #landscapedrawing #springinnewengland #abstractlandscape #lightintrees #entanglements

Thanks @roberleybell @garveysimonartprojects @raf

Thanks
@roberleybell @garveysimonartprojects @raftofsanity @futurefairs for making this happen!! @artillery_mag

Opening TONIGHT!! I will be there. Come visit us!!

Opening TONIGHT!! I will be there. Come visit us!!@futurefairs with @roberleybell @garveysimon @garveysimonartprojects @raftofsanity #paintingandsculpture #sculpture #sculptureandpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting #landscapepainting #abstractlandscape #colortheory

Getting ready for another round of Positions & Pro

Getting ready for another round of Positions & Props with @roberleybell at @raftofsanity in Buffalo opening next weekend. Love pairing my paintings with her sculptures. They just keep talking to each other. #paintingandsculpture #abstract #translations

This stack of books and this landscape are getting

This stack of books and this landscape are getting me through winter.
#chthulucene #stayingwiththetrouble #belonging #artsoflivingonadamagedplanet #latour #ecotopia #anecotopianlexicon #ilovebooks #notimeforwinterblues #wishihadmoretimetoread

Winter Field 16x20” #gouache and #coloredpencil

Winter Field 16x20” #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper. All framed up and ready to go to nyc @garveysimonartprojects @garveysimon thanks @hopeandfeathersframing
#landscapedrawing #winterlandscape #winterinnewengland #contemporarylandscapepainting #contempoaryart #landscapepainting

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