RUTH
oil
8" x 6"

Punta Gorda VAC Portrait Studio sketch.

PLACIDA FISH MARKET CATS
oil
6" x 8"

One of those perfect little paintings done on the spot! Early morning with the Punta Gorda plein air group and a few Englewood Plein "air heads," as they sometimes like to call themselves.

HATHAWAY PARK
oil
10" x 8"

Painted this awhile ago and didn't like it. Painted (leftover oil paints in midtone range) over it and now it's under a new painting. Now, I'm a little sorry.

FLORIDA COWBOY
0il
20" x 16"

The cowboy without the palm trees was painted in acrylic about ten years ago. Decided to try it in oils with ten more years of painting experience. It's a little better I think, but like both versions.

CLARISA
oil
8" x 6"

DONNA
oil
8" x 6"

Another Punta Gorda Visual Arts Center Portrait Studio sketch. I look forward to painting with this group every Thursday morning from 9-12.

DOC'S ISLAND GEESE
oil
8" x 6"

Geese waddled by while I was painting. Snapped a photo and put them in later. Went back to this painting a third time and added highlights. Think it works better with lighter shadows on building.

EMERALD POINT
oil
6" x 8"

The morning we (VAC Plein Air Group) painted at Emerald Point on the Peace River, Punta Gorda... clouds were moving in fast. Gust of wind snapped the leg of Noble's French easel. Finished this later.

Boca Bakery

BOCA BAKERY
oil
6" x 4"

Boca Grande, Florida. Another tourist shocked by reading real estate listing prices!

Boca Tower

BOCA TOWER
oil
6" x 4"

Another Monday plein air... with threat of thunderstorms. Worked fast and finished at home. Fire ants were fierce in parking lot behind Depot Building.

Boca Grande Lighthouse
oil
6" x 8"

Painted Monday before last with Punta Gorda VAC plein air group... Beautiful, windy day with racing clouds. Gulf was an impossible shade of blue-green. Almost lost my painting umbrella into the pass. A man stood on the porch for a perfect spot of red.

ASHLEY
oil
8" x 6"

Punta Gorda VAC Portrait Studio painting. Live model every Thursday, 9-noon. Talented group of artists.