I love your technique. 🙂

Love the design and touches of saturated color. Super job IMHO.

Very dreamy and romantic.

Seriously, great stuff.

Water, grasses, and decay. Love it.

So serene

it is lovely. Almost a Van Goghish quality about it.

What a beautiful piece! I can see you are a fan of Turner(as am I)!

Especially the moonlight on the water.

It evokes a feeling in me of early, pre dawn time

Thanks for brightening my evening. WOW!

Things like that always look so much easier than they really are. And I don't see a single thing (other than a few pixel-sized pigment gaps) that could be better.

For that style of work, btw, I like a heavier ground than usual, such as Gamblin's oil painting ground, which fills the dips that you tend to get in the canvas weave a little better. A little smoother surface is more ideal if you aren't going heavy on the brushwork.

Framing on small canvasses is key. I like to start with the frame, really, where you can find something small and ornate, and then create a painting to fill the frame.

Do you teach?

and I taught painting classes to kids when my ex-wife and I owned an art supply store for awhile. I'm not sure I was a very good teacher, but it was always pretty enjoyable.

At a local art store.

I dream of someday seeing the roche pastel store and also Sennelier, in Paris! Won’t happen but I dream.

And classes! Not a week goes by that I don’t look back fondly at art classes I was in as a young person….mostly it was so wonderful to work with other people also working at art. Making art alone in a studio gets very very lonely.

How cool that you did such wonderful things for your community!

Glimmers, reflection of the light off the wet oil paint tbh…there don’t appear to be unpainted spots in real life…I have the hardest time taking photos of my oil paintings without those shiny things…is it just me, is there a trick to taking a photo of a still wet oil painting? I’m so clueless…

and I'm not an expert on that at all. I think generally the more diffuse light the better, like a north-facing window. I have a reflective umbrella I use with a good full spectrum bulb to get a good color-correcting light on the canvas when painting, and that might work well for photographing them as well, haven't tried yet.

Marshland Moon . What did you name it Liberal Loner?

There is a dark authenticity about it, on more than one level.

I like.

💕😍

Please post more of your paintings!

It seems like it should be bigger, though. It could easily be a focal painting. Well done!

and drift away. Thank you for this moment of peace .

Love it. My daughter foes watercolours., landscapes , mostly. Don’t see h h of her art,as she lives in England. As an RN for the NHS.

So much fun to created. Keep ‘‘em coming

That would be in league with the great impressionists.

So lovely.

That is so beautiful! Some day, I'm going to try to learn how to paint like this!

A fleeting moment of quiet contemplation you captured and made permanent.

A gift to anybody feeling stressed!

Seriously..I'm not an art critic,but I love what you've done here!.

Hope to change that.
Got watercolors supplies ... waiting for me to get going ...
Haven't done any oil painting in decades.

As someone who has some appreciation for what you just accomplished, it is so lovely that it is uplifting.

Thanks for sharing.

I love your use of light! You are so talented!

Another gorgeous work of art. I can feel the scene as if I walked right into it. SO good.

It's soft and it surrounds you like a hug. It's so beautiful. Thank you.

My intuition was telling me. Don’t know why I know certain things I have no reason to know, but sometimes in life that’s how it went for me, that magic intuition.

Breast has two masses with edges that make the masses suspicious.

It’s unusual to have cancer in both breasts at the same time. I always was different.

I’ve been having night sweats and I’m been over menopause close to ten years. Looks like it’s spread, maybe, is what I am thinking. Well. let’s see what comes next. I really hate pain, though.