Walnut Street Bridge over Red Clay Creek

It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. Sun setting on Walnut Street Bridge over Red Clay Creek. There is plenty to paint within a few hundred feet from my studio. I only need to be attentive to what the land has to share.

This tree with the bleached bark

It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. It is the first day of spring. Around the corner on Race and Cypress Streets. What is this specie of tree called? For 4 years I have thought that this tree on Race and Cypress Streets was dead. I have been itching to make a painting of this tree since moving to Kennett Square in 2014. I often asked myself how do I paint this tree because there are so many things going on around it, and while I was painting, so many gnats doing their midair courtship around my face. Anyway, here it is.

Sometimes some outdoor paintings need a bit of tweaking in the studio

It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. Sometimes some outdoor paintings need a bit of tweaking in the studio, and this one was one of them. I usually do not like to tweak my plein air paintings because it seems to loose its feel of spontaneity. But I was restless, so tweaked I did, and very carefully. I am rather please with it. Now off I go to Race and Cypress Streets to tackle a tree that I have been itching to do since moving to Kennett Square in 2014.