Tag Archives: Hunting Island

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ArtFields

ArtFields in Lake City, SC opens this Friday, April 25.  Please look for my painting Maritime Forest at Southern Distributing, 111 N. Church Street.  The painting was inspired by the landscape at Hunting Island, SC. […]

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Hunting Island Beach

This small painting is based on a trip to Hunting Island last winter.  I used a limited palette of burnt sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine blue and white to evoke the quiet deserted beach.    

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Winter Beach

Continuing my experimentation with oil paints, I signed up for Mary Gilkerson’s Stucture and Surface workshop to learn more about solvent-free oil painting and techniques using painting knives.  Since the weather has been so warm […]

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Maritime Forest

  During a trip to Hunting Island a few months ago, I was fascinated by the way the maritime forest changed from dense forest to driftwood in a short distance from the lighthouse to the […]

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Hunting Island Palms

This small painting was created on location at Hunting Island State Park.  I used a thin wash of gold and lavender gray to suggest filtered sunlight and trees in the background and painted the palms […]

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Hunting Island Evening

This week’s painting is another small piece from a recent trip to Hunting Island.  I didn’t want to set up my easel because it was getting dark and it was quite windy on the beach. […]

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Hunting Island Path

This small painting is from a wonderful trip to South Carolina’s Hunting Island State Park this past weekend.  It is painted on rough paper using fluid acrylics in a watercolor technique.

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