The Joy of Painting on Loose Pre-Gessoed Canvas

Oil on canvas 14 x 18.

Perhaps I should have stretched up some nice linen. However, having the ends of some canvas rolls to just tack onto a board and start working on is a no pressure situation. If I mess up (which is often the case) the work becomes part of the flotsam of neglected art over there in the corner of my studio.  I have a lot of this scrap canvas, which was purchased when I worked near an art supply store a few years ago.

Mennonite Girl

This is a painting I started the other day. It has been a great day to paint, raining all day, cool, nowhere to go. The canvas is tacked to a board, just under 18 x 24 inches.
I have a whole lot of canvas that I bought on several rolls around the studio. These are the ends of rolls that Plaza Art had up front for quick sale. A quick and easy way to just start a piece quickly by tacking the canvas on a drawing board.

If youth but knew; if age but could

"If youth but knew; if age but could," oil on linen 18 x 24

Corn Maze II

Here there is a bit more done to the piece, still though, lots to work out.

Corn Maze

Work in progress. Oil on linen, 18" x 24.'

Arthur Wayne Corle

A.W. Corle, oil on masonite.


In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.

Edward Thomas

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

"Jingle Bells" oil on masonite 4" x 4."

This is just a real quick 30 minute painting I did today at the Locality Gallery in Bedford PA.