" Snag"

Snag , is another scene  I had painted many years ago as a water color of a gentleman fishing in 90 degree summer weather. It intrigued me  how he could wear that heavy coat  in such heat and humidity while I stood sweating in my t-shirt and shorts. As I wiped the sweat from my brow he went about his task oblivious to anything and everything around him. I admired him for his focus !

    I had the pleasure of seeing the original water color after many years just a few weeks ago. It's fun to see your work  again like meeting an old friend you had forgotten and to observe that perhaps you were not as bad as you thought you might have been.

   In the original painting titled : " Stalking His Prey" he carries a net with him in the right hand. In this painting I changed the image to just a small piece of filament  snagged in the rocks, hence the title, " Snag". This is another image I used for my students in class this last spring and it gave me the opportunity to re-evaluate  the composition. It became as much a leaning tool for my students as  myself and I am glad I went back down this road. The study to left painted for the first time  in oils was something I had always intended  but never got around to. I suppose I lost interest in the subject I am not really sure, but one thing is always certain my students take me to places I never thought I might go.

 "Snag" Oil on Panel 14 inches x 11 inches 

Philip J. Carroll Artist: Long Gone

Philip J. Carroll Artist: Long Gone:                                                         Here's an landscape I have done before and one I used this spring for my stud...

Long Gone

                                                       

Here's an landscape I have done before and one I used this spring for my students to paint as a fresh challenge  . I often have them paint from images that  I am working on in the studio, I find it helps to be personally involved with  a subject  before I one can truly teach others how to paint the scene. The image is one of a couple of  abandoned fishing shacks on a very secluded road near Tuckahoe NJ.

             

                                                                      " Long Gone" Oil on Panel 10 inches x 20 inches

 It no longer exists and was torn down years ago hence the name "Long Gone". I never had any photos of the scene just a small thumbnail water color study which gave me all the information I needed to create the painting. I will probably do this scene over and over again in my lifetime for the simple reason that every time I look at it I see something new .

" Linens" from The Coudersport Series

 This was a painting I just finished and one which I had my students try their hand at  last semester. I often give my students images to work on that I myself am painting or contemplating painting in the studio.

Laundry hanging on the line in the fresh air seems like a  magical ritual for me a throw back to when I was

" Linens" , Oil on Panel , 28 inches x 40 inches

young . It is something I see at the shore all the time in the summer but I had not seen it used on a daily basis for many years. It was for me the perfect subject and represented the slower, quiet way of life in this area.

" Coudersport Condos"

" Coudersport Condos " is certainly a chuckle for me when I look at this painting  as I am always asked why would I want to paint a bird house? I say :"Why Not!" , Society has always constructed bird houses which can be  in the form of a simple box or a sophisticated architectural achievement.What ever the reason this

 "Coudersport Condos", Oil on Panel 12 inches x 24 inches

 condo for birds spoke to me as a modern dwelling that was rather out of place in its surroundings.  A sculpture carefully crafted and thoughtfully designed which represented a very clear mind set of the quite community I was visiting.

  

" Morning Mist" Coudersport Adventures

    Painting new works takes time as you sift through your sketches, images and the contemplate the various decisions one must make to complete a work. So even though I am writing  new blogs and working on videos about the process that leads one to a finished painting or work of art I am not always as  prolific as I would like to be . So I thought I would begin to post new images as they enter the world and blog at a later time in more depth as I finish the ones as yet unpublished.

 " Morning Mist" Oil On Panel, 18 inches x 24 inches

   So here is one from my Coudersport series  titled: " Morning Mist", where I vacationed last summer with my wife Jackie. Coudersport is a quite place at this time of year and we hiked this path  for 5 days every morning around 6 am.  I found I was never disappointed in the  abundant display of changing light and color that mother nature can bestow upon us. I am  humbled at the palette she has at her disposal  that seems to flow from her lips effortlessly all for us to merely enjoy.