Colors energize my daily walks. The routine of observing color relationships combines with thirty years of plein-air painting to make nature a source for color.

“Taking a line for a walk” is a well known description of drawing by Paul Klee. I consider my daily course: walking to take in color.

I am drawn to shorelines, marshes, and dunes where an expanse of sky clearly meets the earth.

Each "Landscape Study" displays the color relationship of a moment. I pause in my walk to record the colors from the top of the sky to the land at my feet.

The accumulation of these “Landscape Studies” form a calendar, a progression of not only observations, but of my deliberate practice of color mixing.

Clear and Cool

Spring Rain

Greening Up

Jenkin's Bog

Late March

Whistleberry

Savannas, Florida

Flanked by Warm Light