Here are the pencils of a new watercolor painting that will be part of the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival this coming Saturday. More to come.

Swampy’s Florida Prints – Picnic at Biscayne Bay.

Here’s the last of the nine watercolor paintings of Biscayne Bay beach set. This was the last one I needed to finish and I only found time today to do it. This wraps up the set and will show all nine when they are set for the gallery catalog they are going in.

Getting near finished with the nine part series! Here’s another finished! More to come!

Here’s a painting I finished while here at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in The Coliseum in St. Petersburg. This is one part of a three part set …. which is part of a nine part series. More to come.

Over the last three hours been in a corner of the ol’ Chelsea Coffee Shop working frantically on getting six watercolor paintings done. Close, but no cigar. Will show a few as they are completed.

Hunkered down in a coffee shop working on the next Swampy’s Florida book: Swampy’s Florida: Doolittle Raiders at Eglin Air Force Base.

This for the, what has been labeled as of this past weekend, the last reunion of the members of the Jimmy Doolittle Raiders. The event takes place April 17th through the 20th in Fort Walton Beach.

This Swampy book has a bit of history of Fort Walton Beach, Eglin Air Force Base and of the heroes of the Doolittle Raid. Lots of drawings of historic B-25s, other World War II aircraft and aircraft carriers.

Here are the first three of a series of three beach side watercolor paintings I’m doing for a gallery catalogue. Above is a close up.

I had the opportunity to paint these in Julianne’s Costal Cottage during the Mount Dora Arts Festival. Her store’s theme is also beachy which helped get me in more of a beach mood to paint.

Just chug-a-lugged out eleven pencil drawings of a series of beach scenes I’ll be doing later in February.

Stopped for dinner at Ashley’s Restaurant in Rockledge, Florida, for dinner and to get a little work done. Ate a fine prime rib and got the 11 drawings done in two hours and a half!

More to come as I work on each. Suffice it to write that I’ll be using lots of yellow ochre and cerulean blue!

I’m attending a meeting right now to help redevelop the iconic Florida tourist attraction, Silver Springs, I penciled this one of ten beach illustrations I need to have done in the next week.

Got the prep work done a couple days ago. Added watercolor while painting live during the Art Walk in Mt Dora at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage. I still need to work on details in the illustrations to get it to pop out more.

Penciled this during a meeting tonight as I prep for a series of watercolor paintings I need to get done. It’s part of a Swampy’s Florida series that will soon be available to interior designers through a Miami company. There will be two series. One much like this of Florida locations and Florida critters. The other series is of beach scenes around the state.

This is just the pencils of the artwork. Next I prep the art to be watercolored. I’ll be painting the art  this Friday during the Art Walk in Downtown Mt. Dora, Florida, at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage store. I’ll be doing it live. If you’re in the area, please come by and say ‘Hello!’.

I did the penciling during a meeting of the Springs Alliance which I’m involved with. Certainly an appropriate time to be working on artwork about the Rainbow River.

This is from a photo taken by a friend of a half fallen cypress tree on the Rainbow River in Marion County, Florida