A Painter's Year - Susan Abbott

14" x 14", oil on linen panel Taking a break from some larger studio paintings to take a look at what's outside right now.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/10/2/wild-apples-mums-and-letter

15.5" x 14", watercolor on Arches paper A quintessential Vermont farmhouse, on an ideal summer day.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/8/26/kates-porch

12" x 16", oil on linen panel One of those perfectly beautiful, perfectly ordinary (meaning owned and taken care of by "regular" people who love them, not landed gentry) places we are lucky to ...

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/8/24/adelaides-pond-august-afternoon-1

12" x 16", oil on linen panel My demonstration painting on the last day of the VT landscape retreat. We're having a heat wave here, so I needed to find something to paint from a shady spot.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/8/20/grape-vine-and-garden-fence

12" x 16, oil on linen panel A good memory of being outdoors, feeling the breeze and sun, in the French countryside.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/7/18/farm-track-through-olive-groves-provence

14" x 20", watercolor on Arches paper A demonstration for the workshop on painting vistas. I used a limited palette of Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue and Aureolin.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/7/13/demo-from-les-bassacs

14" x 20", watercolor on Arches paper Standing at the edge of a field, with a view of distant mountains, on the way down from the lovely little hill village of Villars.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/7/9/field-below-villars-provence

14" x 20", watercolor on Arches paper Looking down from a pine grove on the closest village to Les Bassacs.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/7/6/above-st-saturnin

10" x 10", oil on linen panel A view across a valley of vines that's down the hill from the hamlet of Les Bassacs.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/7/1/vineyard-and-olive-grove

"A Painter's Year" is Vermont artist Susan Abbott's blog of daily landscape and still life paintings, her nstructive ideas about working in oil and watercolor, and her travel sketchbooks from Paris, Provence, the Bahamas, Maine, and other locations around the world.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/29/alley-in-viens

14" x 20", watercolor Ruins, a park, and sun and shadows at the top of a steep climb up a hill town.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/23/at-the-top-of-bonnieux

12" x 16", oil on linen panel Back to paint again in the fields behind Les Bassacs.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/23/path-through-the-vineyard

6" x 6", oil on linen panel Bought from the farmer at the little market in St. Saturnin.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/20/apricots-in-a-blue-bowl

12 x 16", oil on linen panel A path behind Les Bassacs takes you to fields, orchards, groves and vineyards—one of my favorite places to paint here.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/19/vineyard-late-afternoon

12" x 12", oil on linen panel Another brilliant day for painting outdoors here in Provence.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/18/cloud-shadows-and-lavender

10" x 10", oil on linen panel A place that's both dramatic and intimate.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/18/under-the-cliff-lioux

19" x 14", watercolor  First painting day today, nice to be back in this beautiful place!

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/6/15/looking-out-from-joucas

8" x 8", watercolor on Arches paper Back in Paris again. Standing on the Pont des Arts, looking towards Notre Dame.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/5/18/seine-at-sunset

7" x 14", watercolor Color temperature studies painted with my workshop.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/3/27/side-street-morning-and-evening-eastport-maine

8" x 10", watercolor A workshop demo on complements, borrowing a composition from Wolf Kahn.

https://www.susanabbott.com/a-painters-year/2015/3/25/field-and-hedgerows