William Rea Artworks Gallery

• Approaching the Cordon camp

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14

• Shem Creek

  Oil, linen panel, 9 x 14.5

• Middleton place

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Redbuds afternoon

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 18. One of my first paintings.

• Atop Falling Spring Falls

  Oil, Panel, 20 x 16. Painted with a grayed triad of indigo, brown madder permanent, raw sienna, and of course, white. Except for a tiny accent of cadmium yellow. My first attempt at a limited palette.

• Roaring Run

  Oil, 20 x 16. Virginia has "picture-ready" magnificent cascades. The trick is to color-sketch and photograph them without being swept away! The greater challenge is to capture the colors of the shadowed boulders.

• Bales, Nocturne

  Oil, 16 x 20

• Snow storm

  Oil, Panel, 10 x 8. Snowstorms are rare here. This is the view from my front door. Thank goodness my front door is glass--I could paint a fierce storm, sipping hot chocolate! This is a studio version of the original.

• 100% chance at Poplar Forest

  Oil, 9 x 14.5

• Cary lake

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Chasing the green man from my untidy yard

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Overgrown sumac trees in our yard in mountainous Virginia. I saw a flicker of green in the shadows under the oak and poplar canopy. A bush moving in the breeze?...or a green man? Painted with knives.

• Cary

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Mountain morning, Virginia

  Oil, Panel, 14 x 11

• Under the tree

  Oil, 9 x 12

• Hidden Valley, October

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10

• Valhalla Vineyard, Fall

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 30

• Brunch, Interrupted

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Started plein aire until the featured cow took exception to my being on his side of the fence! Finished in the studio.

• Spring study

  Oil, Panel, 14 x 11