Introducing Reservoirscape… the second painting in my free-flowing landscape series.

Collectors Bryan and Alissa Jankay made a connection with the first, Africascape, and decided to commission their own. This painting was a hybrid of the original, as well as several sky-scapes I’ve photographed out East and at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir.

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I’m on a Kuf Knotz craze… the Clocks Tickin’ — check out Kuf Knotz, there, on Twitter and Instagram.

Starting OG — Sharpie on the shrink rap.

Getting in there with charcoal… drawing shapes and forms.

The under painting… bright, hot, real.

Compressed charcoal time… ever hear the yarn about Abraham Lincoln teaching himself math on the back of a shovel with charcoal?

Flowing blues. Deep and rich.

The upper portion of the sky is that moment when the clouds appear to be burning upward.

Laying down the greens which were all mixed from the same blue as the sky. Even though that under painting is almost gone, somehow, it seeps through the fibers.

Glowing hills… one of those things in life I never knew I loved until I started painting them.

Ah yes, the lay-it-on-the-line portion of the process… going in with electric light blues and creating hi-drama in the skies.

The foreground reminds me of running switchback style throughout the painting.

I felt strongly about punching up the highlights in some of the blue hills and mountains, so I did.

When I took this baby outside to snap this photograph, a gentleman inquired, “if you were in this painting right now, where would you be and what would you be doing?”

Great question. I’d be under the fifth tree from the left of the canvas, by the water, eating lunch and drinking a cold beer. Make that several beers.

A big huge thank you to Alissa and Bryan for commissioning this work — here’s hoping you enjoy living with it as much as I enjoyed creating it.