Stopped in My Tracks
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on Archival Paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This piece is from a series of paintings created in November 2021, inspired by several hikes through areas of Big Cypress Preserve.
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Outlier
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This piece is from a series of paintings created in November 2021, inspired by several hikes through areas of Big Cypress Preserve.
Back to Basics
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This piece is from a series of paintings created in November 2021, inspired by several hikes through areas of Big Cypress Preserve.
Standard Measure
Sold Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This pastel drawing is one of several completed over a period of weeks in the studio, after a series of end of year hikes in Big Cypress Preserve in Ochopee, Florida. Rather than faithfully reproduce a scene from photographs, I’m interested in creating a sense …
Big Cypress Majesty
Sold Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by visits to Big Cypress Preserve. I was interested in composing a sense of place that was composed in the moment of painting rather than faithfully rendering reality. Hikes in Big Cypress are often about transitions from shade to light, wet to …
Open Wide
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by a series of walks through Big Cypress Preserve. Drawn mostly from imagination, I was attempting to capture the sense of light reflecting off of the various cypress trees I remember from my hikes.
Finding My Way
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by a series of hikes through Gatorhook Strand during the winter of 2021. Although this piece looks “loose” and quickly done, I worked and reworked it for weeks trying to capture the ethereal sense I feel when hiking in …
Tranquility at Skillet Strand
Sold Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2021 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by a series of hikes from 2018 – 2021 in Skillet Strand at Big Cypress Preserve.
Gatorhook Strand Walk
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel©2021 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by a series of swamp walks through Gatorhook Strand during the winter of 2020-2021. In this piece the natural tone of the paper plays an important role in conveying a sense of space and light. Although the cypress are painted in a …
Massachusetts
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on paper©2020 Tom Weinkle One fall, I spent a week or so exploring waterfalls in Western Massachusetts. A short hike through forests was usually required. That old adage about journey vs. destination still comes to mind.