The Art of Daniel Ambrose

  The sound of water running over rocks through hot summer days in the Appalachian mountains inspired this egg tempera painting, Travelin' Through. Cardinals, Crows and Scarlet Tanagers sing and call to one another in the tree canopy as deer pass silent along shore. I...

 Throughout summer, I have been working on a new Coastal Bird series of small oil paintings for Cheryl Newby Gallery. Here are three of them out of nine in the series so far.  

  After our American Tonalist Society inaugural show in New York City in May, we have been working on publishing our Shades of Gray catalog. However, I painted this egg tempera, Summer Song, and started a new Coastal Bird series I will share in a later post. I began...

  In the summer of 2016, three dear friends, Mary, Don, Eleinne and I sat around the dining room table of Nanatuck in Port Clyde, Maine discussing the contemporary plein air movement. Our talk turned towards previous schools of art that derived their inspiration from...