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Todd Anderson

@toddandersonart.bsky.social

New England based Watercolorist. https://toddandersonart.com

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Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 4d ago

Armory in Hoosick Falls, NY. Direct Watercolor, 20"x16" #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of an armory in Hoosick Falls, New York. The red brick armory building comes in from the left with multiple column extensions cone-topped on weathered green roofs. Thin windows run the length of the columns vertically, while arched windows adorn the flat facade to the left. Fencing runs in the foreground to the right with green ivy covering most and creeping along the top bar. Another building, covered in shade sets to the right. The bright blue sky hangs above as sunlight drenches the armory with orange, heightening the red brick.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 6d ago

Summers on Manteo. Direct Watercolor, 20"x16". #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of some buildings in downtown Manteo, North Carolina. A large red brick building stands to the right, dwarfing a smaller, single story brick building on the left with a grey-green asphalt roof and small widow's peak rising in the center. The large building on the right has multiple floors of arched white trim windows reflecting back the haziness of the blue Summer sky. White railings line its two lower floors with stairs to the left. The building on the left is half covered in shadow from the larger building and has several rectangular windows and entries with white trim. Buntings hang from the railings, remnants of a celebration.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last wk.

North Main Street, Salem. Direct Watercolor, 20"x16". #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of buildings along North Main Street in Salem, New York. A large red brick building with a peaked roof and ornate white wood trim sets on the left. It has two arched windows in white trim on its second floor below a large white oval plaque. On the ground floor, an entry with a sharp white canopy casts a shadow on windows and doors. To its left, a flag hangs limp in front of a storefront window. To the right of the brick building is a multiuse yellow stucco building with upper floor apartments and a ground floor storefront - its windows and entry covered in shade from a yellow and red stripes awning.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friday Morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a cottage in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. A small cottage with white, wooden shudders sets amongst the dunes and grass below a bright, hazy summer sky.

Gray-scale marker drawing of the back of a convenience store in Millerton, New York. Shaded entries and exits crowd behind a store as metal chimneys rise before large trees covering the afternoon sky in the background. Staircases and discarded fencing catch the sun, creating cutouts of the shadows behind.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a church in Grandy, North Carolina. A white clapboard church with peaked roofs enters from the right, a small, enclosed steeple rising to the sky. On the ground floor, fencing runs along the foreground to a shaded entry. Two thin windows reside on the church facade. In the background, tall trees provide little shade from the bright sun.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nags Head Cottage. Direct Watercolor, 12"x9". Hazy summer day, today. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a cottage in Nags Head, North Carolina. A hazy, blue summer sky hangs above a wooden shingled cottage in the Outer Banks along Route 12. Its red roofs hang an overcast shadow against blue shuddered windows. A single white sheet hangs in the weak breeze before the cottage and above a foreground of grass and sand.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another sketchbook finished. Really enjoyed doing gray scale marker sketches in this pocket sized sketchbook the past several months 🙂 #drawing #marker #sketch

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dawn on Main Street, Mystic. Direct Watercolor, 12"x9" #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a building along Main Street in Mystic, Connecticut. A cool blue shadow creeps up the facade of a building, its pastel clapboard discolored by the orange sun of the day coming. The upper level apartments have a set of windows, reflecting back the brightness from their indoor shades. The ground level storefront sets in shadow with cut outs of the sun reflecting back fliers and signs. Running along the foreground is a sidewalk separator and street, darkened by shadows.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thursday Morning value sketches. These markers are drying up. Think it's time to grab some more... can't complain about an excuse to visit the store 😊 #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a home in Salisbury, Vermont. A dilapidated front porch sags under discarded items, as a white sign is nailed to a post holding up its roof. A single second story window resides on the facade of the house that joins the lower level porch and entry. Above the window, a chimney rises with thick tree coverage in the background.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a multi-purpose colonial house in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. A large, imposing house with ornate trim fills the space, its upper level covered in arched shadow, revealing a small portico window. Below it, several windows with ornate overhangs are scattered across the house's facade. The ground floor has spaced out entries with small porches, covered in angled shadows from a noon sun above.

Gray-scale marker drawing of an old church in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. A small bellower rises in the center, with square cutouts below a steeple. To the left, a tall, thin chimney rises at the meeting of roofs. To the right, a small portico window sets above the roof of a porch providing an entry covered in shadow. The ground level has various white fencing and banisters.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tuesday Morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a street lined with houses in Brighton, Massachusetts. A large, imposing and leafless tree stands guard in front of a row of houses along a street leading to the horizon on the right. Light snow covers the lawns as a bright winter sun brightens up the side of each house, rising from the left and behind the viewer. While making the border for the sketch, the person doing the sketch dropped his marker and left a mark on the right, out of frame.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a house in East Hebron, New York. Light asphalt roofing covers two sections of a single floor home as large trees and brush huddle in the background. A small covered entry reside on the right center, with cement stairs and various objects littering the foreground. A steel pipe for fire exhaust separates the garage - to the left - from the house.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a small white clapboard church behind a short house. To the left a portion of the house is seen, with a small front porch and window covered in summer shade from its roof. Behind it and to the right are steps leading to a small church encased in bushes. A bell tower rises from its entry, with arched windows and capped with a small round dome.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Grain elevators on Exchange Street. Direct Watercolor, 12"x9", 140lb. Back staring at all the used equipment and aging facilities on a hazy summer day. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of silos and grain elevators along Exchange Street in Middlebury, Vermont. Tall, thin, steel silos rise clumped together in the center of the scene beneath a hazy blue summer sky. Before them, gray and white sheds and storage containers mingle in the area. To the right, a large, rusted red drum leans against a white office with a single window. In the foreground is dirt and gravel.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Civil Twilight on Mystic. Direct Watercolor, 20"x16". #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a building just over the drawbridge in Mystic, Connecticut. A two story building settles into the evening covered in the pall of dusk and illuminated by external spot lighting and bright internal lights from the interior of an ice cream shop on the bottom floor. The second floor of the building has a set of windows with varying degrees of shade drawn. To the left, the clapboards of the upper floor are eliminated by the spotlight of the shop. Inside the brightly lit shop, various shapes in warm yellows and reds crowd around some seated figures. Running horizontally in the foreground is a girder from the bridge - painted in turquoise, darkened by the ensuing night and lightly illuminated by hellcat headlights from the right and out of view. Some lights from the shop light up a slightly damp road, running thinly at the bottom of the frame.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Sunday Morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a home in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. Large flat shadows collect where facades join on a two-level house with a screened in front porch. To the right a sidewalk leads to a ground level entrance below where the sun cuts through to reside in upper level windows and roofs, topped with a chimney.

Gray-scale marker drawing of an equipment barn along Route 7 in New Haven, Vermont. A large white barn with a steep, half-octaganal roof stands in the center of the scene, soaking in the sun as bushes and a large lawn hug its bottom story hiding windows and entrance ways. Signs and indescript lettering run along the front while more brush and trees clutter the background behind the barn.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a large white clapboard house in Vergennes, Vermont. The lower and left-side of a large house is seen with a ground level deck and railings while dark angular shadows cut to the right under an overhang covering large slender windows on the first floor. A triplet of windows sits on the second floor, drenched in the sun. A side walk runs horizontally in the foreground.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Main Street from the Drawbridge, Mystic. Direct Watercolor, 20"x16". #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of buildings along Main Street in downtown Mystic, Connecticut. A tall yellow building stands behind a two-level pale green, wooden clapboard building with peaked roofs and second story arched windows. The ground floor of the building has large storefront windows reflecting back reds and yellows of their interior. A large, cool shadow cast from the drawbridge, behind the viewer, falls upon the buildings, leaving holes between its iron work for the sun to poke through.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Final push of watercolors for the #30x30directwatercolor challenge for June. Definitely got into fatigue, but better to focus on that than doubt - which is what I had been facing before June... #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Photograph of watercolor paintings set upon a dark gray carpet. Nine small pieces form a slight arch over a larger piece.

Watercolor painting of Old South Church in Boston. The bright orange sun lights up the stone facade on the left, its rose window above slender arched windows and a street access entry. Rounding the corner to its facade on the right, covered in cool blue purple shadows, a crowd gathers below the church's towering form, topped with a blue green dome.

Watercolor painting of Rue Saint-Louis in Quebec. The ochre stone building is half covered in the rising morning sun, its lower half cut into shapes of shadows from opposing buildings. A couple walks together in shadows below a small domed column protruding from a corner of the building. A bright blue sky hangs above the snow covered roofs.

Photograph of all the paintings completed by the author for the 30 by 30 direct Watercolor challenge in June, 2026. All 30 paintings are laid out in a grid on a dark gray carpet.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Early Morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a barn in Cornwall, Vermont. A tall wooden barn stands to the left with a faded, gray wooden-slat facade, and ladders and hay shoots emanating from its upper window. To the right a small structure with a steel roof gives into dilapidation. Behind them, a silo stands before a dark hill.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a columned, front entrance to a white clapboard house in Middlebury, Vermont. The bright sun - above and to the left - casts a large shadow under the roof of the entrance and along the facade, cutting angles and draping dark windows. Above, a window rests in the sunlight, flanked by its open shutters.

Gray-scale marker drawing of apartments in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. Two boxy, white buildings are joined in the center, as a low wooden ramp leads the entrance of the left building. A long, enclosed staircase rises to the second floor of the building on the right, while a car is parked in the lot in the foreground.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · last mo.

Warehouse off Exchange Street. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16" There is this - I am guessing - abandoned warehouse outside of town that is just a cacophony of large, used plastic containers, steel and canvas, buckets and wires. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a menagerie of used and abandoned objects outside a warehouse. A tall rectangular, steel structure rises on the left with a series of ladders, railing and wires traveling down to the roofing of a warehouse. On the foreground before the warehouse is a square structure with steel roofing, bent and clinging to cloth, revealing an empty wooden interior. To its right are stacks of used plastic tubs peaking out from a recessed overhang.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another week's output from the #30x30directwatercolor challenge for June. Losing the plot a bit as I struggle between "enough" and "what can I get away with." #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Photograph of seven small watercolor paintings laid upon a gray carpet.

Watercolor painting of a building and cafe crows at the intersection of Spui and Singel in Amsterdam. A building with a steep pinched roof stands painted in pastel lavendar, small windows hovering above big bay windows of the ground floor cafe - its patrons in half shadow from table canopies.

Watercolor painting of a home along Quarry Road in Middlebury, Vermont. The sharp morning sun illuminated the right-side facade of a multilevel home with red asphalt roofs and tall, slender chimneys. Its front is bathed in cool shadow as darkened windows dot its facades.

Watercolor painting of a building in Scheveningen, The Hague. A brick building with a tall slender, three story extension is covered in shadows from both a building behind the viewer but also from its extension. The shadows fall at an angle, to the right and toward the ground as the sun lights its brick facade and orange tile roof .The windows within the shadows are illuminated with yellow reflected light, while the one window at the top floor of the extension is left to reflect back the blue sky.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Canopies on Korte Molenstraat, The Hague. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16". #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela #directwatercolor

Watercolor painting of a multilevel building along Korte Molenstraat in the old city of The Hague, Netherlands. Three stories of orange and white striped canopies are extended over upper level apartments and a ground floor cafe. The bright morning sun falls on the upper third floor facade and partly down the second floor, the under reflection of orange strips streaming down its windows. The ground floor cafe is covered in cool blue shadow, its large windows pasted with fliers and lightly lit interior.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Output from another week of #30x30directwatercolor challenge for June. #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Photograph of either watercolor paintings scattered on a gray carpet.

Watercolor painting of a smoked mackerel meal. The mackerel lays twisted - left for bones, skin and head - on a crinkled paper setting on top of a brown table. A Delft blue painted vases rest above it, holding down the paper.

Watercolor painting of a crowd hanging out in the bright sun on a street corner in downtown Lagos, Portugal. The bright sun cast a stark light flowing from the left, onto the crowd - dressed in white tees and jeans - and up against an opposing white wall of a business. Cold shadows fall along the street and merchants leading to the horizon in the center of the scene, as other buildings rise to the sun in the distance.

Watercolor painting of a canal farm house in The Hague, Netherlands. A wooden farm structure - its facades painted brown - rests before a canal leading from the viewer and to the right. Topping the farm structures are bright orange roof tiles with eave trimmings. The bright sun coming from the right casts angular shadows separating the farm buildings.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Early morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a doorway in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. An ornate arched doorway is flanked by fluted columns. The trim and door are painted all white against a light painted brick facade of a building. On both sides of the entry are slender windows with white sash. Leading to the entry are brick steps with lined shadows from the railing and trees behind the viewer. The sun, high and bright above to the right, casts angular shadows from the entryway down and to the left along the facade.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a large tree along Weybridge Street in Middlebury, Vermont. A tree stands triumphantly, slightly to the right, three main trunks rising from its base. Shadows from upper limbs cross its lower trunks as it casts its own shadow along the front lawn of a business - line in white picket fence, its windows huddled in shade below angular asphalt roofs.

Gray-scale marker drawing of businesses lining Merchant Row in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. A sidewalk wends its way up the left to the horizon, catching blocky angular shadows from the businesses to the right as the sun sets higher behind them. A jumble of mixed use buildings clamor together with no real unifying style as they have been added onto each other through the years. A pointy steeple rises in the back, as does a chimney to the right. Iron fencing runs out of view in the lower right of the scene.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Warm enough in Vermont to switch from my flannels to tshirts I haven't seen in a while (I run cold). Jamesway #iykyk

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Smoked Herring with Urn. Direct Watercolor. 10"x7". I miss grabbing simple meals from the Botermarkt in Haarlem. Part of the #30x30directwatercolor challenge this June. #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela #stilllife

Watercolor painting of a smoked Herring carcass, twisted showing its skin and bones. As it lays upon an opened rectangular and creased white wax paper, a dish sets to its right with its meat. Holding down the paper, set upon a brown table, is an urn decorated in blue Delft ornamentation.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A few more follow up on the #30x30directwatercolor challenge this June. Been able to keep up, mostly in the morning. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a house on Methodist Lane in Middlebury, Vermont. A large, multi-story colonial house with peach siding, sets before a bright green lawn, its stories stacked at random heights with small asphalt tiled roofing above various windows, some half open.

Watercolor painting of a building on the campus of Middlebury College in Vermont that is in the style of a German chateau. A broad, bare white wall, draped in a cool blue shadow joins a corner in the center of the scene with another wall covered in warm yellow sun. Both are lined with red brick. The right hand wall has lower level arched brickwork around arched windows, reflecting back the blue sky. The upper levels have brick lined dormers shutting from under slate roofing.

Watercolor painting of a train stop waiting enclosure in Brookline Village, Massachusetts. The red slated roofing of the train enclosure soaks in the warm sun as its wooden interior is hatched in shadows cast from the supporting posts. An electrical pole rises in the right, casting an angular shadow across the roof. In the distance - and seen from the interior windows of the enclosure - are various other buildings and businesses.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sold! While a bit sad I may never see this one again, I am thrilled to hear that "Evening on Parliament Street, London" is going to a new home. You can see it at the 2026 TWSA International exhibition held at Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin before August 2nd, 2026.

Watercolor painting of large buildings along Parliament Street during the evening in London, England. Bright orange interior lighting from an establishment spills out into the cold street and mixes with exterior lighting from lampposts casting yellow light and alternating warm and cool shadows along the buildings. In the upper right is a cool blue evening sky hanging above the city.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have embarked on the #30x30directwatercolor practice for the month of June. Focused on smaller pieces (7"x10") and shorter time and forgotten brushes and perhaps colors. Here are the first 3. We'll see if I can keep up... #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a waterfall in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. Sunlight kisses greenery on the left, above damp rocks in ochres and oranges. On the right, a small waterfall enters a pool of water, casting a small mist in the center of the scene.

Watercolor painting of the side of a barn structure in Weybridge, Vermont. Two buildings join in the center of the scene, the one on the left is shorter with fan equipment protruding between windows. The one on the right is taller with a set of windows catching shadows around its trim. Both buildings have a rusted, steel roof, casting a cool blue shadow below its eaves.

Watercolor painting of a barn and silo along Route 116 in Bristol, Vermont. The silo rises on the left while the barn is seen in slight oblique with its side facing the silo drenched in a warm shadow from the early morning Spring light blanketing the scene. In the foreground is grass and gravel below a dilapidated fence.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Evening Slagerij, Frederick Hendricklaan. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of a deli, closing up for the evening in The Hague, Netherlands. A dark purple pall covers a tall brick building with windows encased in thick white trim. Interior lights of a deli brighten the ground floor level in yellows and oranges as two butchers attend to the night's cleanup.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Early Morning value sketches. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a church in Waitsfield, Vermont. The scene is slightly titling to the right, as a broad, white clapboard church sets with its bell tower to the left. An arched window resides above the entry below the tower, while to the right are a series of windows on multiple levels, topped with a half-circle window.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a street in The Hague, Netherlands. A hazy afternoon blankets the building in low key light as ground floor storefronts welcome customers some shade. A big storefront window on the left shows fliers and wares, while a large canopy covers a store entry to the right. Large cylindrical windows reside above both storefronts, with a relief of a religious saint set in brick between them.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a large, leafless tree in front of a house in Moretown, Vermont. The house and its windows are drapes in shadows from the tree's limbs, rising from a bed of ivy on the right. Shadows run down and along the tree, cast from its own limbs.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mystic River Marina. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of the Mystic River Marina in Connecticut. A cold, Fall morning casts bright sunlight and cool shadows along a series of docks along the river. Houses crowd around a hill top in the back trying to catch warmth from the sun as orange foliage fills in the gaps between them. Painted in a loose, painterly style, strong horizontals and verticals assemble the scene.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Operator House, Mystic River Bridge. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press. #directwatercolor #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #aquarel #aquarela

Watercolor painting of the operator house beside the drawbridge crossing Mystic River. A tall, thin building facing the viewer directly, is bathed in mostly sunlight as a cool purple shadow from a building behind the viewer drapes itself on the left and upon a smaller structure behind the building. In the foreground is wooden railing above pilings and below seafaring wares - buoys, life rings, etc. in the background are tall brick buildings - their large windows reflecting back the bright blue sky.

Todd Anderson @toddandersonart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Overcast Afternoon value sketches. One barn, Three views. #drawing #marker #sketch

Gray-scale marker drawing of a barn in New Haven, Vermont. A tall, white barn stands at a slightly oblique view with steep angled, steel roofing. Several windows dot the facade as a silo stands behind it and to the right. A mix of lawn and gravel make up the foreground.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a barn in New Haven, Vermont. Facing directly to the viewer, the barn towers with gaping windows before a grassy and gravely foreground. Silos crowd in the background.

Gray-scale marker drawing of a barn in New Haven, Vermont. The backside of the tall white barn is seen, with its steep angled, steel roofing hanging above a large opening for equipment storage. A small silo stands guard at the entrance before a gravel, sloped driveway, giving way to some grass hugging the skirt of the barn.