Monday, May 28, 2007

Yard Sale Plein air

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Catchy title eh? We had a yard sale Sunday and Monday of Memorial weekend. Spent all day Sunday twitling my thumbs do to the thousands who c...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Central Coast Skies

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This scene is really close to another I did titled "Nipomo Skies". It's the same general area and the ref photo taken the same...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Framed Vineyard Scene

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Art always looks better once it's framed...ALWAYS! Have you ever worked on a ppainting that, no matter what you tried, it just looked le...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Painting Clouds Part 1

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I like painting clouds...I'm getting better at it too. How do you get better?...paint lots of clouds. I'm not the expert but then ag...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

What's Your Opinion....

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I've touched this painting up since thinking I was finished with it a month or so ago. I thought the foreground highlighted trees didn...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Working the Gallery

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One of the places I show my work is at the Morro Bay Art Association Gallery in Morro Bay, about an hour and a half north of where I live. A...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

SUBSCRIBE ME!

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My friend and fellow Artist, Diane Cutter , mentioned to me that I should have a Subscription service here on my blog so she can be notifie...
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Jurors Award

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Carpenteria Foothills 12"x16" Oil on Ray Mar Panel I'm a member of the Artists Guild of the Santa Ynez Valley and we show our...
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The Studio....

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A long time ago, the High School years, my Dad suggested I take wood shop class. A great class to take for anyone who likes to build things ...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Refugio Vista

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In my attempts to teach myself to paint outdoors, Plein Air, I decided to tackle this scene. It is a view looking across the Santa Ynez vall...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Garden at Cambria 2

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I decided I liked the smaller 9"x12" Garden at Cambria painting so much that I decided to do a larger version of that painting on ...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Solvang Nocturne 1

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Nocturnes.....the first one I ever saw was one painted by Whistler...famed artist who painted what is commonly known as "Whistlers Moth...
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Garden at Cambria

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I visited the town of Cambria last year and naturally took a lot of pictures for futre reference material. I think as much as Plein Air pain...
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Eureka!

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I do have a love of fishing boats. So much so that I orginally began to paint as a means to see my drawings of boats become painted boats. T...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Experimenting with Video

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Click image to see video Hi There, I wanted to one day add a sound file to this blog but never got around to it. The other day I saw a video...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Backyard Plein Air

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Off Greenfield Oak 6"x8" Oil on Ray Mar Panel It was a nice warm day yesterday so I headed out in the backyard and tried another P...
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Pampas Grass

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Pampas Grass 12"x16" Oil on Masonite Panel This is a scene of the pampas grass that lines my driveway. The plumes of this grass ar...
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That Big Brown Oak Tree.....

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Alamo Pintado Oak 12"x16" Oil on Ray Mar Panel This oak was covered in a moss we get where I live and gave it'd color a browni...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Plein Air 2

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I'm always dreaming of painting outdoors. I can't think of anything more fun than to simply choose to go somewhere and sit down and ...
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Trying Underpainting

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"Hilltop Sunset" 5"x7" Oil on Canvas This image was my attempt using an underpainting, or tinted ground, under your brus...