Ron Guthrie Art

A site dedicated to a continued effort to create and share my art. I create pen & ink drawings using mainly the stippling technique. I also paint in oils and am influenced by the California Impressionist school of painting.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Building a Show Easel

These are very cool easels with zip setup time. They cost a bit so I decided to just build one. I have seen them so all I did was just rough...

Garden Tour

We had a pretty good show, slow day but a good show. I say good because we had no wind, no troubles and all of the artists had great setups ...

Friday, June 01, 2007

Small Works Painting

I'm going to be participating in a Garden Tour show. These are shows that Guilds have where artists show some of their works in the back...

Shell Beach Rocks

I did this one recently in order to get better at painting rocks along the California coast. I don't do many scenes with rocks in them s...

Monday, May 28, 2007

Yard Sale Plein air

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...

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Central Coast Skies

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...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Framed Vineyard Scene

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...

Monday, May 14, 2007

Painting Clouds Part 1

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...

Thursday, May 10, 2007

What's Your Opinion....

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...

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Working the Gallery

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...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

SUBSCRIBE ME!

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...

Jurors Award

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...

The Studio....

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 ...

Friday, April 27, 2007

Refugio Vista

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...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Garden at Cambria 2

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 ...

Monday, February 12, 2007

Solvang Nocturne 1

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

Garden at Cambria

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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About Me

Ron Guthrie: I paint primarily landscapes in oils. My work is influenced by the early California impressionsist painters and a host of contemporary painters. I seek to capture light and atmosphere in my work and love the challenge. I work both in the studio as well as en plein air. I am a member of The California Art Club, Oil Painters of America and am also involved with the Coast Guard Art Program.

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