Thursday, May 13, 2010

Sunset

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"Sunset" 6"x 6" Oil on Panel Trying out varying sky colors for evening scenes. Fun painting to do and took a record time...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Above Cachuma Nocturne

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"Above Cachuma Nocturne" 5" X 7" Oil on Panel SOLD After painting the recent Cachuma hills painting I decided to make a ...
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Monday, May 03, 2010

Catalina Trip

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I spent this last weekend over at Catalina Island painting wildflowers. I went over with painting buddy Rich Gallego. We left early saturday...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Hills Above Cachuma Lake

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"Hills Above Cachuma Lake" 5" X 7" Oil on panel This one came from a reference photo I had taken while on a hike near C...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Wildling Museum Auction

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Yesterday I attended the Wildling Museums annual BBQ fund raiser at Rancho Arbolado. I had donated a painting for the event that was to be ...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Nipomo Project

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" Nipomo Vista" 12" x 16" Oil on canvas I was one of 12 artists asked to participate in an event sponsored by the Dana A...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

New Frames

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"Manu Mele Aground at Santa Barbara" 12" X 24" Oil on Canvas I need to replace some frames for the gallery and they jus...
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Monday, April 12, 2010

California Oak

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"California Oak" 6"x6" Oil on panel A simple scene of an oak tree lining a valley. Oak and eucalyptus trees are two of...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Stream At Eaton

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"Stream At Eaton" 6" X 6" Oil on panel Thought I'd try a painting with running water in it. With all the rain we ha...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Santa Ynez Valley

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"Near Santa Ynez" 5" X 7" Oil on panel This little painting was one of those ones that go so fast you hardly had time t...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Into Spring

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"Spring Oak" 6"x6" Oil on panel Another small painting on 6"x6" panel. I really like how this one turned out....
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

A Moment

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"A Moment" 5x7 Oil on panel Another painting on the trial run of prepared boards. I wondered what it would like to paint on a sur...
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Little Rock

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" Little Rock Shadows" 5x7 oil on panel I recently drove out to the Mojave Desert heading for the roads just above the desert tow...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Spring In The Valley

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" Spring In The Valley" 9" X 12" Oil on canvas More work using a lot of the premixed colors from the previous painting t...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Painting Atmosphere

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This is an alla prima painting started and finished last night after dinner. I wish all paintings could be done alla prima. The trouble is t...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Eucalyptus

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"A Sketch....." This really wasn't a painting about a eucalyptus tree. This sketch was done to brush up on landscape work a...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Manu Mele Aground at Santa Barbara

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"Manu Mele Aground at Santa Barbara" 12" X 24" Oil on canvas This is another of the wrecked boats from out recent storm...
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Distance

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In between paintings I decided to get out a student board to practice some distance work. I wanted to just do a simple sketch pushing the di...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Demise of The Allegro, Santa Barbara

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" The Demise of the Allegro" 16" X 20" Oil on canvas The Allegro is one of 12 boats that were washed ashore on East beac...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Along Valley Walls

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"Along Valley Walls" 12" X 24" Oil on canvas Going wide again...this is a 12"x24" painting. I like the wide f...