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Some Fall Studies - Exploring Color in the Fall Landscape
Nov 3, 2016
Fall Study I. 5x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Fall Study 2. 5x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 These are a couple of studies I've done to explore some ideas for a new painting. I'm trying to create something that will fit a frame that's currently on an older, unsold work. Since I had some opportunity to...
Lupine Meadow From a Study
Oct 27, 2016
Lupine Meadow. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2016 This is another painting that I've done from one of the "sketch marathon" set of studies. I put this one off for a while as I wanted to work on something larger that I thought would be more interesting. However, that one turned out to be a scraper while ...
North Bluff From a Study
Oct 23, 2016
North Bluff. 9x12, oil on linen. 2016 In the early summer I worked on a series of sketches and studies, trying to complete one or two small paintings every day over the course of a month. In addition to using them as a learning exercise, my original goal was to eventually turn some of them into larg...
Meadow Land. A Re-Worked Painting
Sep 16, 2016
Meadow Land. 6x11 approx., oil on linen panel. 2016 Over the course of the year the reject pile in my studio has grown ever larger. Even though I often purge it of the truly bad stuff, it still holds more work than I'd like. To this end, I decided to split the pile into four smaller groups: Things ...
Study: Mid Winter Sky
Sep 12, 2016
Mid Winter Sky. 5x10 ? oil on linen panel. 2016 This is one of those little sketches that I have sitting around the studio (actually, I have a pile of them) that I occasionally pull out and use as a reference. It's not a painting that I think I will ever sell: not only is it kind of abstract, it's a...
Plein Air Washington at the Center for Wooden Boats
Sep 10, 2016
Wooden Boats (plein air). 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2016. Saturday was my first chance to get out and paint with Plein Air Washington. We painted at the Center for Wooden Boats which is right on the south shore of Lake Union in Seattle. This painting is an example of why I usually try to avoid man-m...