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A Windy Day
Jan 22, 2016
A Windy Day (plein air). 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2016 Today, while our old home on the east coast is forecast to get 24"+ of snow, I managed to get out and paint on a beautiful, partly cloudy day at one of my favorite spots on Golden Beach in Ballard. I'm still trying to get the hang of the sea an...
Gloucestershire Old Spot
Jan 6, 2016
Gloucestershire Old Spot. 20x28, oil on linen. 2016 It's becoming a tradition that I start off the new year with a farm animal painting. In all honesty, I haven't seen any farm animals in Seattle yet, but I have enough reference photos from Virginia to let me do this for the next several centuries. ...
Capitol Hill Seattle
Jan 1, 2016
Capitol Hill, Seattle. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 This is the view from one of the windows in our apartment in Seattle, painted on a re-used linen panel that had been worn smooth by the sanding and re-priming. The abstract idea is a cityscape as a landscape: the field of buildings in place of a ...
More Beach Painting
Dec 29, 2015
Bainbridge Island (plein air). 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 Today I managed to get back to the beach for my last plein air effort of 2015. It was less windy than the last outing but still fairly cold. After my experiences on the first outing I made a knotted bag that can be filled with stones to k...
Painting at the Beach
Dec 23, 2015
After several days of rain I made the most of a brief break in the weather and went to paint at the local beach. It's just a ten minute trip from the studio but I can't think of a more challenging environment in which to set up an easel: it was cold, windy, it rained and the easel blew over. I ...
Bunny in Progress
Dec 22, 2015
Bunny (WIP). 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2015. It's been a while since I finished any new work so I jumped the gun and posted this one before completing it. This is done from the customer's own photograph. This first layer is painted directly over a (dried) raw umber block in and was done in one sess...