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A Very Gray Day
Mar 2, 2016
Gray Day. 9x12, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016. Rapidly changing conditions and lack of light made for difficult painting conditions today. In retrospect, the cold wax medium also made the painting harder to execute. There's something about this season that can make overcast gray skies f...
Puget Sound Looking North
Feb 24, 2016
Puget Sound North (plein air). 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 This high key sketch was done on the beach in Ballard (again!). This view catches my eye every time I go to the beach - over the water the north sky often has a pale blue cast that tends towards orange at the horizon. This was done en...
Ridgeline (plein air)
Feb 22, 2016
Ridgeline (plein air). 10x8, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016. Since I moved to Seattle, I've had the chance to paint on location several times over the winter. Because the beaches are so accessible, I've painted mostly seascapes. Even though I went to the beach again today I took a different v...
Discovery Park
Feb 16, 2016
Discovery Park. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2016. This painting was done on the beach at Discovery Park in Magnolia. There's a really picturesque lighthouse there which I'll get around to painting some other time. By the time I started working the view across the sound was into the light and the sky ...
Great Northern’s Salmon Bay Bascule Bridge
Feb 9, 2016
Ballard Rail Bridge (plein air). 12x9, oil on linen panel. 2016 Are there some things that you feel compelled to do, but every time you try they end up kicking your butt? I think everybody has at least one. For me it is painting engineering structures. Having been educated as an engineer, I loo...
By the Trains at Carkeek Beach
Feb 2, 2016
At Carkeek Beach. 9x12, oil and cold wax medium on linen panel. 2016 After getting an early start in the studio and putting in a few hours of painting I headed to the beach at Carkeek Park just north of Ballard. There were few clouds in the sky so I was able to make the painting about the ...